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What Are the Best settings for Standard Def in Vegas 10
I’m working on a car dealer infomercial that will run in a small TV channel that doesn’t broadcast in HD. The resolution will be 720×480. What can be a good session settings in Vegas Pro 10, and also what are good settings for rendering to regular SD.
The video was shot with a Canon 5D Mark II at 1920×1080 resolution, 29.97 FPS.
Thanks.
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You should check with the TV station. You need to render to a format that they can ingest. You usually don’t get to pick it. It gets dictated to you (and it’s usually vague and contradictory) 😉
DV AVI files are the best standard for SD. Everyone can read them and the quality is as good as it gets. I would render to DV Widescreen AVI if the station will accept it. I bet they want MPEG2 though. You’ll have to render it to their specs. Find out what they expect from you, then create a custom template that matches it.
~jr
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The station just want it on a Beta SP tape, I’m actually taking the file to a friend who’s going to transfer it to Beta. I want to get the best quality for the tape and want to know what could possibly be the best settings for the session.
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If your friend can ingest DV AVI files then I would create an NTSC DV Widescreen AVI file. While DV uses chroma sampling of 4:1:1 compared to Beta SP’s 4:2:2, it should still be acceptably high enough quality.
Does your friend have Vegas Pro? Can he ingest MXF format? If so you could render using Sony MXF with the NTSC MPEG IMX 50 Widescreen template. This would give you a 50Mbps 4:2:2 file which should print fine to BetaSP.
Does the TV station support 16:9 or do they only support 4:3? If they don’t support 16:9 then use a 4:3 template instead of the widescreen template. Also if they only accept 4:3 will they accept letterboxed 16:9 or do they expect you to deliver full screen 4:3?
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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