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  HDV to DVD…. please help

  Posted by Eor on December 14, 2006 at 6:07 am

  I have HDV-Cineform AVIs from Sony FX1 (1080i) and JVC HD100 (720p) that I need to mix & edit to produce a final NTSC-widescreen normal DVD. I do not have the native m2t HDV files. Working with Vegas 7 & DVD arch4.
  What settings are recomended for my project ? … just NTSC widescreen and render to mpeg2 the same way ? …or Do I need to set my project to HDV (maybe 720-30p for this case) and then render to mpeg2-NTSC widescreen ?
  Is there any special recomendation or advice to this HDV to DVD workflow ?
  Whats the “stretch video to fill frame” check box for (on the render window) ?

  any comment would be greatly apreciated

  Jerry Waters replied 19 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jerry Waters

  December 14, 2006 at 5:06 pm

  I do a lot of HDV. Do a render, mpg2 and you will find a bunch of templates. I like the widescreen 24p template. There is nothing wrong with 30p but I don’t use it much. Render it out and go. This template does not do audio unless you punch the “Customize” button, go to audio and click to include it. Vegas and DVD recommend (and it probably is better) to just render the video and then render an Ac3 of the same region. Then go into DVDA and make the DVD. Some people burn there but, I think just about as many or more, burn the DVD with Nero.

  Notice that in the Customize area you can create a lot of different templates that you might want to label.

  JerryW
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  Enrique Orozco

  December 14, 2006 at 10:21 pm

  Yes, but, what is the best setting for my working project (NOT the render) ?

  HDV or NTSC-widescreen… (I think if my output will be NTSC-DVD, can be just like that…)

  and, what is the “stretch video to fill frame” ??

  Regards

  EOR
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  Jerry Waters

  December 14, 2006 at 11:07 pm

  I always set my project to HDV60i since I use a Z1 and an A1U and HD Connect Cineform files at 1440 X 1080. However, sometimes I notice the project size will change to 720 X 486 when I am rendering out the widescreen to that size. It works either way. Project properties is not so important as the render out. Just do it, small clips and DVD RWs if you want to experiment, and see what you get. It doesn’t hurt if you screw it up and you will very quickly see what you get.

  JerryW

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