Danny Hays
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Hi Greg.
If you just want to watch the rendered videos on your computer, then try the Windows media video 1440 x 1080 8 mbs preset. these play fine on a fast computer and look great. If your going to use the rendered videos in another editing program afterwards and have planty of hard drive space, use the uncompressed preset. The Cineform avi preset is a very lossless format and saves drive space greatly compared to uncompressed. This format is also more efficient in Vegas and works well with slower computers. It also can handle multiple renders, and chromakeying without loosing hardly any quality.
What are you wanting to watch the final videos on? Danny Hays -
Hi Øyvind Lilleberg. What are you wanting to watch the final video on? DVD architect is a standard definition authorizing program. 720 x 480 resolution. If your recording in high def which your camera does, you will lose quality by putting it on a regular DVD. If it has to be on a disk, you will need a blu ray authorizing program which DVDA does not do yet if I’m not mistaken. I work with HDV alot and I don’t have a blu-ray player, burner or auth, software yet. I render my vids to WMV 1440 x 1080 8mbs and use a computer to watch them. Almost every HDTV has a VGA input to connect a computer to as a secondary or even primary display. For the cost of a blu-ray burner and player, you could buy another fast computer, add a second video card for the HDTV and have money to spare. It takes a fast computer to play back high bitrate WMV files. Windows media player will play the WMVHD files fine. I only use VLC to play m2t files, (Sony’s and Panasonic tape based HDV camcorders native format) Windows media player wont play these files as of yet. Also AC3 files for audio are usualy only needed if your doing surround sound. If your audio is stero, you can use the Main concept ntsc DVD template with audio and still use DVDA to make a standard def DVD. If the video can be watched on a fast computer, WMVHD is the way to go I think. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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I’m not running Vista but I have a HVR-A1J, same thing but with optional Jananese menues and I can capture with Vegas 8. Try another capture app if oyu have one to see if it’s Vegas or not. I think Windows movie maker can capture HDV just to see where the problem is. Danny HAys
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Until you are outputing 1920 x 1080P video you are not seeing what the monitor will produce. But if you were to purchace a HDTV, I would spring for 1920 x 1080P as their coming down in price and anything less will be atiquated shortly. Plus plug your computer into one and use it for your monitor just one time. You’ll love it. The HDTV’s now days have so many inputs that you can plug in tons of things into it at once and use the remote to switch between them.
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I gather your editing standard definition so the new TV has better resolution than the video. 720 x 480. I think what you might be seeing that you don’t like is the interlacing. Like a combed edge of things that move fast. Interlaced video looks good on a crt tv due to the phosphor glow takes a bit to fade so the interlacing can make the video look smoother, not so jumpy. An LCD TV shows the interlacing very well. Try going to your project settings and setting the interlace settings to none “Progressive”. If you like the way it looks better there’s a setting for this in the render settings too. Yes I think it’s a move in the right direction as LCD TVs are more popular than ever but there are still crts out there. It’s still good to see what it’ll look on one too. Danny Hays
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I use a LCD HDTV as my second monitor and it works great. Does you computer have a second display adapter VGA out? Thats how I connect my laptop. My desktop has 2 DVI outs so I use a DVI to hdmi cable to connect that one too. Danny Hays
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Does the computer do anything when you plug in the camera? Like new device found or those typical messages you get when using firewire and usb. Does your device manager show the Texas instrument IEEE-1394 device is working correctly? Do you have a firewire drive or something you can test the port with. Make sure you plug the camera in first, turn it on and let windows see it 1st. If windows won’t neither will Vegas. Danny Hays
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Well I didn’t have any luck last night with the test I did. I made a simple .VEG file, saved as Avid legacy aaf, put the aaf file in the same folder as the media but Media composer wouldn’t open it. It said could not open a file but asked if I’d like to try anyway. I clicked yes and the time line looked as if it worked, audio and video in the proper tracks and in the same time as I had in Vegas but the media was offline. I tried to re-link but it wouldn’t. I tried with the other aaf option with embedded media checked but I had the same results. If i get more time to play with it I will but for now I’m unsuccessful. I’ll monitor this post for further details. Danny Hays
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I’m not sure about EDL files from Vegas working in Avid. The Sony Vegas manual says their EDL’s are not the same as traditional NLE’s and are not intended for a project interchange with other editing apps. Vegas will however save as “Avid legace AAF” .txt file and with the media files in the same folder, Avid should open it. Since you have Vegas now, a simple test will show you. I’m curious now and if I gete a chance I’ll try it and let you know. Danny Hays
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Try a very small amount of Glausin blur to remove noise or grain. Blurs can help with a grainy video if used in a small amount in my opinion. Danny Hays