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Best rendering settings from MOV footage
Hi all,
I have been using Sony Vegas Movie Studio 10 for the last 9 months so I am still trying to get to grips with the whole editing process, particularly when it comes to rendering. I have encountered a few difficulties that I hope you can help me with.1) I am in the middle of editing a short film that I shot over the past 9 months. The camera shot the footage in MOV format at 30fps. There are 11 scenes in total in this short film so I decided to divide each scene up and edit each one as its own Vegas project. My plan behind this is so I can solely concentrate on one scene at a time and fine edit each one individually without getting distracted with other scenes or parts of the project. My plan was to render each fully edited scene out and re-import them all back into Vegas like on a master timeline which, once music and last minute color correction has been added, will be the ultimate outcome of the project when fully rendered. What is my best render setting to use on Vegas Movie Studio when rendering out each of these scenes?
2) The second difficulty that I have is that a friend of mine asked me to do a showreel for her on Vegas. The only difficulty is that I have different formats of footage of her. For example I have footage of her on DVD which are in MPG format at 25fps and I have footage in MOV format at 30fps. How can I import these different formats into Vegas if their fps don’t match?
I would be extremely grateful for your help here.
Regards,
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Hi Patrick,
As far as I know, MOV is rather a container than a format in itself – a bit like AVI. For instance it can contain AVCHD, but also other encodings.
The best would be that you introspect your MOV files with a tool like MediaInfo, and tell us what exactly is inside.
Anyhow, I would not recommend to render your sub-projects to then re-render them in the whole final project: this is a source of quality drop.
The best approach if you really want to do that, would be to use project nesting: you may import a .VEG/.VF on the time line as any other clip, and the rendering is done only once, in the end. But I am afraid this is only available in Vegas Pro, not Movie Studio… to be checked.
If it may help, I am usually rendering my MOV files (coming from EOS 7D, AVCHD 1080p 25fps), to MP4 with the following settings:
MainConcept MP4
1920x1080p
25fps
12MbpsBut this is only for output on a home TV. I would certainly not use this if I had to re-render the output clip from within an another project.
Hope this helps,
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Hi Frederic,
Thank you so much for the reply. The camera that I am using is a Panasonic GH1 (unhacked). I took your advice and I downloaded MediaInfo to see what exactly are in the files. Here’s what I found:-
I hope this helps. Being such a newbie to Vegas and the whole editing process, I don’t even know what kind of codec I use.
Regards,
Pat
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