Best settings to render 1920×1080

[Kira Pogge]

Hi John,

I do have one quick question – as I’m doing some research and looking around I see that many wedding videographers have final products that look extremely sharp – how do they get that crisp look. I’m shooting in 1080p but the rendering, due to the fact that we’re making DVD’s for the couple, is coming out at 720×480, significantly decreasing the resolution.

Is there any other choice for rendering the video for a DVD that would provide a higher level of quality?

Thanks so much for your help – I do appreciate it!

Kira

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[John Rofrano]

[Kira Pogge] “as I’m doing some research and looking around I see that many wedding videographers have final products that look extremely sharp – how do they get that crisp look.”

Are you watching their DVD’s or are you watching their HD footage on the Internet? You can always add a bit of sharpening to your final output if you want things to be sharper. It’s also a good idea to render with Best quality since you are resizing from HD to SD. You can set this in your project properties or in your render template. I would just set it up in the render template and then use that template for all of your DVD’s.

~jr

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[Kira Pogge]

Thanks so much!! I will certain create a template – and you’re right I am looking at most of their videos on the internet which I know allows for different rendering settings.

Alrighty – that’s what we’ll do. Thanks again and have a great week!

Kira

When you reach for the stars all you get are the stars, but we found a whole new spin. If you reach for the heavens you get the stars thrown in.

[John Rofrano]

[Kira Pogge] “and you’re right I am looking at most of their videos on the internet which I know allows for different rendering settings. “

Yea, judging sharpness on the Internet isn’t fair to compare to your DVD. You are probably watching 720p HD on the Internet. Also if you are watching your DVD’s on an HD TV, they will look better on a DVD player that has HDMI out and an up-scaler. My Samsung Blu-ray player makes DVD’s almost look as good as Blu-ray discs so the player will affect the quality as well (and that’s out of your hands).

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome. I’m glad that helped.

~jr

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[Paul Mcdermott]

Hi John
You seem to be the guru when it comes to DVD Architect Pro. I have a wedding business and now shoot 1080p 25 Pal.
I was rendering to PAL Widescreen Video Stream and noticed in Custom Settings, field order could be upper field first or progressive.
I rendered one DVD with progressive and it looked fine.

Should I have done this?

Also I am making a DVD from HDV for a couple in the USA. I shot it in 50i HDV and those are the project settings. To convert to NTSC. I am rendering to NTSC widescreen video stream. I also noticed there was a 24p NTSC widescreen video stream in the options. Would this improve the quality?

Thanks
Paul

[John Rofrano]

[Paul McDermott] “I was rendering to PAL Widescreen Video Stream and noticed in Custom Settings, field order could be upper field first or progressive. I rendered one DVD with progressive and it looked fine.

Should I have done this?”

Check to see if it really stayed progressive because PAL DVD video is supposed to be interlaced. One way to check is to go to File | Optimise Disc in DVD Architect and see if it thinks that the file needs re-rendering. If it doesn’t you are good to go.

[Paul McDermott] “Also I am making a DVD from HDV for a couple in the USA. I shot it in 50i HDV and those are the project settings. To convert to NTSC. I am rendering to NTSC widescreen video stream. I also noticed there was a 24p NTSC widescreen video stream in the options. Would this improve the quality?”

Yes, since 25p is so close to 24p I would render it to 24p for NTSC.

~jr

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[Paul Mcdermott]

Thanks John
In optimise disk there were green checks for the video stream.

Just to clarify on on the second query. Even though it was shot in HDV interlaced at 50i, NTSC 24p Widescreen video stream is good to go?

[John Rofrano]

[Paul McDermott] “Just to clarify on on the second query. Even though it was shot in HDV interlaced at 50i, NTSC 24p Widescreen video stream is good to go?”

Yea but there is one thing you need to do. You need to set the Undersample to 0.999 on all of the events to get Vegas to render to 24p without blending frames. Otherwise it will blend frames to go from 25fps to 24fps.

To do this, you can right-click on each event and go into the Properties and change it on the media tab or you can use a productivity tool like VASST Property Assistant ($9.95 USD) that can do it all with one click. In the interest of “full disclosure” I work for VASST and I wrote Property Assistant but it’s really a great tool along with the other Fasst Apps for jobs like this.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Paul Mcdermott]

Thanks John
I’ve had 5 Months of issues with Vegas 11, which I have just got about sorted I think. So from here on out I’m not adding any plug ins.

Thanks for the info though.
Much appreciated