Viewing Vegas Edited Video as HD on HDTV

[Terry Esslinger]

I am assuming the HC3 is not a tape based camera other wise you could just do a PTT.

[Mary Waitrovich]

If you can’t print back to tape on your camera, you should be able to render an HD wmv file and play it back on your TV through a laptop. I’ve done this on my Sony Bravia that has VGA input (or DVI to HDMI).

Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison

[Bob Yantorno]

Hi Terry –

It is a tape based camcorder. Not sure what PTT is. I have 2 Vegas tutorials and have not found out how to do it in either one of them. I can burn a DVD but I want HD and I thought the only way to do that is to put my edited video back on the camcorder tape and play in thru the HD connector cable.

Thanks –

Bob

[Bob Yantorno]

Hi Mary –

I should be able to print it to tape (I have Vegas 8 Platinum) but can’t find out how unless I render it which I don’t want to do. I don’t have a laptop.

Thanks –

[Mike Kujbida]

PTT = Print To Tape.
Sorry but, using Vegas, you have no choice in this.
You have to render the file first if you want to do a PTT.

[Bob Yantorno]

Hi Mike –

Which format do I use for rendering.

I did use MPG2 and then sent it to the camcorder but nothing shows when I play it thru the HDTV.

Bob

[Mike Kujbida]

Bob, I know how to do a PTT for an SD (720 x 480) project but, as I haven’t worked with HDV yet, my only siggestion is to see what the Vegas help file says about this procedure.
I had a quick look in the help file (for the full version of Vegas) and it has a separate section for doing an HDV print-to-tape. Have a look through it as it seemed to be a good guide.

[Terje A. bergesen]

You should Print To Tape using an MPEG-2 HDV template. If you do not see anything on your HD TV when you play it from your camcorder, something went wrong in the Print to Tape phase.

[Bob Yantorno]

Hi –

Thanks – I just tried it and I don’t see anything on the tape. Boy am I feeling not only frustrated but dumb. I am not really technologically illiterate but sure feel that way. Vegas is so powerful but has so many options and choices that it can be overwhelming.

[Terje A. bergesen]

If you can try to explain what you are doing, then that would be a help. Also, if you tell us what Vegas is saying to you while you are doing this, then that would also be good.