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Stitching together video on Sony Vegas
Hi,
Some time ago I was given advice on stitching together re-rendered footage on Vegas. Basically what had happened was that I shoot footage on my Panasonic GH1 in 720p MOV at 30fps. If I tried to edit all my footage shot on the one timeline Vegas kept crashing basically because my computer wasn’t able to handle the sheer amount of size of all of these MOV files. I was advised on this forum to render out what I could as an Main Concept 2 m2t file at HDV 720 30p which worked perfectly. So instead of editing an entire short film on the one timeline, I edited one scene at a time, rendered it and brought it back into Vegas. The footage retained its quality and the files were small enough for Vegas to handle, and then I simply stitched the rendered footage back together on a new timeline.This time around I have a similar question but this time the footage has been shot at 1080p AVCHD (.mts file) at 25fps. If Vegas has difficulty editing a lot these files on the one timeline, and I had to render out the footage with a view to bringing it back into Vegas for further editing, what would be my best option of render settings for the footage to retain most of it quality?
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[Patrick McKenna] ” If Vegas has difficulty editing a lot these files on the one timeline, and I had to render out the footage with a view to bringing it back into Vegas for further editing, what would be my best option of render settings for the footage to retain most of it quality?”
Render to Sony MXF. These should edit easily and retain very high quality.
The “real” solution, of course, is to buy a workstation that is powerful enough to perform video editing (but you knew this). 😉
~jr
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Hi John,
Thank you as always for your kind replies. I have Sony Vegas Movie Studio 10 and I don’t think that I have the option to render to Sony MXF. However, I have Sony AVC with various templates. What would be my best options here?
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I would continue to render to MainConcept MPEG-2 HDV then. You already know that it looks great and edits easily on your computer. 25Mbps HDV is the same quality as 16Mbps AVCHD but it edits way, way, easier so I would personally stick with using .m2t files.
~jr
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Hi John,
Sorry that I’m only responding to your last reply now. I have rendered out using Main Concept 2 HDV. One thing I noticed was that the original footage was 1920×1080 at 25fps but when I render it out as Main Concept 2 HDV 1080-50i, the footage is no longer at 1920×1080 but 1440×1080 with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.333 instead of 1.000. I assume that it shouldn’t affect the final outcome??Also, regarding render settings,
1) what format (render settings) would you recommend for the purpose of uploading a video online if the original footage is AVCHD 1080 at 25 fps and,
2) what would be the best format (render setting) for viewing on a laptop (which would ultimately be hooked up to a projector)??Thanks again.
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[Patrick McKenna] “I have rendered out using Main Concept 2 HDV. One thing I noticed was that the original footage was 1920×1080 at 25fps but when I render it out as Main Concept 2 HDV 1080-50i, the footage is no longer at 1920×1080 but 1440×1080 with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.333 instead of 1.000. I assume that it shouldn’t affect the final outcome??”
Well… this is why I suggested Sony MXF but I understand that Movie Studio doesn’t allow you to render to this. You are loosing some horizontal resolution by using HDV 1080 (i.e., 1440 vs 1920). This wasn’t a problem with HDV 720.
I guess the question is can you see a difference? If you can’t then HDV is good enough. If you can, then don’t use HDV 1080. At that point, CineForm would be my next choice but it probably cost as much as Movie Studio so the bottom line is that your budget may limit your choices of render format.
[Patrick McKenna] “1) what format (render settings) would you recommend for the purpose of uploading a video online if the original footage is AVCHD 1080 at 25 fps and,”
I would use the Internet HD 1080 template under either MainConcept AVC or Sony AVC depending on your version of Movie Studio.
[Patrick McKenna] “2) what would be the best format (render setting) for viewing on a laptop (which would ultimately be hooked up to a projector)??”
The same as for Internet upload.
~jr
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