[Deledi Bingham]

Thanks for the help Jason, A great solution to my problem.

It’s interesting that the BMIP won’t record dolby digital 5.1 because it seems that the audio is being recorded (as it can be heard in a media player) it just can’t be edited or rendered correctly.

[Deledi Bingham]

Haha… thanks everyone.. I figured there would be an easier way than what I was doing >_<

[Deledi Bingham]

Thanks for the responses.. I tried all of those programs you recommended but all of them had the static track.

And unfortunately my onboard realtek audio does not have the ability to run the sound through stereo mix, I read for hours on forums to figure out it was not possible.

I did finally figure it out though. I installed a sound recorder that uses a virtual driver to play software sound through the program then I recorded the audio from windows media player into a .wav file and cut it onto the original video footage.

Thanks for your help you guided me in the right direction

[Deledi Bingham]

I can only speak from personal experience but I have used Sony Vegas 9 for about 1 year and have never had it crash on me once.

So I don’t think Sony Vegas is unstable as much as something within your computer is unstable or your copy of Vegas might have a problem?

Do you have another computer you can try to install it on and test it with?

[Deledi Bingham]

Well thanks again for the information.

So you are saying an .mp4 rendered file uploaded to youtube is going to have better quality than uploading an .avi file rendered with the MJPEG codec?

How can that be since the .avi file was the original file recorded from the BlackMagic Intensity Pro?

Sorry for my ignorance, I am new to video editing.

[Deledi Bingham]

Thanks for the info Kristian.

Do you happen to have a link to the graph that shows how much MB/s recording uncompressed footage the BMIP takes up?

I know I had it somewhere but I can’t seem to find it.

And just an opinion question, but how much improvement in video quality will I get recording uncompressed footage versus what I’m doing now recording with the MJPEG codec?

[Deledi Bingham]

Since you are recording M-JPEG I would keep the extracted clips in M-JPEG format. Rendering to M-JPEG should not loose too much quality. You might try using VirtualDub and tell it just to copy the video and it should copy the clips out without re-rendering.

Hello John,

Thank you for this information I did not realize that I could even render the clips in M-JPEG format. I was just rendering all of the clips in .mp4 format because I was told that it has the best quality when rendering clips to upload to YouTube.

I will also try VirtualDub and see if I can just copy the clips without re-rendering.

Also, I was reading the YouTube help for supported file types and they post:
Here’s the list of some well-known formats which YouTube supports:

WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
.MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files – (typically supporting h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
.AVI (Many cameras output this format – typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
.MPEGPS (Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
.WMV
.FLV (Adobe – FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)

So I might be able to upload the actual .avi files and keep the video in MJPEG format.

Regards,
Trent

[Deledi Bingham]

Thanks Kristian,

If you don’t mind do you happen to know the answer to my 3rd question about high speed footage? Don’t you have to capture the footage at the same FPS and resolution as the source?

The camera’s in question are located here:
https://www.casio.com/products/Cameras/EXILIM_High-Speed/

3. Would the BlackMagic Intensity Pro be able to record “high speed” footage? I have been looking at some EXILIM High-Speed Cameras which seem to be Digital Camera’s on steroids and they have a feature where they can record low resolution high speed footage (up to 1000 FPS). I have always loved high speed footage since you can create some of the coolest slow motion pictures ever! If I was to capture footage in high speed could I then take it off the camera via the BlackMagic Intensity Pro and retain the high speed footage?

[Deledi Bingham]

I am new to video editing so I apologize if my answer isn’t helpful.

But to my knowledge you can render or export your HD footage in whatever way you would like.

I don’t use adobe premiere, I use Sony Vegas Pro 9, but I can take HD footage and then export it to an HD .mpg file without any problem at all. When you say that you always end up with an SD file perhaps you just need to edit your render settings when exporting the file?

You also said you were trying to put that footage on a DVD. I’m pretty sure that the highest resolution a standard DVD supports is 480 so I don’t think it is possible to take HD footage and implant it into a DVD. You could use an HDDVD or BluRay DVD which could support up to 1080.

To answer your question, I don’t see how recording in HD and downconverting to SD for a DVD would have any advantages over recording in SD and burning that SD footage to a DVD.

But that’s only speculation.