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The Vancouver Sun Run 2008
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27. The Vancouver Sun Run 2008
4 months ago
Sunday April 20th, 2008 - I took part in the Vancouver Sun Run. I knew about the race from a timelapse movie I saw on a Vancouver blog:
temporaldistortions.blogspot.com/2007/04/vancouver-sun-run-time-lapse.html
...and I wanted to be part of this "largest 10k race in North America" (more than 59.000 people took part this year).
It was a nice experience to actually walk the streets of a downtown area like Vancouver.
I first rendered this video like I 'normally' do - but I really like the 'Magic Bullet Look'. However, MBL is not yet available for Sony Vegas, so I asked Eugenia vimeo.com/eugenia if she knew some other solution. As always, she had an answer that was helpful.
UPDATE: MBL now comes in a version for Sony Vegas: redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-looks/
This link: download.sonymediasoftware.com/current/extras/vegasmovielooks_hd.exe (right click and choose save destination as...
is one of the first versions of MBL and even better, it's free :) So, if you have Sony Vegas and want to try it out, go ahead. Download and install in default folder - Sony Vegas will automatically find it and add it (to video effects).
One thing you have to know, though, is that rendering times are multiplied by 20 or so - this 7 minute clip took 25 hours to render on my PC (AVCHD / mpeg4 files to WMV).
I used 'Bleach bypass' and 'Bronze' for this clip. I'm aware that I might have gone over the top here, but what the heck, I'm still a newbie :)
Let me know what you think.
temporaldistortions.blogspot.com/2007/04/vancouver-sun-run-time-lapse.html
...and I wanted to be part of this "largest 10k race in North America" (more than 59.000 people took part this year).
It was a nice experience to actually walk the streets of a downtown area like Vancouver.
I first rendered this video like I 'normally' do - but I really like the 'Magic Bullet Look'. However, MBL is not yet available for Sony Vegas, so I asked Eugenia vimeo.com/eugenia if she knew some other solution. As always, she had an answer that was helpful.
UPDATE: MBL now comes in a version for Sony Vegas: redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-looks/
This link: download.sonymediasoftware.com/current/extras/vegasmovielooks_hd.exe (right click and choose save destination as...
is one of the first versions of MBL and even better, it's free :) So, if you have Sony Vegas and want to try it out, go ahead. Download and install in default folder - Sony Vegas will automatically find it and add it (to video effects).
One thing you have to know, though, is that rendering times are multiplied by 20 or so - this 7 minute clip took 25 hours to render on my PC (AVCHD / mpeg4 files to WMV).
I used 'Bleach bypass' and 'Bronze' for this clip. I'm aware that I might have gone over the top here, but what the heck, I'm still a newbie :)
Let me know what you think.
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Rendering a 1 min clip (of AVCHD video) to HD .wmv (using Eugenia's output options) took 04.00 mins exactly. Using the built in colour correction in Vegas (pretty damned good, I reckon) the same file took 04.12 mins which is pretty good efficiency.
Using one instance of MB, the rendered file now took 10.12 mins, and with two instances (Bleach Bypass and Bronze) it took 18.23 mins (and for yet a further test of three instances of MB, it took 26.19 mins).
So for a seven minute HD file, my PC would take approximately 4.5 hours to render it with the two instances of MB that you used. Now either you're doing something very wrong (which I sincerely doubt) or I am doing something very right (which I definitely doubt :) or it's nothing more than a hardware issue, the most likely culprit being CPU power. Not knowing what you're using to render on, I can only tell you that I'm currently using a quad core Intel running at 2.4 wth 3 gigs of RAM. After looking at the Task Manager I can see that Vegas uses all four cores which might be the reason I'm getting pretty reasonable rendering times.
Hope that helps!
Oh, and I'm also convinced that with very careful use of the colout correction tools that come as standard with Vegas, 90% of what Magic bullet does is possible. So while I don't doubt it's ability, the amount of money they want for it is, to my mind, way out of proportion to what it does.
One last thing,if you look in the directory for that MB download ( download.sonymediasoftware.com/current/extras/ ) there's some very interesting stuff indeed!
Interesting indeed... I use Eugenia's settings for Vimeo too, so I'm not sure what the difference is. I'm on a Pentium D @ 3,4Ghz with 2 GB RAM.
I'm rendering a new video as I type and I can see that my CPU is only working at between 55 and 80 percent. When I render video without the MB plug-in it's at 90-100 percent all the time.
I'll have to look into that later...
Eugenia: Well it's free :) And, to be honest, it's fast enough (well, for me!) for normal HD rendering of short files. Oh, and many thanks for your instructions and tips, it's helped me enormously.
what music is it?
it's nice...
Dutch Rhythm Combo: "Bonaire"
Any help appreciated.
Great Videos by the way I'll be getting that camera soon.