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HD Preview and Rendering Problems
Alright, so I’m a total newb at this and I have been teaching myself as I go along….I have hit a road block now that probably is an easy fix but is driving me up a wall. If anyone can help me out, please do since I don’t want to totally lose hope on these projects.
1) I am having major problems with previewing my videos on my main LCD display. I captured video off of an HDV tape and in my display preview settings I have it set to HD at the highest settings: 1080-60i and my PAR is at 1.33333 (HDV). For SOME reason, the preview on my main display (my only one) is just coming out blurry all over the place for no apparent reason. I honestly don’t know how to fix this and any help in getting the preview while I’m working in the project to actually display correctly would be much appreciated.
2) When I render my video to be burned onto a DVD (which I guess it renders the file and then sends it to DVD architect for menu making and burning), what is the right setting so that I ensure I get as close to the best quality as I can on the final DVD ? Should I render it in a different way and then open it up into DVD architect or is clicking “Make a movie” –> “Burn to DVD” and having the mpg and ac3 files created to be opened up into DVD architect sufficient?
3) Finally, I burned a project with some transitions and text overlays and everything previewed fine on my device (this was before problem 1 and no I haven’t changed settings consciously). Everything previewed fine on my screen but when I burned the project to playback on the TV not only was the video quality a little under what I expected for it being HDV, but the text was getting cut off. I went back and adjusted my text in the text properties box to be within the 10% safe zone but it doesn’t match the safe zone grids drawn in the small preview…which one do I trust? And how do I make sure it doesn’t all get cut off again?
Thanks in advance for anyone’s help. If it’s easier to troubleshoot this by mail, please email me at ev****@***il.com
Thanks a lot. – Emeric
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4 Replies
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1) Check the settings on your Preview Pane. You may be in Draft mode, which is a lower-quality image but refreshes faster (good for slower, less powerful PC’s that can’t decode HDV in real time).
2) The DVDA manual gives optimal settings for rendering video and audio streams for quick ‘n’ painless DVD creation.
3) Not entirely sure about this one. For the overall video quality, check your settings when you render the video stream and make sure “Full Resolution Rendering Quality” is set to “Best.”
Hope some or all of this helps.
Robert Payes
Photographer/HD Videographer
“High-Rez Images of Low-life Subjects” -
Your burning a standard DVD which is 3-4 aspect ratio and standard definition. Render as NTSC wide screen and the video will be letter boxed but you’ll see everything on an LCD monitor. Still use the safe zones when it may be viewed on a CRT tv. By yhe way if you connect you computer to an HDTV via a VGA connection, try rendering it as a Windows media video V9, 8Mbps HD 1080-30p video. and watch it with Windows media player on your big screen. You’ll be suprised on how good it looks compaired to standard def, which all regular DVDs are. Danny Hays
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If regular DVDs only burn in standard definition – how do I burn my HD videos to an HD DVD? Do I need a special burner and/or DVD? Will I be able to burn to HD DVDs now…and convert to Blu-Ray later when the prices on burners and Blu-Ray DVDs come down? Thanks!
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zyou’ll always be able to render for BD if you keep your HD source files. You do know HD DVD is dead, yes?
creating SD DVD from HD source is easy, it’s merely a downconvert. Keep the HD source, you can burn to BD when you’re ready. Burners aren’t going to get a whole lot cheaper for a while. 400-600.00 is the avg cost, I believe. Haven’t bought a BD burner in a few months, so prices may have dropped a tad.Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASSTCertified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor
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