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HDV-to-HD WMV
In my continuing education on HDV…
In order to produce an HD WMV file, I am getting my best results with this workflow:
* Edit in Vegas
* Render as Main Concept MPEG2 –> HDV 1080-30p
* Import to ProCoder
* Encode as Windows Media HD720pI find the image quality when I use this workflow to be better than rendering WMV 720 directly out of Vegas.
Any comments? Advice?
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3 Replies
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Wierd but I’m not surprised. I’ve worked with HDV for several months and it is a new world every day.
JerryW
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Hi Jerry,
Well, you’re ahead of me on experience as I just got started with HDV. What looks wierd on that workflow? The fact that a direct-from-Vegas rendering to HD wmv isn’t as good as going through an interim rendering to get to ProCoder? I went that route because I always get somewhat better results from ProCoder than from Vegas. (I almost always render out an .avi from Vegas to take into Procoder to create SD wmv, Quicktime, etc.) Is it more common, in your experience, to render the final product right out of Vegas? -
Yes, straight out of Vegas with widescreen DVDs. I’m finishing a feature movie. In the beginnning I had a lot of render problems. Then I tried resetting the project properties before rendering and things got better. Later I was told this shouldn’t matter but it seemed to help. (My project was 1440 X 1080 and I was rendering 720 ws.
I haven’t worked with ProCoder but I hear it is an excellent product. The programs I found indispensible with HDV were HD Connect and Magic Bullet. I captured everything with Connect and used CineForm throughout (no proxies). Magic Bullet gave some looks that nothing I’ve seen can match. It is a longer render time for their effects but they are much faster in the later version of the program and it also will utilize the processor on an nVidia video card (they are rated on their site).
JerryW
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