best 1920 render for reuse into Sony movie studio HD Platinum 10

[Steve Shelton]

Select the HDV 1080-60i template under MainConcept MPEG-2

Just one comment, as I’m the wrong side of the pond I’m on PAL, so should I select the HDV 1080-50i template under MainConcept MPEG-2?

[John Rofrano]

[Steve Shelton] “Sorry to sound hung up on it but I’m a complete novice regarding codecs and compression so hunting out advice from experienced users like yourself will save me hours of confusion, trails and errors.”

I completely understand. The main problem with getting advice is knowing what question to ask. Most novices will ask if there is a way to NOT loose ANY quality and people who take them literally will tell them to render uncompressed or do something else that is overkill for what they need, but answers the question very accurately when, in fact, they can just render to the original format and never see a difference. I fell into this trap this time with recommending CineForm although I also recommended the build-in XDCAM and just rendering to MPEG-2. Sometimes the “best” format for not losing quality is an “inappropriate” format for the situation and some loss in quality is acceptable because it isn’t noticeable. Sorry to lead you on a “wild goose chase” as they say here in the states.

[Steve Shelton] “Creative Cow is a fantastic set up and so prompt in reply, how can users of it show their appreciation or best support/promote it?”

The best way to show your appreciation is to stick around and help others. That takes the load off a bit. I understand that some people are busy and can’t stick around and just needed a quick question answered and that’s OK too. I help here because that’s what my Christian upbringing taught me to do… just help others as you would like to be helped. I don’t need any other motivation but I’m also glad to be appreciated as well. 😉 Thanks for all of us.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[John Rofrano]

[Steve Shelton] “Just one comment, as I’m the wrong side of the pond I’m on PAL, so should I select the HDV 1080-50i template under MainConcept MPEG-2?”

Sorry, I answer so may posts that sometimes it’s tough to keep the context of all of the conversations in my head. Yes, use the HDV 1080-50i template if you are from a PAL country.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com