I'll chop this up a bit to answer:
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No pun intended.
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some digital video restoration (something which should be a natural extension of my photo retouch work in Photoshop--hopefully
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Indeed, yes, it will be.
If nothing else, you won't be asking a stupid question like "Where's the restore check box?" From your time in Photoshop, you've surely learned that you'll be using many different filters. Some are in-software, some are third-party plugins. Beyond that, you've probably run into tasks that Photoshop could not do, even with plugins. Hence, you've been forced to use other software. Video is the same.
Your knowledge of stills will assist a bit.
I was restoring photos and audio at least 5 years before I was doing any video restoration. And to me, it felt like a natural extension. It was hard, and requied much learning, but still an extension.
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I am using a machine with Win XP Pro which I will finally upgrade to Service Pack 3 this weekend
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Why? I use SP1 and SP2 for myself. Nothing was broken, no reason for SP3. Indeed, in my years, upgrading service packs often just loused things up. Good luck.
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It has an AMD 3 GB quad core processor
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Nice and fast. Most programs can only use 1-2 cores, however. So it may not be quite as fast as you'd hoped.
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2gb soon to be 6GB memory
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Unless you're using a 64-bit version of Windows, you won't get to use more than about 3GB to 3.75GB, depending on the exact motherboard. Only 64-bit OS can use more than 4GB of RAM.
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two video cards running in tandem
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Dual monitors, I'm guessing? I've done this, but it mostly just got in the way of work. I'm much happier just using a larger single monitor -- a 22" or 24" LCD.
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I will be doing my editing in Vegas Pro 9 and I was wondering how much HD do you recommend for storage space whilst files are rendering
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It really depends on how much video you plan to edit at any given time. My main system has more about 7TB of space. My satellite systems all have at least 500GB of space, and those are small systems, no more than 1-2 projects (just 2-3 videos each, max) at any given time. Even my laptops are working towards 1TB.
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and what are some of the typical times for rendering video?
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That depends on the output formats. For MPEG-2 DVD, maybe 2 minutes for every 1 minute of video. It largely depends on the hardware (drive types, connections), the filters, the source codecs/resolution, and the output codecs/resolution. It's like asking "How long does it take to eat a cookie?" You could end up with a million different answers.
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Also are there any other support forums that are good for mining Vegas Pro information besides Videohelp.com.?
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Vegas is pro software. You won't really find too many users at videohelp, as it attracts mostly amateurs. (Not a knock at VH, I'm quite fond of that site, long-time user myself.) This site has some pro users, but most of us have gone the Adobe Premiere route. While I'd like to say "HERE! HERE!" it's really not true right now.
I don't really like the DMN forums, but that's one option:
http://www.dmnforums.com/cgi-bin/dis...=0&openclose=1
It's a slow site, and I swear they designed their forums in 1995. It's awful to browser.
Creative Cow has some software-specific forums:
http://forums.creativecow.net/
But they also use an ancient forum style that's hard to browse quickly. You'd think with the 3 zillion ads whored out on both side of the screen, not to mention the daily emails, that they could afford to migrate to something coded in this century.
The Sony forums surely have info on Vegas:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/default.asp
Again with bad navigation, however. Only 10 threads per page. Good grief. Ridiculous.
Videoforums.co.uk has a Vegas forum too, but they are mostly unanswered questions. Why? Well, VF has this asinine idea that nobody should post links as answers to threads. They want you to re-type an answer for the person. F- that. I would suggest many people agree with me.
Videomaker has tiny bit of Vegas info:
http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/
I might also mention that Vegas isn't really a tool for restoring video. It has some filters, yes, but many of them can be inferior to even filters found in
VirtualDub or TMPGEnc Plus. Vegas is a great editor, of course. Good NLE.
Hope that helps!
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