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AVCHD + HDV = Blu-ray?
Crazy subject header…but now that you are curious so am I, for I will be shooting a wedding in a few months with two different camcorders: both Sonys, but one records in 1920X1080 AVCHD while the other one records in 1440X1080 HDV. While both are 1080 60i, although their pixel sizes are different, I was told in another post on this Forum that for all intents and purposes they are identical (outputting .m2t or .m2ts files). So do I just set my project properties to the former and edit away in SVP Pro 12, render to a 1920X1080 template and then burn my Blu-ray in the same 1920X1080 configuration in DVD Architect 6, or…? Please advise, and thanks in advance.
Rich Kutnick
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You can basically put any kind of video clips on the Vegas timeline, and render to whatever format you like… Vegas does a pretty good job of dealing with the differences.
In your case, yeah, HDV and AVCHD will work just dandy together. You do want to use the same format, since you don’t want it to be visually obvious in the final video that there are two cameras in use. As well, you need to color match the two as closely as possible. The difference between 1440 and 1920 horizontal pixels souldn’t be easy to spot… the other stuff, yeah, you can see that.
-Dave
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I regularly use a mix of 1920 AVCHD and 1440 HDV in my projects. My project properties are set to the lower of the two i.e. 1440, including my bluray renders
My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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Thanks so much for the detailed response, Nigel. I want to ask you, though, why do you set everything for 1440 instead of 1920? Does this give you the best quality? Smallest files sizes? Fastest renders? I, myself, would rather have a higher quality product than the fastest process. What are your thoughts and results?
Rich Kutnick
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I sometimes use the lower of the two, but not always. Using the lowest common demominator for consistancy. Basically so that your final project doesnt include some footage that has been upscaled, and instead all the footage matches.
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Basically, everything that Lewis said about avoiding upscaling and rendering to the lowest common denominator 🙂
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