Sony vegas rendering

[John Rofrano]

[Rion Gilpin] “I shot on a Sony FX1 at 1080 60i and I’m wondering what format i should render these files so that I can have them on DVD’s without taking away quality. “

A DVD will NEVER have the quality of HD because it has 5x less information. Set-top DVD players require MPEG2 files. I would render the video with the MainConcepot MPEG-2 template and the DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream template. Then render your audio as Dolby Digital AC3 and give it the same filename (just a different extensions of .ac3). Use these two files in your DVD authoring program.

If you have a Blu-ray player you can burn AVCHD to DVD media and retain your HD quality but that is kind of silly given how cheap Blu-ray burners and media have become.

~jr

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[Rion Gilpin]

Ok great. That’s actually what I have been doing, but I wasnt sure. Is there a way to have my playback work right and have a faster render time? I’m rendering 15 minutes of footage (mulitcamera) with no FX and it’s taken 6 hours.

Rion

[John Rofrano]

[Rion Gilpin] ” Is there a way to have my playback work right and have a faster render time? I’m rendering 15 minutes of footage (mulitcamera) with no FX and it’s taken 6 hours.”

Get a faster computer is about all. What are the specs on your PC? That does seem a bit long.

~jr

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[Rion Gilpin]

my computer is a Compaq Presario SR2020NX (Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz, 512MB RAM, 160GB HDD) I have a radion 4600 series graphics card and 2 more ghz installed. The only thing I can think of is that I’m running windows 32 and not 64. I’m trying to edit in mulitcamera mode, but playback being slow and choppy makes it extremely hard to know when I have to cut to a different camera view.

Rion

[John Rofrano]

[Rion Gilpin] “my computer is a Compaq Presario SR2020NX (Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz, 512MB RAM, 160GB HDD) I have a radion 4600 series graphics card and 2 more ghz installed. “

That computer is inadequate for editing HD and certainly not up to the task of multi-camera HD. Sony recommends at least a dual core 2.8Ghz for HD editing. You have a single core and while Sony recommend a dual core, most people use a quad core for editing HD. So my recommendation to get a faster computer is probably still a good option.

If you want to stay with the computer you have, you can use VASST GearShift to create proxy files that will edit easily in Vegas Pro.

~jr

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