John Lockwood
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I have the VLC program, and it will play the mt2 files that Vegas 8 captures just fine. Vegas 7 plays the Vegas 7 and 8 m2t captures fine, but Vegas 8 won’t play any m2t files that 7 or 8 captures.
I was on the HV20/30 forum, and others were having the same issue….
John Lockwood
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Good luck with it friend. Hope I helped a little. This all is a very large learning process for me as well. I got a lot more to do of course, even after playing with this stuff for 4 years.
John Lockwood
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Not to sure about web delivery… not into that much.
When you say your footage shows up in Vegas as 352×480, are you looking at the ratio that the priview display shows? Because thats only the ratio that your priviewer window is showing, not what the atcual ratio of the video itself.
The best thing to do, is start up Vegas. Goto file, properties (for the project properties).
Set the template to NTSC Widescreen (729×480, 29.970fps) and the pixel count to whatever the highest in the project will be (I am guessing 1.2121).
Whenever you have the widescreen footage up, simpley leave it as is and do your edits accordinly. When the 4:3 footage comes in, apply a graphic on each side where the black bars appear. Unfortunatly, I am not sure what size your grappics should be. I have a friend who makes mine for me. But this trick is used on many HD braodcasts where a lot of 4:3 footage clashes with the new 16:9 widescreen footage.
I hope this helps a bit… I am somewhat amiture to all this still…
John Lockwood
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Not sure how much help I am going to be here, as I am pretty ammature myself, but I can chime in a bit.
I have owned my Canon HV 30 for 5 days now. After playing with it A LOT, the only thing I can do to make the images better, is to learn how to set up shots the right way with white balance, shutter, ect.
I do not use Apple products, but I am using Sony Vegas pro to capture my footage from my cam. I can say, the Canon HV 30 does indeed shoot in true HD, but in my test, it appears it does not shoot in full 1920×1080. It is actualy 1440×1080.
Howver, its still HD… and after viewing the footage on my ony 42″ Bravia HD, and my step father’s 62” RCA Plasma, I was AMAZED that this quality cam out of this camera. It is real HD.
I also can tell you, the USB 2.0 is NOT for transfering the video. It is not fast enough. The USB output is for transfering the still images you can take with the camera on a mini SD card.
To transfer the actualy HD footage you record, it has to be done via firewire (or in apple terms I think it is ilink?)
As far as getting HD video onto a standard DVD? Not happening. Although you can master the footage to a DVD that looks very good, your not going to get true HD footage on a standard DVD. Thats where Blu Ray burners are needed, and right now, those are still somewhat pricey along with any kind of software you will need to make them (from what I have read up on).
Hope this helped a bit.
John Lockwood
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I have been doing small work with Vegas 7 without any issues. I want to learn the program better befre I dive into anything big. I am still kinda new to all of this.
One thing I have noticed, and this has been a known issue with other on other forums, is the HD captruing in Vegas 8 Pro. It cuased much frustrations with me, because I am a SD video freindly guy, and I just bought a Canon HV 30 HD camcorder.
After using Vegas 8 to capture the HD video from my camera vias firewire, the mt2 HD file did not appear in the Vegas explorer window; even after refreshing it. and when I went to drag and drop it from Windows explorer window into Vegas 8, it read “None of the files dropped in Vegas could be opened.”
When going back to Vegas 7, everytihng worked fine…
This appears to be a major issue if you working with Vegas 8 Pro and doing HD video. I have the latest 8.0b updates and everything. Still having the issue.
John Lockwood
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What I like to do in this situation, is make the whole project in 16:9, but leave the 4:3 in its normal form without stretching it. This way, the 4:3 won’t look squashed or stretch.
I also will make some sort of graphics that are related to the prject and use them to fill the horizontal black bars on the sides where the 4:3 footage won’t fill. That way, if the project is being viewd on a wide screen tv, there is something else to look at other then black/grey fill bars. And if the project is being viewd in 4:3, it simpley won’t show the graphics because its not in the viewable area.