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Long Distance: It’s the next best thing to being there….
I have an offer of help with the video editing from someone who has Vegas Pro, but is in another country. Is it possible (and practical) for me to convert AVCHD .mts files to Cineform .avi, apply Noise Reduction, and then upload these files (maybe twenty minutes of Cineform .avi) to my website, along with any .png’s, and then he can do the bulk of the editing?
Then when he is done he can send upload it back to my website for my after-thoughts, and then final rendering and uploading to Vimeo and YouTube?
And would our versions of Vegas have to be the same?
What practical limitations would I bump into?
Thanks.
Norman Willis
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The version of Vegas would have to be the same. Cineform will be significantly larger than the AVCHD files. If the media was too big to upload, you might want to purchase a 32GB thumb drive and place the files on that and mail it to him. Then he could do his thing and copy the files back to the thumb drive and mail it back.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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if he’s just doing cuts and dissolves, you could get around the issue of different versions of vegas by saving the project as AAF file, and the recipient could then import that into their version of vegas…….
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What some people like to do is use VASST GearShift to create small proxy files and then they mail the proxy files back and forth and edit with them. Then can reconnect them with the fullsize media on their own PC at any time. (just something else to consider)
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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OK, supposing one started with 6MB worth of AVCHD files (about 30 minutes’ worth of video), how big/small would the proxies be?
Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org -
It depends on what codec, bitrate, and resolution you use. 30 min of 1920×1080 AVCHD should be around 3.6GB at 16Mbps (around 123MB/min). You could use GearShift to make DivX 6 proxies that are 720×480 widescreen and they would be around 17MB/min or about 510MB for 30 minutes (small enough to fix on a CD). You could probably get similar results with the x264vfw codec as well.
I’m not sure all of this is necessary. 30 minutes of AVCHD will fit on a single data DVD that is easily mailable to someone.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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