Douglas Spotted eagle
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We do this fairly regularly, but bear in mind that if your system resources aren’t up to par, then capturing while editing or rendering will be out of the question.
Rendering and editing at the same time is easy/commonDouglas Spotted Eagle
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Sebastian,
We’re going in circles here.
You cannot deliver HD in a PAR of 1.0 outside of a computer. It is delivered at 1.333 on all playback devices. If you want to keep it at 1920, I’ve already told you how. Very few players/applications can read a 1920 x 1080 file in AVC format.
I’ve previously explained that “Smart rendering” is not supported for AVCHD in *any* NLE system. Call it smart-rendering, non-reencode rendering, whatever you’d like it’s all the same. Every frame in AVCHD is reencoded. It has nothing to do with GOP, it has to do with how the format is decoded, how the NLE developer chooses to deal with it, and how the NLE is set up to allocate/absorb resources.
I’m aware of the ridulous, effectively useless software Panasonic bundles with it’s camera. I own an SD1 and and SD5, and have reviewed them both.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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You’re not losing any pixels. The format used in the consumer AVCHD camcorders is 1440 x 1080 with a PAR of 1.333, just like HDV, just like what the satellite and cable networks broadcast.
In Vegas, you have frame-accurate editing without a reencode or cut list. Yes, I’m familiar with Video Redo, just as I’m familiar with Womble and other similar tools.
Your system still has to decode/read the frames. Video Redo isn’t an NLE. Nor is Womble. NLE’s are different beasts than frame encoders.Additionally, you can set a custom frame size in the Vegas encoder (assuming you’re using a fully licensed version) and set the vertical to 1920. But what are you expecting to play it with/on? Blu-ray and HD DVD both will only accept a 1440 x 1080 file.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Sony *does* fully support AVCHD. I’m not sure what you’re getting at. If “fully supporting” means smart rendering, then you’ve got a long wait ahead of you. You don’t have a machine that can work that fast.
Additionally, 1440 *IS* real 1080i/p.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Smart Rendering of AVCHD isn’t possible in Vegas (Nor any other NLE, AFAIK).
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Bear in mind that by rendering to a DV avi first, you’re not only increasing render time, you’re also losing a fair amount of quality/chroma information.
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Fades are not done in the DVD authoring tool; they’re done in the NLE or audio editing tool.
The slide refers to a slide show. Vegas can create/time slides to music. I don’t have the owners manual with me, so can only assume that is what you are referring to.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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In Vegas 8, you can set the interpolation level to 0.0 in the Preferences dialogs.
Otherwise, you can turn off the Pan/Crop icon on all media in the Preferences as well.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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The reason you’re getting the PAL from NTSC isn’t because of Vegas, it’s because of corrupted file headers. It’s a problem that I’ve experienced with other NLE’s as well.
Either way, if you’re an FCP user, why not cap’ there, convert to MXF, and give him the MXF files? If he’s using Vegas, he’ll be able to import. or give him the QT files in DV codec, I’ve not seen an NLE on the PC side that can’t import DV in a QT wrapper.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Does Windows see the card?
Is it an OHCI compliant card?Douglas Spotted Eagle
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