I did try it and it sort of works but it does not seem to include any effects or project settings. I tried a 16x9 project with 16x9 material and 4x3 material cropped to 16x9 and a few other minor things like some color correction. The output via the frame server brought it up as 4x3 video with no cropping or color correction. It seems to just take the raw footage as it is cut on the timeline and streams that out bypassing anything other than basic cuts.

One way around it would be to render to a new track and then mute the other tracks keeping only the rendered track for the output. But that probably defeats the reason you use procoder.

someone else had a similar problem earlier with color correction not appearing in frameserved output... then they resolved it. By default frameserver will work exactly like a render to AVI, so anything that doesnt appear should be some other issue.

Hi all,

I have tried Staish's Frameserver, called PluginPac and worked great. Specially when I do not need any intermedite DV encoding "NTSC DV" it works just like "uncompressed avi file" and creates the temp. avi after which I open ProCoder it recognizes this avi file and creates nice looking MPG-2. One less step and better quality image if you are going from DV-MPG-2 for DVD burning.

One problem through, It uses some other codec for sound other than PCM, it’s called ACM which does not work has problem. Work around, you have to check USE PCM AUDIO coding in PluginPac Frameserver menu.

Good Luck.
ARK

I have also tried Satish's frameserver (thanks Satish) from Vegas to Procoder. It accepts the rendered effects OK, so I do not see the same thing as filmy mentioned.

One problem I did get, but didn't have time to investigate, was that the audio on my PAL VCD project went out of sync with video, as if either the frameserver or Procoder got confused with the audio sample rate. The project used 44.1 KHz audio, (and so does VCD) but I think the audio was somehow being interpreted as 48KHz, because the VCD audio came out too fast. Since I had to finish it quickly, I ended up exporting as an AVI from Vegas and importing into Procoder (i.e. not using the frameserver) and it worked fine.

Richard Hunter