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Vegas Pro9e/EX1r – Settings?
Hi All,
I’ve done my research into the archives, but find no reference to these questions – so please forgive me if it has been dealt with and I missed it:I have recently upgraded to Pro9e (just before the release of Pro10) and am shooting on a Sony EX1r. I’m shooting mainly scenics and action video with my video format setting set to HQ 1080/30P (1920×1080) and HQ 720/60P (1280×720), when I use the over-crank function.
What would the correct settings be on Vegas to edit my video as smoothly as possible while maintaining the best quality possible?
Second question:
With the above settings in mind, what would be the best settings for editing a program for DVD? I understand that DVD does not provide for HD, so I need to “degrade” my video to DV for this purpose. Correct? If so, should I do this before I edit, or afterwards, during the transfer to DVD?Many thanks for all your expertise and time.
Bruce
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7 Replies
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In Vegas just got to File > Properties, then in the top right there’s a button that says match media settings if you let the mouse linger over it a second. Click that and select one of your clips. Vegas will adjust all the timeline settings based on your footage. If you’re mixing 1080p and 720p I’d just leave the timeline at 1080p. Then when you’re done if you want to drop down to DVD, just render out an mpeg2 file instead of whatever format you normally do.
If you know ahead of time that you’re only ever going DVD then you could always export the clips from XDCAM Browser as standard definition, which would take a lot of time but make the editing less system-intensive and render the final product faster. Of course by that logic since you have the EX1-r you could just shoot the footage in standard def too. I’d keep it all in HD since I never know when a client might decide they want it in HD a year from now, but some projects just get shown once on DVD then are never viewed again.
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Hi David,
Thanks so much for your reply and clear answers.
I am shooting mainly documentary work and need to shoot in HD while using some of the material for other DVD projects. Any material I shoot that I know will only be for DVD I will shoot in SD as you suggest.I do have a further question and would be grateful for your input:
After I have imported my clips to my computer HDD using the XDCam clip browser, I open Vegas and search for my clips in the ‘Explorer’ tab. I locate them on my Data drive as (for example) the following:
D:/Sony Video Clips/Clip Browser/20100425174422/BPAV/CLPR/BQ010002_01.
When I click on the final folder (BQ010002_01), I see the clip in the window next to the explorer tree window.
If I click on the CLPR folder, I only see a list of folders that contain each individual clip.So I have to load each clip individually into the Project Media file – which takes a ridiculously long time.
My question is: Is there any way I can load these clips as a group?This might be a very basic one, but search as I may, I haven’t been able to find a quick way to do it.
Thanks again for your help.Bruce
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Hi David,
Thanks so much for your reply and clear answers.
I am shooting mainly documentary work and need to shoot in HD while using some of the material for other DVD projects. Any material I shoot that I know will only be for DVD I will shoot in SD as you suggest.I do have a further question and would be grateful for your input:
After I have imported my clips to my computer HDD using the XDCam clip browser, I open Vegas and search for my clips in the ‘Explorer’ tab. I locate them on my Data drive as (for example) the following:
D:/Sony Video Clips/Clip Browser/20100425174422/BPAV/CLPR/BQ010002_01.
When I click on the final folder (BQ010002_01), I see the clip in the window next to the explorer tree window.
If I click on the CLPR folder, I only see a list of folders that contain each individual clip.So I have to load each clip individually into the Project Media file – which takes a ridiculously long time. My question is: Is there any way I can load these clips as a group?
This might be a very basic one, but search as I may, I haven’t been able to find a quick way to do it.
Thanks again for your help.PS: I have done what you suggested and it certainly worked on the upper section of the Project Properties box. It doesn’t however affect the mid section that includes ‘Pixel Format’, Compositing Gama’, etc. Do you have any suggestions concerning these settings?
Tks,BQBruce
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Hi Bruce… you don’t even need clip browser to edit your EX clips in Vegas 9pro… in windows explorer just do a search for *.mp4 located in your BPAV folder… then you can drag and drop to your Vegas’ timeline all the mp4 native clips you want in one step… and when I worked for DVD production, I always work in a HD project and make my final render to mpeg2 widescreen DVD arch template (audio AC3) …. very easy…
good luck
Enrique Orozco R.
iDEA DigitalVideoStudio -
Hi Enrique,
Thanks for your reply.
I have always read that it is essential (for security of your material) to move the files via clip browser only – not simply move them by copy and paste. Perhaps this is only if one is backing up your clips?
What’s your take on this?
Cheers,Bruce
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Vegas has a built in XDCAM clip importer which you can certainly use if you want to keep all the folder structures in tact and inport them that way. What I prefer is to make one folder called “media”, then in the XDCAM Browser you select all the clips on however many cards there are, and export to “MXF for NLEs” Then tell it to export to the folder you want. Keep that original BPAV folder on some external drive as a backup. Then just go to explorer into that folder and drag the MXF files into the timeline. You want want to set Windows to show file extensions just to make it easier to identify mxf files. I feel like the only reason that ever got implemented by default was to be more like Apple so that people don’t have to learn what different types of files are. Can you imagine a world where we all just call files pictures and movies instead of actually knowing what filetypes they are?
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Great advice – Thanks David.
Now I can get on with the creative stuff.Appreciate all the advice and comments from this excellent forum.
Cheers,Bruce
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