HDMI for Laptops?

[Terry Nahirny]

Jerry, I’ve been doing numberous tests all night here. Tried exactly what you suggested. Captured a clip to avi w/Neo and rendered it from Vegas w/DVDA temp and burned using Nero on a different burner. I also (for comparison) burned the same DVDA file with DVDA burn on my laptop drive and after putting them back to back on 3 different players didn’t notice a bit of difference between the two burns. Quality wise -about the same results as I usually get, blurier, less defined than a commercial DVD.
I’m just finishing up one last set of test burns tonight -m2t file rendered to DVDA and burnt with DVDA compared to a converted m2t file to avi with Neo rendered to DVDA and burnt with DVDA. No noticable difference at all. Go figure! Mabe I should try to post a before and after capture shoot. Can I just paste a small pic in this box?

[Jerry Waters]

How does your stuff look on the timeline? Blurry or sharp?

You do realize that your DVD is going to be less resolution than the m2t files — at least until you can burn a blu-ray.

JerryW

[Terry Nahirny]

Hey Jerry,
Ya the files look amazing on Vegas timeline -very sharp HD quality. I don’t see any pixalization and don’t see any flickering in the picture.
And yes I do realize that I’m losing quality going to DVD.
Is it not possible to get clarity and quality like that of a commercial DVD with the process we’re doing?
The last test burns I did last night looked good, just not as good as when I popped in a CSI DVD. My burn has pixalation where there are lines in the picture (looks like interlacing outcome) as well as flickering on lettering on the side of a truck in the video. Is there something else I need to be doing like blurr effect?
I realize that my little HDV cam doesn’t have the clear blacks that a larger one would -does that have anything to do with why my burn looks blurrier?
I’m just wondering now if I’m rendering and burning correctly, but am missing something else.
Thanks for your time this week Jerry -I’ve appreciated much.
I’ve got my first paid video shoot coming up next month and I want to be really happy with the final burn on DVD.
I made a 20 sec video clip for my production company that looks amazing on the timeline (computer generated material-no video footage), but burns out really blotchy/pixelated and blurry like crap!
It just doesn’t look even close to commercial production logos at the front of motion pictures. I’ve read that I need to be adding a blurr effect on computer generated material -have you come across this as well?
I’ll be on my pc for the next few hours. tks, t

[Brian Sinks]

Could it be something with the settings? Either your m2p clip or the settings in the Vegas project is trying to de-interlace (blend fields) the 60i and then interlace again when it renders for the DVD? I know from experience that going back and forth can cause problems (smearing, pixalation). Have you checked the render settings within the MPEG2 render (custom) to see if the average is set too low – which could cause pixalation?

Brian Sinks
IN1ACCORD Productions
Tulsa, Oklahoma

[Terry Nahirny]

Brian hey!

Just saw your post today -sorry.

I’m really trying to understand how interlacing needs to function from shooting to rendering.

If I understand correctly, I should not be blending if I’m rendering to DVD because the rendering will interlace it again?

I’ve checked the average bps within custom and it’s default is set to 6,000,000. Should I bump that up to 8,000,000 for max quality?

I’ll try some tests today to see if there is any differences.

I’m having some issues with my text looking very interlaced and flickery as well -any ideas on what to do with that? Should those media text events be set to interlaced or none?

tks,

t.

[Scott Jensen]

[JerryW] “I have a friend who captures HDMI direct to a Sony notebook he paid $1,800 for.”

I had thought that the HDMI port on notebooks was output only, and that websites sometimes mistakenly refer to the HDMI port as an input or I/O port.

Can you give some details about how he does this?: What Sony notebook model, what NLE, capture settings, what codec he’s capturing with?

Thanks!