Dave Osbun
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I’ve never heard of a camera recording 50mb/s AVCHD files, so I think there’s really no comparison between your 50mb/s MOV clips and the AVCHD option your camera offers.
Dave
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I don’t think you’re going to see any visible differences in the preview window between these two cards, but I guess it depends on what types of clips you are using (MOV, MTS, AVI, etc.).
If it were me, i’d would purchase the best card that fits my budget that is on the Sony approved/tested video card list.
Dave
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Are you seeing the lagging in the preview window? If so, try lowering the preview window quality. If that helps your issue, your system is telling you that your hardware isn’t up to snuff.
Dave
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+2!
With the low price of hard drives today, why don’t you just buy a large hard drive for each project you’re shooting, and store the original clips on it? You don’t need an SSD- just a basic 5400 rpm Seagate (or equivalent) hard drive can easily be had for under $60 on NewEgg. You can easily get an external hard drive box, plop the drive in, copy the original clips, take out the drive and store it in its original anti-static bag and file it away.
I have done the above with all of my original family video clips. I actually just purchased 5 of these drives a few weeks ago, and they’re 7200rpm drives:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148767Dave
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I also record in the AVCHD format, 24mb/s with my Sony NEX-VG10. I don’t create Blu Rays since I don’t have a Blu Ray recorder- I only make DVDs when needed. I output using the Main Concept MPEG-2 Widescreen as well, but I usually crank up the bit rates and also enable 2-pass since i’m never in a time crunch. My final DVDs have always looked great and haven’t really seen any differences between the final DVD output and my original clips, expect for fast-moving objects (ie- sports car racing).
Dave
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Not all cameras pass uncompressed via HDMI out to an external recorder. For example, my Sony prosumer camera records 24mb/s to an internal SDHC card. If I hook up an external recorder via the HDMI output, i’ll still only get 24mb/s. My camera doesn’t offer clean HDMI out.
Make sure your camera does offer clean HDMI out, because if it doesn’t you’re just wasting your time & money.
Dave
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It’s quite possible that the video is freezing (and audio keeps playing) because this rendered file’s quality is actually TOO HIGH for your current system to play it smoothly. If you want no video hangs, you’ll have to decrease the quality of the video.
If you’re looking for best video quality, you already have it with your current render output choice.
Dave
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An IPS monitor is the way to go. They are more expensive than your typical flat screen LCD but they are BY FAR the best monitors for those that work in media creation.
Regarding your video card question: it all depends on what’s in your system now. If you have a higher-quality laptop it should have an nVidia or Radeon GPU, and it’ll power any monitor fine. If your system has Intel integrated graphics it’ll still work fine for video editing but it’s not the best if you like to play video games on it.
Dave
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+1 on what John said above. I was having the same problem as you, utilizing quite large JPG files on the timeline and having Vegas do the resize. I was able to achieve much better results by resizing the JPG in Photoshop to 1920×1080 and plopping the resized file on the timeline in place of the original.
Dave
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Check your preview window quality setting. Set it to ‘best’ and it’ll probably look better.
Dave