[Carl Alessi]

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread over the past couple of days. I had some long-running questions that were answered with thorough replies.

Now that we’ve established that either DVI or an HDMI negotiated handshake may support 1080 60p, I wonder if a dedicated Set Top Box might be appropriate for this content? Obviously, it would depend upon the box’s output resolution. Any thoughts on this one?

[Carl Alessi]

This subject has gotten more interesting than I thought it would be when I opened the thread. Let’s see if I can summarize what I’ve learned so far:

• NTSC is limited to approximately 30 fps.
• ATSC does not inherently have such a limitation. Neither does HDMI 1.2. It depends upon the monitor.

All of this causes me to circle back to my original question: for those of us with a Panasonic TM700 camera who want to edit its 1080 60p content in Sony Vegas, what is:

• The best format and resolution to render to, depending upon…
• The device (possibly a blu-ray player by way of a mounted SD Card) that you would play that content from.

Any takers on the last two points?

–Carl

[Carl Alessi]

John,

“TV via DVI it can of course playback at any frame rate because it’s essentially a computer monitor at that point. I guess connecting the camera directly falls into that category.”

I don’t think connecting the TM700 camera directly to the TV would support a higher frame rate, given that it uses an HDMI 1.2 cable.

-Carl

[Carl Alessi]

Thanks everyone…this explains why I was having so much trouble locating information about playback at 60p. I was asking the wrong question, not realizing the basic truth that even new 1080p flatscreens are still constrained by the NTSC 29.97 fps standard.

I guess I’ll have to go back to the decision of rendering footage from my TM700 to either 720 30p, or 1080 60i.

-Carl

[Carl Alessi]

Thanks for the reply, Danny…

Actually, I have a TM700 as well. But my question doesn’t pertain to playback of the original .m2ts files (I’m also using an i7), but rather the playback of an edited, rendered format that can be played through my widescreen TV. I’m aware that the current blu-ray specs do not support 1080 60p, but I’m wondering if there are blu-ray players that will support edited content by way of an SD card (I know several players now support SD Card playback of the camera’s original content, but again, I’m looking to play back edited content).

For example: can I render the content out of Vegas with a custom template to, say, mpeg2, then copy the files to an SD card and play them back via a blu-ray player currently on the market?

Carl

[Carl Alessi]

https://www.borisfx.com/webinar/Custom-Effects-Titles-RED.php

[Carl Alessi]

For what it’s worth, I also noticed the phenomenon of switched clips in Vegas 10c yesterday (it actually transposed an AVI file for an M2TS file).

I’ve suffered with Vegas losing its link to external files on a random basis through several versions now, but this was a new one.

[Carl Alessi]

John,

Just one follow-up: do you know if I’ll require the standard version of iZotope RX, or the “Advanced” version to support Vegas 64 bit as a plug-in? I hope it’s the former, as the Advanced version is considerably more expensive.

[Carl Alessi]

Thanks, John. I’ll give iZotrope a try.

Carl

[Carl Alessi]

I had Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum version 8. I have the Serial Number for the product, although I don’t have the product installed right now.

I’ve actually gone ahead and started purchasing the necessary plug-ins from NewBlue. I’m going to be upgrading Sony Vegas to a 64 bit version in the near future anyway, so a purchase of the correct plug-ins will be essential by then.

Thanks for all of your help,

Carl