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Finally updated from Sony 7 to 12
Wow, that’s a different beast, a beautiful one.
Now, I used to capture my HDV footage with HD Link and convert it to Cineform NeoHD. But I’ve noticed that in version 12 I can edit HDV footage very smoothly.Still, do you edit in HDV or do you convert to something else other than cineform?
If not, once you have edited in native HDV and you want to share your footage or export to the highest quality, which codec from the Vegas 12 library do you use? I’ve install the Avid DXxHD codec, but would you say there is something better? What about the Sony MVX?
Or do you just leave in in HDV?
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[Philippe Orlando] “Still, do you edit in HDV or do you convert to something else other than cineform?”
I edit in HDV. No need to convert at all.
[Philippe Orlando] “If not, once you have edited in native HDV and you want to share your footage or export to the highest quality, which codec from the Vegas 12 library do you use?”
It is HDV and will never be better than HDV so I export my final master as HDV. Others may have different workflows. I try and keep mine as simple as possible.
~jr
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Hi John,
1-So when I take that SSD OCZ drive and put it in a faster machine I’m about to built, very similar to yours, no need to buy Cineform anymore, right?
2-If I need to uprez HDV to 1920, what do you suggest? Which codec would give me the best quality?
Thanks
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[Philippe Orlando] “1-So when I take that SSD OCZ drive and put it in a faster machine I’m about to built, very similar to yours, no need to buy Cineform anymore, right?”
Nope, not for HDV. I’ve been editing naive HDV for several years now ever since I got my first quad core.
[Philippe Orlando] “2-If I need to uprez HDV to 1920, what do you suggest? Which codec would give me the best quality?”
Why would you need to do that? This will help you answer your question. If you need it to be 1920 for Internet delivery then use AVC/H.264. Otherwise I see no need to use another codec. HDV uses non-square pixels (1.3333) but when you stretch them out to be square, the resolution is 1920×1080 already. So it’s not really an uprez. It’s an expansion of already existing pixels.
~jr
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“HDV uses non-square pixels (1.3333) but when you stretch them out to be square, the resolution is 1920×1080 already. So it’s not really an uprez. It’s an expansion of already existing pixels.”
So when I render HDV to 1920×1080 AVC/H.264 the expansion happens by itself or do I need to select Pixels 1.0 instead of 1.3333?
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[Philippe Orlando] “So when I render HDV to 1920×1080 AVC/H.264 the expansion happens by itself or do I need to select Pixels 1.0 instead of 1.3333?”
If you select a render template with 1920×1080 and you select PAR 1.0000 the pixels will be stretched to be square automatically. Just render to a template that uses 1920×1080 PAR 1.000.
~jr
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