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Another avi question
I am working on a project for my church. It will be a recurring video segment to be shown on our “big screen” video projection system, for Sunday morning announcements. Basically it will be a monthly newsmagazine. I have developed an opening and closing sequence in Vegas. This will be used for the beginning and ending of each show. Which of the following proceedures will produce the best results. Render each project (the opening and closing sequences) as an avi file (1 for each) to be stored on my hard drive, or print the project to DV tape and then capture back to my hard drive. I want to be able to drag these files from my hard drive into new projects of upcoming episodes, without losing quality.
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4 Replies
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There’s no difference between the two methods except that it’s possible you *could* drop frames by going to tape and back. When going to tape, it renders to DV-AVI and then puts that on tape. You’re not gaining anything by going to tape first.
Edward Troxel
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Thanks Edward for the reply. I was not sure if one method gave better results than the other. Seems like rendering straight to an avi would save time and present less chance of problems. Thanks again.
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The best thing you could do is render them out uncompressed. That way they’ll have the best quality you’re going to get. The problem is that this makes for big files. The next choice might be the Sony YUV format which is 4:2:2 and should hold up pretty well.
The last thing you want to do is go back to DV25, especially if you’ve added text or graphics to these clips. DV25 will tear up the edges of these. So don’t store the renders on a DV tape.
If disk space is an issue and the renders are small enough to fit on a data DVD (which is any writable DVD) you could store the AVI files there.
Rob Mack
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I agree with Rob. If you’ve added text, stay with the higher quality formats. OR simply save and nest the VEG file instead of saving to a separate AVI file.
Edward Troxel
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