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AVCHD to DVD with Vegas 8
I’m having problems rendering AVCHD files for DVD.
I have many hours of AVCHD soccer video shot on my Sony HDR-SR7 camera. I have imported the files onto Vegas Pro 8 and edited them (Pentium Core2 Quad). I have one project for each soccer game I shot and edited. All the projects were set to NTSC DV Widescreen. I want to make an intermediate project so I can put all the games into one project, add titles and a separate music track. I have tried rendoring each game to AVI (Best quality) with De-interlace set to Interpolate fields. I then imported the AVIs into a final project, added the titles and music and rendered to MPEG2 using the Mainconcept DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen settings.The result is less than satisfactory with either blurred horizontal motion when the camera tracks the play, or what looks like an interlace breakup again on horizontal motion.
What settings are best to use to convert my already edited AVCHD projects to a final project and then to DVD?
Thanks and sorry for the long post!Mike.
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4 Replies
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Start with an HD timeline, not a DVD NTSC timeline. Which camera are you shooting with? 1440 or 1920 vertical? Then downconvert this to SD widescreen. Use Nested timelines vs rendering to AVI (and losing a LOT of quality in the process).
Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASSTCertified Sony Vegas Trainer
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Thanks for your very quick response. My camera is the HDR-SR7 – 1440.
I thought AVI was supposed to be lossless when editing SD video, which is why I chose that option.
Mike.
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AVI is a wrapper. Think of it as a paper bag that contains video. It can contain all sorts of codecs, most lossy, some lossless. If it’s DV, it’s lossy.
Import your AVCHD or HDI format to a 1440 x 1080 (HDV) timeline, edit, then output to an NTSC Widescreen template, checking the “Do Not Letterbox” option in the render dialog. You’ll be thrilled with the quality. And you won’t be transcoding colorspaces like you are by going to DV first.Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASSTCertified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor -
Thanks. I tried it last night and it worked very well. It contradicts what the manual and the online help says (start with a DV project and place your AVCHD files into the project), but it does work well!
Two follow-up questions – in the project properties, for Field Order there are Low Field or High Field first and Progressive. My camera seems to produce High Field first, but if I set the property to Progressive the DVD seems slightly smoother on some DVD players – why is this?
Also, when rendering to MPEG, when would one choose the Architect Pro Widescreen 24p option over the default Architect Pro Widescreen option?
Thanks again for your help.
Mike
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