EX1 MP4 to MXF Question?

[Danny Hays]

MXF, AVI, ect, They are just containers that can contain many different types of files. In your Vegas preferences, there’s an option to “no recompression on long GOP structure”. That’s probably checked and That’s fine, good actually. You probably won’t see a difference in the editing ability since it didn’t recompress. If your system will edit MP4 smooth enough, I would not convert before editing as everytime you convert, “recompress”, it takes a quality hit. If you have to convert to edit, I would render as uncompressed, or YUV at the same resolution as your source file. Then edit and render to your desired format for delivery. Hope this helps, Danny Hays

[Don Cobble]

Thank You Danny
It edits fine with EX1 -MP4 so I will stick with that.
One more question if I may?
What is the best format for storing and keeping a high quality yet as small as possible file for future use? not know what format I may be ask to render-out to, for broadcasting?

PC
I7 2.8 Ghz 8GB Ram
Vista 64bit OS
Nvidia FX 580 Video Card
3-4 TB HD
Vegas Pro 9 32bit & Vegas Pro 9 64bit

Camera
Sony EX1 shoot in 1920×1080 30P

[Danny Hays]

If your going to edit it in the future, I would keep it in it’s original format since drive space is cheap now days. If no editing later, .WMV highest preset setting, 1920 – 1080 8 mbps. Or Vegas has an .MP4 HD render preset for high quality, low size, good for Internet streaming. Danny Hays

[John Rofrano]

If no editing later, .WMV highest preset setting, 1920 – 1080 8 mbps. Or Vegas has an .MP4 HD render preset for high quality, low size, good for Internet streaming.

Personally, I would go with Danny’s second suggestion. WMV is a windows only format and you never know what platform you might find yourself on in the future. I would render to MP4 which is platform agnostic.

~jr

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[Don Cobble]

Thank You both

PC
I7 2.8 Ghz 8GB Ram
Vista 64bit OS
Nvidia FX 580 Video Card
3-4 TB HD
Vegas Pro 9 32bit & Vegas Pro 9 64bit

Camera
Sony EX1 shoot in 1920×1080 30P