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Mixed video project: XDCAM and HDV
I have a project that is 90% XDCAM video (1920×1080 25 fps progressive) and 10% HDV (1440×1080 29.970 fps interlaced). My project template is “HD 1080-50i (1920×1080, 25.000 fps)”. My render template is “Blu-ray 1920×1080-50i”.
The XDCAM portions look great, while the HDV portions are a mess. What should I do? Are there any settings or workarounds in Sony Vegas 10 to deal with such mixed video projects?
Or should I convert my HDV video to 1920×1080, 25.000 fps before importing in the project? If so, can you recommend tools or tutorials to use?
I’ve tried DVFilm Atlantis but the result was not very good. (They say on their website: “NTSC to PAL conversion only work with lower-field first”. And my HDV video is top-field-first – maybe this is the problem.) I also tried VirtualDub/Avisynth/MVTools but couldn’t find a decent avs script to work in this case.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Val Todorov
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3 Replies
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What does “a mess” actually mean? Feel free to post some screen shots.
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33, EVGA SR-2 Mobo, 48GB DDR3, GTX 580 3072MB, 16TB Attached Storage, Win7, Vegas 11 x64
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Hi Jeff,
This is a screenshot from the XDCAM source:
https://demiurgia.org/pics/xdcam.jpg
It is progressive and looks good.This is a screenshot from the HDV source:
https://demiurgia.org/pics/fx7.jpg
It is interlaced but still detail is acceptable and looks good on TV monitor.This is a screenshot from the rendered project (split screen of both sources):
https://demiurgia.org/pics/split.jpg
As you can see the HDV part on the right lost detail and looks pretty bad.I did convert the HDV video to 1920×1080, 25.000 fps before importing in the project. I did it in Sony Vegas 10. I used project template “HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080, 29.970 fps)” and render template “Blu-ray 1920×1080-50i”. Since the same render template is used for the final project, I assumed the HDV part is NOT re-compressed one more time (just cropped).
I was hoping I can find some good tutorial for achieving best results when converting from HDV 1080-60i to Blu-ray 1920×1080-50i.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Sorry to keep you waiting Val.
I looked at your photos. Try deinterlacing the HDV with resample off and adjust the frame rate to 25. Choose a section with motion, deinterlace with blend fields and a second one with interpolate fields. Decide which one works best.
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33, EVGA SR-2 Mobo, 48GB DDR3, GTX 580 3072MB, 16TB Attached Storage, Win7, Vegas 11 x64
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