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Combining Phone Footage with HDV footage in Vegas Pro 11
Hello again,
I am trying to combining footage of my family taken with our HDV video camera with the footage recorded on my wife’s Samsung Galaxy S2 phone.
Sony vegas displays the specs of both sources as below:
HDV Camera
Video: 25.000 fps interlaced, 1440x1080x12, AVC
Audio: 48,000 Hz, Stereo, Dolby AC-3Samsung Phone
Video: 120.000 fps progressive, 1920x1080x12, AVC
Audio: 44,100 Hz, Mono, AACI also use the following properties in Vegas Pro 11:
Project Properties
Sony Vegas Preset – HDV 1080-50i (1440×1080, 25.000 fps)Render As Properties
Blu-ray 1440×1080-50i, 25 Mbps video stream (Video output MPEG2)I cannot seem to combine and render both sources together, with and without transitions. I always end up with the “Sony Vegas has stopped working….” message. Can I please have some help with trying to get the project working?
Otherwise, if I need to render the Phone footage separately into a ‘compatible’ format then add to the main project, what format would you recommend i render these files to whilst maintaing the video & audio quailty?
Thankyou again for your help 🙂
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[Michael Denford] “Otherwise, if I need to render the Phone footage separately into a ‘compatible’ format then add to the main project, what format would you recommend i render these files to whilst maintaing the video & audio quailty?”
It looks like this might be what you need to do. If you are really concerned about maintaining quality you can render to QuickTime Avid DNxHD for free (you need to download the codec and make a custom Avid DNxHD template) or you can purchase CineForm and get a near lossless copy. Many people simply render to Sony MXF and they can’t see any visual loss in quality. Personally I would just use Sony MXF.
~jr
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I used footage from the Samsung Galaxy III a couple of months ago, and it seemed Vegas (I use version 10) didn’t handle the Samsung h264 files well. The solution I used was to convert the Samsung files with GoPro Cineform Studio to Avi (the basic version of GoPro Cineform St. is free: https://gopro.com/software-app/cineform-studio/). I didn’t do any extensive testing on the quality, but it worked perfectly for my purposes (projection of video in a (smallish) theatre production), and the avi-files worked smoothly in Vegas.
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Thanks again for your help John. After matching the project properties of the Phone Footage, and Rendering as MXF 1440×1080, this then renders into my main 1440×1080 project fine.
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Thankyou for this info. I will also give this a try, and seee if it helps with my workflow.
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[Michael Denford] “After matching the project properties of the Phone Footage, and Rendering as MXF 1440×1080, this then renders into my main 1440×1080 project fine.”
Great! I’m glad that worked for you. Sony MXF is a great format to work with in Vegas Pro.
~jr
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I just gave the GoPro a shot.After importing my footage, I was stuck when it asked me to go to Step 2. When in the step 2 screen, I didn’t see my clip nor was able to progress any further. Will the size of the eventual .avi file be much larger than the source file?
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Step 2 isn’t necessary (if Step 1 is “Import & Convert” and Step 2 is “Edit”), if you’ve imported the mp4-files in the column on the left, and then clicked “Add clip to conversion list” and then “Convert all” (bottom right), you should now have an avi-file in the same folder that contains the mp4 files. In Advanced Settings you can change some options, f.ex. if you want mov-files rather than avi-files.
And yes, the avi-files are considerably larger than the mp4-files. A 123.555 KB mp4 file will be a 540.709 KB avi-file. By reducing the quality in Advanced Settings you will probably get smaller files, but I don’t know how much it will affect the quality of the image.
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