Dan Achatz
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How about using your video camera to shoot the cord patterns off of your LCD computer screen…
It might look better. If not Print them out and shoot them off of the printed paper.
It’s low tech, but it should work..
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I have a Dell Inspiron 600. 1.6 ghz. I edit HDV on it when my desktop is tied up rendereing large projects. It works great as long as I use an extrenal 7200 RPM Drive. Rendering takes a little longer then on my screaming desktop.
If I had to give up one of my PC’s, it would be my desktop.
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This image is over sharpened to begin with. Right after you downsize it to 72dpi, try blurring it by .2 pixels. Then downsize it to the final size.
As I look at the image, I can also tell that it has too much information (Detail) for a standard def TV to resolve in a corner MTV type logo insert. This will cause it to sit there and vibrate. You may have to go into photoshop and take parts of it out.
Personally, I think you shouldn’t use it in any form other than the full sized one.
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NTSC 16:9 widescress will look like 4:3 with tall skinny people. The reason for this is that a 16:9 NTSC monitor streches the picture sideways to fill the screen.
You may have noticed that some people who have 16:9 TV’s always have short fat people on the screen. That’s beacuse they are stretching a 4:3 image sideways to fill the screen.
If you are rendering an MPEG 2 for DVD, just select NTSC widescreen and it will render out for NTSC (Note in Vegas you need to select include audio on the audio tab. DVDA defaults to include audio). Your DVD player should letter box the signal or play it full screen depending on your set up. You will need to make sure that your DVD player and TV are also set for widescreen.
If you are rendering as a WIndows Media file, Real Media, or Quicktime, you want to choose a 16:9 format or you may want to consider choosing a custom size to render to, like 640 x 360.
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If you set you project size in DVDA to NTSC Wide screen, and your footage is shot and edited in 16:9, then it will show 16:9 on 16:9 sets and 4:3 letter boxed on normal sets. Once again will have to verify that your DVD player is set correctly.
You can check your aspect ration on the DVD by playing it back on your computer in Windows Media or whatever DVD player program you have loaded. If it shows up as 16:9 on your computer then it is 16:9.
Will you loose anything making it 16:9? The answer to that is a complicated one. Because 16:9 in not the normal television signal, set manufacturers and equipment manufacturers came up with an electronic anamorphic conversion that records 16:9 images in on the 4:3 signal. That’s why some video tapes that were made for 16:9 sets look squished on 4:3 sets and everyone looks tall and skinny.
Set manufactures un squish the image. In doing all this, it is true that you are losing some resolution. It’s not really enough to worry about. Could you see it if you recorded some test charts. The answer to that is yes.
I make all my DVD wide screen. If my clients comment on it I only have to point out that their next TV set they have will be 16:9…
Dan
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When you build you DVD in DVDA, you have to go to properties and choose video project format: NTSC Widescreen. If you do this, then you DVD player will play it letter box on a 4:3 set and when setup properly, 16:9 on you 16:9 Set. If you don’t select Widescreen, it defaults to 4:3 letterbox.
Also if you rendered the MPEG-2 Stream directly out of Vegas, you need to also select in the temp let DVDA-Widescreen. Also I’m still using Vegas 5, and if I render the MPEG out of Vegas, I have to remember to go to the Audio tab and click include audio, or it just encodes the video stream.
If you have already done all this, then the problem is probably an issue with the setup on your DVD player.
I hope one of these ideas help.
Dan
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If you don’t select and bit rate and just leave it in the default, you will encode Quicktime uncompressed for you project size. Also you can go in to the video format window and choose component and you’ll get the highest possible quicktime output and the largest file size.
You will not be able to play the component file back, but you can pull it back into the time line and render just about any other type of file from it. Also, this type of file is a great way to get 1920 x 1080 out of Vegas 5. You can render it to your firewire drive and then take the Drive to your local online house with finalcut pro HD and have them print it to HDCam or DVC-Pro HD.
Dan
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Don is right, DVCam and Mini DV are the same video spec.
The difference is in track width and that makes DVCam slightly more robust. It also allows the Audio and Video to be locked together. In Mini DV the video and audio are simply started and stopped at the same time and are not actually locked. All this might make a big diffence if you were able to record for several days on a single tape, but in a 30 second commercial, not so much.
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The best way is to light your backdrop or background so that when you expose for the background you get the Silhouette that your looking for. Just for grins we’ll say that at f8, your talent is a perfect silhouette.
The next step is to light you talent or foreground so that you have the right video levels at f8.
Then all you need to do when your ready is turn off the foreground lights. A dimmer or a light board might help here.
Make sure that when you add your foreground light, that you don’t add additional background light.
This should work well for you.
Dan
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What were the AVI’s orginally made in? I remember getting some really highres AVI’s that were made in a graphics work station. I had to download a speical decoder for that AVI codec. After I did that everything worked great.
Please note that Vegas uses other peoples encoders and decoders to work. You can code and decode almost anything as long as you have right the plugin. Real Media, QuickTime, Windows Media, and others.
Dan