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Use of Proper Template – Vegas 11
Hello again,
Please help my confusion. I am shooting “High Definition Video” using a Nikon D5100 “still” DSLR camera. The camera’s setting (one of several choices) indicates: “1080/30” and “1920×1080 30fps” – apparently they mean the same thing.What Vegas template should I use, to properly match the above format? (There is a “HD 1080-60i (1920×1080, 29.970 fps)” but no “30i” as I had expected to find.)
Or, do you recommend some other “Project Properties” template? The final result will be an HD video (probably played in standard screens, (maybe with automatic letterboxing?), and an MP4 version for YouTube.
Thank you,
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9 Replies
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30i is shorthand for 29.97.
When you go into “Render As”, do any of the Mpeg presets have an “=” in front of it?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I don’t think the 5100 or any Nikon or Canon dslr shoots 1080i. Use the template for HD 1080 60i and change the field order to none/progressive. For some reason there is no template for 1080 30p which is a very common format and is most likely what you are shooting. Save the preset for added convenience.
Ian
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In the Project Properties box (after you go to File—Project Properties), there’s a little icon in the upper right corner that looks like a filmstrip and a file folder. If you run your mouse over it it will say Match Media Video Settings. Click this icon and then browse to a file that you’ve put into your project. After editing, when you want to render, click File—Render As, and then click Match Project Settings in the Render As box. Most of the time, this works. But if you run into a situation where what you need does not match the project settings, just pick the Main Concept AVC/AAC drop-down arrow and pick whatever template matches what you need the video for. If you’re going to put the video on YouTube, you might want to adjust the encoding bit rate. You generally don’t need about 10Mb/sec. That is, unless you like really large files and really long upload times.
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Thank you, Steve. When I push the “Render” command, under “MainConcept MPG2….” there are only two settings with the “=” sign: Program Stream NTSC Widescreen; and DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream.
(I use the “Program Stream”, realizing there may be some loss in audio quality, but for my amateur work it’s not critical.)
JohnJohn23GR
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Thank you, Rick. I found the “Match Media…Settings” & followed your directions. To my surprise, upon the command: Render As, Match Project Settings, the resulting list did not include the choice of MPG2 at all. It included among others AVC/MVC with a star, at 16Mbps; one could lower that to a non-matching selection, by un-checking the “Match Project Settings,’ to say: “Internet 1280×720-30p” which shows 8Mbps, but I have no idea what this will do, but it’s less than 10Mbps which you recommend, I gather, for YouTube?
But…what happened to the higher quality MPG2 for making DVDs?
JohnJohn23GR
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For YouTube, it’s a good idea to go with the Main Concept MP4 AVC/AAC template. You might be able to find it if you uncheck the Match Project Settings box under the Render As menu. Then if you click the drop-down arrow, you’ll find a result of Internet HD 1080p or Internet HD 720p. You can customize one of those templates from there. Depending on your subject matter, you can pick constant bit rate and change it to 4MB/sec or 10MB/sec. Then just go up to the Template Name in the Custom Settings box and change the name of the template to something you’ll recognize, then click the floppy “save” icon. Voila! You’ve created your own template! But if you de-select the Match Project Settings under the Render As menu, you should see MainConcept MPEG2 settings. If you click the drop-down arrow there, you should see DVD Architect and Blu-ray settings that you can use, depending on which format you’re going display your work on. Again, you can customize these templates to suit your taste. I find that in working in HD, since most DVD players will up-convert SD to HD, I burn down-convert my HD to SD and let the player up-convert it back to HD. This yields me spectacular results in most cases. Just a thought, at least it gives you more options.
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Thank you again Rick. I will now start customizing for fun, something I had not done before. YouTube: Look out!
John23GR
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Post a link back here to what you put up. I’d like to see it.
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If you are making a DVD then use the DVD Architect NTSC template. The “Program Stream” is the file you would sent to a streaming server, which very few of us have access to. Using anything other than the DVD Architect templates for making DVD’s using DVD Architect is asking for problems.
There is no “higher quality MPG2 for making DVDs”. In the US, a DVD is MPEG2 encoding, 29.97 frames per second interlaced, 720 × 480 pixels (SD) and 704 × 480 pixels for widescreen. There are no other formats in the DVD spec.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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