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@thepalalias - I figured out the best way to do it (Vegas 64-bit doesn't support stills rendering). If I use the send snapshot to clipboard it sends a bitmap (uncompressed) to the clipboard. Then I can paste it into Photoshop in any format I want.

@Meierhans read that before. If I find the time over the weekend I will test that. Just don't like the idea of adding more steps to the workflow...

Still, thanks for the advice!

That interview made it easy to stop once in a while.

@Cbrandin As long as the display resolution is 1:1, that is fine and you need look no further. :)

Just remember to set your project properties to 32-bit Full Range Gamma 2.222 to get the closest to the original, as any non-full range ones will of course output with video levels instead (which may be an issue, depending on what you are comparing). I have uploaded a lot of videos that were edited in 8-bit mode (which in btoh Vegas Pro and Platinum uses video levels instead of full-range) instead because I was not testing dynamic range.

Personally, I just keep the 32-bit and 64-bit versions installed for the AAF support in the 32-bit version, so if the 64-bit one does not support rendering an image sequence, you can do so with the 32-bit one.

@thepalalias - Thanks!

We are getting offtopic here. You can use cinematools to alter fps, then use audacity for stretching the audio, then remux. Adobe sound products can do the same even better. However bootcamp or parallels would be easier in this case. Dunno about out of the box solutions for OSX. Ok.. back to topic!

@bkmcwd The image quality on that sunset shot with power lines looks great. (The sample of "Valkyrie 444 TYPE-ZERO1") I will have to try this setting. Will test with both Lomo lenses and Panny 14-140. Thanks for all your work. You've got a really smooth image here - impressive stuff! How are you finding in-camera playback?

@Jim_Simon The one caveat being "as long as it is doing full 8-bit". I have not looked at whether Vegas supports 256 color or B&W PNGs but those would obviously throw away information.

But yes, thanks for emphasizing the point I was trying to make earlier: PNG 8-bit compression is lossless.

I ran some more tests with the DREWnet/Soft version of the patch.

One shot (at 24H) was a close up of a child splashing around in the pool. Doing some pixel peeping, I saw not one artifact, not one instance of macroblocking, despite the abundance of water droplets flying around at high speed. Every frame was pristine, artifact free and very film-like. This is sooooo much better than mere "AVCHD".

I can also report no errors at any off-speeed; 80%, 200% and 300% all worked fine.

Clips spanned just fine at 24H using a SanDisk Extreme 64 GB 95MB/s card. I tested this in full auto mode (P) in EX Tele, aimed at the children swimming, which afforded a lot of motion. There were no errors at all during recording. The spanned clips came into Premiere Pro CS6 without issue, and played back quite snappy without evidencing the 'spanned clips bug' so many others see in CS6.

various apocalypse now settings used - boom for the stuff at the end , although its a heavily compressed mpeg4 version so tbh doesn't really show what its like.... when i get round to it il do a proper film and render it proper , u still get a flavour this way though...

Postcard/s from France (Chalais Market) using Apocalypse Now 'Boom!' Flat 4 matrix Intra. This setting visually reminds me of using classic film stock. Voight 0.95 25mm.