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rendering to m2t
I have built up an ever larger collection of vegas project files off of m2t video files. Up until now I have rendered to wmv (for web) and wish to consolidate them to individual archived masters.
I don’t want any quality loss so for best case I wish to render back to m2t. Is that possible? I use Sony Vegas Video 7.0
eric.
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> I don’t want any quality loss so for best case I wish to render back to m2t. Is that possible?
Yes, use the MainConcept MPEG-2 render type using the HDV 1080-60i template and that will create an m2t file. If you didn’t shoot 60i use HDV 1080-50i or whatever template matches your footage.
~jr
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Yes thank you that seems to work marvelously. Is it truely loss-less? I am not observing any quality loss.
You wouldn’t happen to know how to capture a still off a m2t frame?
eric.
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No, it is not truly lossless. Vegas will “smart-render” m2t files which means that if you didn’t apply any FX to the source on the timeline, it will copy the raw source footage to the target file “as is” with no loss of quality. If, however, you apply any FX, it will have to recompress every frame in order to process the FX and that is a lossy transfer. It should still look darn good even if it has to recompress. You would have to recompress over and over for a few generations before you would see any loss in quality.
If you want to take a snapshot, just use the snapshot button above the Vegas preview window. It will snap the quality of the preview so make sure you have it set to Best (Full) and you might also want to temporarily set your project to progressive so that the image is deinterlaced for you. Otherwise you should deinterlace it in Photoshop after the fact.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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