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Question re HDV editing process
Hi to all. I want to ask your opinions about my whole process for working with HDV material. Please feel free to comment or add suggestions how to improve my process. But please keep it fairly simple, because I do only my home videos, so I am not that tech savvy as some of you are here in this forum.
My camcorder: Sony HDR-HC7, (DV tape) and working with Vegas Pro 8.
My work flow: capturing from camera to vegas with project properties HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080, 29.970fps). This captures in .m2t format. I add these files to timeline and do all my editing with them.
For playback currently use Dvico Tvix M-6500A media player hooked to HDTV. It plays a lot of various files.( For some this player may not mean much, so to simplify things lets say I wath most of my final files through VLC player on my PC).
After a lot of rendering tests I chose to render using “HDV 1080-60i” template which saves as m2t file. Again I am not sure if this is the best format, so please if you have any suggestions on how to do better rendering without losing quality please do so.
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I think your workflow is fine, editing m2t if you machine works well with them. But as a final video to watch, m2t with VLC works but the interlacing for me is noticable and you have to tell VLC to blend, or other everytime you start a new video. I usually render to Windows Media Video, 8 mbps, the best non-customized WMV preset or a HD MPEG and play with Media player. M2T is needed for printing back to tape. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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Thanks Danny, at least this re-assures me that I am doing the right way. I also tried to render to WMV as you suggested. I am noticing a bit less “flickering” in picture on TV screen from my player. Both m2t and wmv files look fine when played back on PC monitor.
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