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Trying to get good renders for HDV to DVD..
Hello, I’m a newbie to HDV and am having a heck of a time trying to render the files from the vegas timeline. I have a canon HV30 and have footage shot at HDV30. I have been trying for the past two days to render using most every codec and have been getting horrible results.
I’ve tried mpeg2 using the DVDA NTSC codec and it looks dark and really interlaced. With the avi codecs (xvid, cinepak, & trial version of Cineform) it looks the same, really dark. I’m stumped. I made an HD render to quicktime (1280×720) and it looked decent. Kinda soft, but not as sharp as the preview footage in vegas.
Also it seems that the preview in the trimmer is wayyyy better than that of the timeline, meaning it is much more sharp and faster than viewing clips off the timeline. Why is that? Thanks in advance, Vic.
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Vic, your subject says “Trying to get good renders for HDV to DVD” There is only one codec that you can use for DVD and that’s MPEG-2 so trying anything else will not achieve your goal. The NTSC DVD Widescreen template is what you should be using. I use this for the HDV footage from my Sony HVR-Z1U and the rendered footage looks exactly as it does in Vegas (and from the camera).
Have you burned a DVD and viewed it on your TV? This is the real test. If your video looks darker on your TV than it does on the Vegas timeline, then perhaps you need to calibrate your computer monitor because it appears that you might have it too bright. Having a calibrated monitor is essential to getting color and levels correct.
If the video is darker on the same computer monitor pre-render and post-render then I can’t explain that as I have never experienced that with going from HDV to DVD. Try rendering just a raw piece of footage from your camera to MPEG-2 with Vegas. It should look the same.
~jr
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Thanks John! I checked the video settings in the nvdia chipset graphics card and voila, that was my problem. All the video was dark because of the settings in the graphics driver. It was kinda weird how it only affected media players(VLC,Windows Media player, & Nero Showtime)& not Vegas. HUH? So, I re-rendered the project to main concept mpeg-2 and everything looks great! thanks for the insight and advise! – Vic
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You’re welcome. Media players use a special mode called “video overlay”. This overlays a small section of screen with video. I’ll bet the settings only affected that mode which is why they only affected media players.
~jr
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