Brett Nolan
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Found this on the Vasst Website
“Further, you don’t want to be editing the raw MPEG transport stream because you’ll endure a potentially significant loss of quality without the intermediary. When you render to print to tape, if you wish to print to your HDV camera, the intermediary will re-convert the intermediate stream to the MPEG format once again, providing you with a great image. “
I have been editing the raw MPEG-ts stream (exactly what Sony captures) I set my project properties to it and I render to it, am I not supposed to be doing this?
B.Nolan
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As for rendering, I generally set my project settings prior to editing by using the properties assign method, it always says 1440x1080i (upper field, etc.) I leave everything else the same. I render to the DVD-A wide-screen template, using best or I export as 1080i MPEG-2 (usually says “no re compression required”) and use Pro-coder to make my DVD files. I’ve been known to use a bit-rate calculator on longer projects.
That’s really nice of you,…thank you, and I’ll try using DVD-A for the down-conversion. Might be the camera…it’s a Sony HVR-HD1000U.
By putting the DVD bit rate at 9600kbs will that not cause problems for a few low end DVD player users? I always thought 8k was the safest, this is going to be distributed in a rural area where we only have a Wal-Mart you know we all have the $35 Snagnavox players.
I’ll figure out how to send you some footage.
Any other help is greatly appreciated.
B.Nolan
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Thanks for the quick response, So….do the proper settings require my making the DVD-A project 4:3 or 16:9?
B.Nolan
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Thanks for the responses, the problem seems to happen after I re-encode to DVDA-MPEG2….they look bad on my computer before I ever import them into DVDA, blurry, depth of field is lost, almost hazy, just bad.
(cue the “it’s MPEG-2 what do you expect”? comments, but that’s not the case, I cannot stress how much I understand I’m going to lose some quality)
But let’s fast forward to post burning of the DVD. If I play the DVD and hit fast forward (x2,x4) on my remote it looks fine, almost like I’m missing every other frame while playing at 1x speed, which may be in fact what is happening. I noticed that if I do this it looks like what I would expect, not HDV by any means but definitely not VHS.
B.Nolan
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– 5-6 minute long scenes from a concert I filmed,
– slow to moderately slow movement
– low light
– shutter speed at 60 on both cams (Sony HVR-1000U and Sony Z1U)The HD export/renders/encodes prior to SD conversion look fine, in the end, after rendering them with the DVD-A preset I import the separate scenes into DVDA and create a playlist, my DVDA settings are default 16:9, 4.7GB 8,000kb/s (I’ve been recommended this standard bitrate for compatibility)
The problem is that they look bad before I even get them into DVDA.
B.Nolan
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Thank you for your response, I have access to compressor. I just want to turn the clips into a self-contained movie without changing the 1440×1080, etc. Even a 20G file would be fine as long as it would play in Windows.
Would exporting it at “default settings” keep it’s native format?
B.Nolan
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