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WD Live TV Hub & Captures From Vegas
Hi all I could really use some advice for capturing video from my Sony Digital 8 Handycam into Vegas 11 for storage and playback on my new WD TV Live Hub. The media player can play just about anything you can throw at it and has a 1TB WD drive. What I would like to achieve is the best playback possible plus the ability to easily use the file to use to burn to DVD if I need to in the future. I don’t want to go overkill on a massive file size however I don’t want to sell myself short by skimping to save a few minutes or bytes. I’ve captured and burned my home movies to DVD before and wasn’t overly pleased with the results.
I’ve attached some specs of the media player and thanks I appreciate any suggestions. Apologies if in the wrong forum.
WD TV Live Hub Featured Specifications:
File Formats Supported:
Video – AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS, WMV9
Photo – JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG
Audio – MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS
Playlist – PLS, M3U, WPL Subtitle – SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB, SMI -
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First thing to do to promote high quality is to ensure that the project settings in Vegas 11 match the format of the video coming out of your Digital 8 Handycam. After that, burn to whatever standard you like. Just as your post implies, my WD Live box plays pretty much everything I’ve thrown at it.
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Thanks for the reply Max. So if all my captures are 720 x 480 that means I have to stick with that size when picking a rendering template? As you can tell I’m pretty new to this! What would be the best template to use in that case? Keeping in mind that I want to store and play these on the media server so size is not that big a deal. My raw DV AVI capture is about 5.48GB for 25 minutes of footage. For giggles I sent the capture to the WD HUB and it wouldnt play it. Thanks
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So your project settings should be 720×480 interlaced, lower frame first (I assume). When rendering you can render to any size, but it’s still a 720×480 picture blown up to whatever size you are making it. Most modern HDTVs will expand it to 1920×1080 automatically (unless you have a 720 HDTV of course). It seems the rendering package of choice nowadays is the MPEG-4 variety, but I still prefer the less-compressed MPEG-2. My suggestion is to just render it in the original size, 720×480. Let the TV expand it. If for some reason it doesn’t expand, then go back and re-render in 1920×1080. Sony AVC (MP4).
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