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How to tell if a clip is HD
I imported a bunch of clips for a customer from a Hard Drive Camera. Now Vegas is crashing all the time and won’t render. I have tried to figure this out and wondering if my problem may be that these clips are HD.
Is there a way to tell? When I imported them, I basically click and drag.(I have worked on other Vegas projects during this fiasco and they are working fine, so I know it’s something to do with these clips.)
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When you click on the clip in the explorer window, at the very bottom of that window it will give you all the clips attributes. Dimensions, sample rate for audio, etc.
Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions -
You can also right-click the clip in the project media or an event and look at the properties. It should tell you the codec and dimensions there.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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….And should you change your Project Properties to match the properties of the supplied video?
I just realized that most of my customers’ supplied film was 720×480 Widescreen and I’ve been using the default “Project Properties” settings (720×480) and rendering in the the default .avi settings (720×480).
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Under Media it says this:
Stream: Video 1
Format: MPEG-2
704 x 480×32
Frame Rate: 29.97Under General it says this:
Name: MOV001 (33).MOD
Folder: C:Desktop\Olson\2010
Type: MainConcept MPEG-2
Size: 77.42 MB (79,282,176 bytes)Streams
Video: 00:02:00.120, 29.970 fps interlaced, 704x480x32, MPEG-2
Audio: 00:02:00.128, 48,000 Hz, Stereo, MPEGDoes any of this mean anything to anyone? It might as well be in Greek to me!
Thanks!
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There is no way to tell if it’s widescreen from those attributes because the pixel aspect ratio is not listed. The video is, unfortunately, only DVD quality MPEG2 which will degrade when you re-render it to produce your final output. This is less that optimal but if it’s what they gave you, then that’s what you have to work with.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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