Jerry Waters
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Yes, Douglas, good to see you back — even though I don’t hang around as much as I used to. And while I’m at it, if anyone REALLY wants to learn Vegas the VASST Absolute Training is excellent. The #4 DVD on Color Correction and Image Restoration is a must, even for the experienced user.
JerryW
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How does your stuff look on the timeline? Blurry or sharp?
You do realize that your DVD is going to be less resolution than the m2t files — at least until you can burn a blu-ray.
JerryW
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One last trial. Go download the trial version of Neo at Cineform.com
Capture from tape – just m2t at first using their HD Link. Do it from firewife if your camera has one. Don’t try to do both stages of capture and convert at once because that is a problem if you don’t have a real fast computer. Then, as a second step, convert in HD Link to their avi files. Put those files on the timeline in Vegas, edit and render. Do just the video. Then do just the audio – AC3. Take those into DVDA and make a DVD. Burn with Nero or a separate burner and see what you get.
If you follow that, you shouldn’t go wrong. You can also use HD link to convert your old m2t files. How do your m2t files look on the timeline in Vegas?
JerryW
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Try rendering your files out of VEGAS – not DVD. One mpeg2 USING ONE OF THE DVDA ARCHITECT templates and one AC3 file. Take those files indo DVDA. It should NOT redo the render and should go pretty fast. (I never render in DVDA.)
JerryW
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The VERY highest I’ve seen IF you have Cineform Prospect is to render an avi file there at 1920 X 1080 with conversion to 709 colorspace at 4:4:4. Vegas will first say it can’t do it but if you will go into the “Configure” button you will get a Cineform menu that allows it. You should make sure the “Properties” of the Veg file are set to match. That is the highest quality I’ve seen out of Vegas.
JerryW
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Forgot to mention: HDV has 4.5 times the pixels of DV. There is no was you can be getting crap DVDs that I can see except you didn’t set the “Properties” in your veg.
Please answer these: What is “Properties” set to?
What are you rendering out to make the DVD? (Answer both “Type” of file and “Template.”)
What are you doing with the files you render? Give a step-by-step.
Walk before you run. HDMI capture is a whole other ballgame, mainly for HD capture before the camera compresses the video or just capturing directly to the computer without hitting the “record” on the camera. Make a few good DVDs first and then get fancy. Or, better yet, do a lot of reading and then get fancy.
JerryW
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I work only with HDV and have done so for two years. There is no way you should be getting blurry. First, what are you trying to render to? I do a lot of widescreen since I’m shooting 16 X 9. Make sure you set the properties of the veg high enough – “File – Properties” and select one of the HDV templates. It should be HDV either 24p or 60i. Both should work. If you aren’t setting the proper properties that would explain getting crap.
THEN render to Main Concept mpeg2 (which is DVD format) and use the template for DVD Architect widescreen 24p or 60i, depending on the properties you set for the veg. Render an AC3 sound file for the same render area. Open DVDA and use the two files to prepare the file — or prepare and burn but many people just prepare the file with DVDA and burn with Nero. They should come out OK.
However, I do not edit plain m2t files. It is possible but Cineform is a much better (in my opinion) way of working. They have a trial version. Their codec is designed for editing. It is also superior for color correction because the codec is only a wrapper and the color space of their wrapper is better than m2t.
JerryW
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I have a friend who captures HDMI direct to a Sony notebook he paid $1,800 for. That said, m2t files are more than adequate to render DV. The reason to capture with HDMI is that you CAN capture a full HD signal BEFORE it is compressed into an m2t signal. This is working in working in very high definition. If you have NEO just capture from tape and work with their files. They will be much higher than you need for a regular DV render.
If you want to go high using the tape (m2t) capture, get Prospect from Cineform. That codec can render out 1920 X 1080 files with 4:4:4 wrapped around the m2t out of Vegas. HOWEVER, Vegas will first say it can’t and you have to go into “Configure” and a Cineform menu will pop up.
JerryW
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How about a talking cow?
JerryW
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He means to render the video out in progressive mode, not interlaced. Each frame is a whole picture. You will find it listed in the presets on most of the render menus. Look for “24p” or “30p.” The “p” is for progressive.
JerryW