[David Timar]

Hi Ben,

1280×720, and all bitrates, from 56k to 3Mbit.

Please explain what you mean… 🙂

Thanks
David

[David Timar]

Thank you for the input.

One thing that keeps puzzling me though. There are currently text presets in Vegas. If I select one of these, it applies the effect TO THE TEXT I HAVE ALREADY TYPED in the event.

If I create my own preset, it saves the text information as well, which means I cannot apply it to any other text event, without it overwriting my text in that event.

Is there a way to create a text preset, that acts similar to the ones already in Vegas, and applies only the attributes to another text event without affecting the text of that event?

(hope that was clear :))

Thanks
David

[David Timar]

Gentlemen!

Your inputs have been more than valuable. I ended up getting the mentioned configuration, been working with the M2Ts, and have been paying attention to the Video Scopes (they became my new best friend).

Thanks again.

David

[David Timar]

Hi Justin,

Yep, did that. We got 2 identical JVC GY HD201E models, and tried playing the tapes in both cameras. Tried forwarding to a part on the tape, where the recording all of a sudden was fine, then rewinding, but nothing.

David

[David Timar]

Well this is getting more interesting. The timecode is displayed both in Sony Vegas and in HDVSplit, yet the captured file doesn’t have it.

Please, anybody ever used a JVC GY HD200 and Sony Vegas?

Thanks
David

[David Timar]

Hello Kyle,

Yep, you are right about the weight. Weight can give you that balance and therefore the steady shots. Unfortunately, in our situations the camera has to be handheld / on shoulder for about 9 hours straight, in a room of around 28 Celsius. 🙂

I am just plain worried about the JVC. We got another one shortly after the first one (before seeing these problems) and it produced 4 very nasty drop-outs in a single 20 minute recording. And this was the same type of camera, hardly used before it arrived from the dealership.

Right now, we are talking to the JVC guys, to see what they have to say about this.

David

[David Timar]

Hello,

As for my HARDWARE related questions, I pretty much got all of them out of the way, except:

Can somebody explain the difference between capturing at 50P at 1/50 and 25P at 1/50? I see no difference in the captured videos.

However, I still have questions related to Sony Vegas 7, which I am desperate to get answers to. The questions look long, but that’s because I like to give a lot of detail. 🙂

SONY VEGAS SOFTWARE RELATED QUESTIONS

1. Capture
1.1 Is there anything within Sony that must be payed attention to, or changed, in order to capture HDV footage via Firewire in the best quality/original ratios?
1.2 Capturing HDV footage creates M2T files. Right now I have to convert these to Cineform Intermediate AVIs. If I use the standard version of the Cineform codec (v2.5) that comes with Sony Vegas 7, the resulting AVI has less saturated colors than the one found in the latest Cineform Connect HD (v2.7).
1.2.1 What happens when this conversion takes place? How can the results differ?
1.2.2 Does this mean that I should stay away from intermediate files and beef up the system to handle m2t files on the timeline?
1.3 When using a control monitor for the JVC camera, the displayed image is perfect in every aspect. When the footage is captured in M2T, it becomes less saturated, almost losing most of its colors. I am confused on color spaces, but this seems to related a color space conversion.
1.3.1 How can I end up with the same colors that I see both on the control monitor and on the LCD of the JVC camera, on the captured M2T file?

2. Rendering
2.1 I read somewhere that Sony never uses more than 1Gb or RAM. Is this true?
2.2 Why is the “interleave every .250 seconds” set as default?
2.2.1 What is this for? Why would I want to take out more frames from my original footage?
2.2.2 If I leave this on and render a 30 min DV AVI file, Sony always creates an error and never finishes the rendering. Does turning this result in unforeseen problems with my footages? I have never witnessed any, but want to make sure.
2.3 Quality.
2.3.1 Is it true that I can leave the quality at Good, instead of Best, and get the same results?
2.3.2 I heard that Best is used if I have static images in the final footage.
2.4 Resolution
2.4.1 If my end result is to be a WMV, should I render in 1.0 pixel aspect ratio?
2.5 HDV
2.5.1 The Cineform codec includes options: Use Video Systems RGB and Use ITU.Bt.709 colorspace
2.5.2 If I captured HDV footage, where I know the end result will be WMV or DIVX AVI, which of the above options should I leave on/off for encoding and decoding?
2.5.3 Same question if the end result is to be DVD or back to HDV tape.

3. Interlace
3.1 Does Reduce Interlace Flicker really help when taking an interlaced footage and rendering to Progressive?
3.2 When I simply have an interlaced DV footage in a DV project, and I render the project as Progressive, what’s the best Deinterlace Method? I noticed that by setting this None, is actually better than setting Blend or Interpolate.

KEY QUESTIONS
– My main problem is the color of the captured/edited/exported images. I see perfect colors on cameras’ LCDs and on the control monitor. I capture the M2T files and if opened in Windows Media Player or Sony, they look faded. If I render to an intermediate AVI or DV, the colors become vivid, sometimes oversaturated. Am I to understand that the problem is that the HDV footage’s colorspace is ITU.Bt.709, but when displaying it on my computer LCD screen it is faded because the computer is displaying RGB? If so, what’s the trick to compensate and/or make sure that the colors I see in Sony, are what I will get when I render to Uncompressed AVI and then to WMV?

– Same question for DV. When captured, the colors look a bit oversaturated. When displayed on a TV screen, they are ever worse. I usually have to decrease saturation to a point where the images look almost colorless in Sony, while looking good on a TV screen.

– Interlacing. 50i gives me a nice smooth motion. This looks good on TV. What do I have to do, to keep the same quality after deinterlacing a DV footage, so it can be displayed a little nicer on a computer monitor?

Thanks
David T