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  • Format for playback on Television

    Posted by Stuartmac on January 8, 2007 at 10:04 pm

    I am a first time user of Sony Vegas. So far I have imported two clips originally done on my Sony DVD camcorder and joined them together. I have then made a movie through “moviemaker” wizard. My question is, when I play these back the quality is a bit grainy and not the same as the original clips. Ultimately I want to join clips together then play back on a television screen. Why is it grainy, what format should I use?

    Gary Kleiner replied 19 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Mike Kujbida

    January 8, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    First of all, what is “moviemaker” wizard?
    Secondly, what version of Vegas do you have? If it’s Movie Studio instead of the full Vegas, please say so.

  • Gary Kleiner

    January 9, 2007 at 4:13 am

    Your DVD camcorder compresses your video to the Mpeg2 format. When you make changes (including combining clips)and rendering that to a new file, you are RE-compressing the already compressed video and the quality suffers.

    Bottom line: Mpeg2 is not a good aquisition format if you are going to be editing it later.

    Gary Kleiner

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