[Johnny Laty]

Thank you both for your help.

I’ve read somewhere that the xlh1 is not good in low-light situations. I did do some shooting at night and found the footage kind of grainy. I don’t know if it was something I did wrong. I want the night scenes to look theater quality. I know there are two switches to brighten the image. There’s the one on the lens and and a little wheel on the side. I’m guessing I should use the one on the lens first?

I was also looking for hdv decks on ebay and I found this: NICE – Sony DSR-30 DVCAM Mini DV Digital Video VCR Player Recorder Deck DSR30

Will that work for my tapes?

[Johnny Laty]

I was thinking of spending less then $1000 on the camera.

Is there any camera i can get which can use the lens on the xlh1? that way i can save money on that?

Or you think my best bet is to fix the xlh1 cause nothing else would be as good quality for that price?

[Johnny Laty]

thanks.

it’s retarded for vegas not to have that option built in though.

[Johnny Laty]

What i mean is the gain. i pulled the gain down on a lot of the clips and now i want them all all the way up.

[Johnny Laty]

thank you. i upgraded and it worked. appreciate the help.

[Johnny Laty]

thank you. i upgraded and it worked. appreciate the help.

[Johnny Laty]

intel core 2 duo cpu e8400 @ 3 ghz
8 gb ram
windows 7.

i will try to get the new sony vegas.

[Johnny Laty]

yes i’m on the last build

“Generally you want to be at double or quadruple the bitrate for editing.”
what does that mean?

is my footage not full hd?

i tried to render in the settings you gave me but it still crashed.

if i upgrade to a new sony vegas will i still be able to open this project in it?

[Johnny Laty]

i’m also using some muzzle flashes in parts of the movie.

[Johnny Laty]

General
Complete name : C:\Users\johnny\Desktop\movie 2\dd 1080 B 3 (19th).wmv
Format : Windows Media
File size : 136 MiB
Duration : 2mn 48s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 6 765 Kbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 6 764 Kbps
Movie name : dd 4-27 a
Encoded date : UTC 2015-08-21 15:48:55.587
SfOriginalFPS : 239760

Video
ID : 2
Format : VC-1
Format profile : MP@HL
Codec ID : WMV3
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Video 9
Codec ID/Hint : WMV3
Description of the codec : Windows Media Video 9 – Professional
Duration : 2mn 48s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 6 519 Kbps
Width : 1 440 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.175
Stream size : 131 MiB (96%)
Language : English (CA)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : WMA
Format version : Version 2
Codec ID : 161
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Audio
Description of the codec : Windows Media Audio 9.2 – 192 kbps, 48 kHz, stereo (A/V) 1-pass CBR
Duration : 2mn 48s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 3.85 MiB (3%)
Language : English (CA)

i don’t have “match media” in my project properties.

i don’t have a XDCAM profile in “save as type” in “render as”

main concept mp4 only lets me do 640×480 and 320×240
fraunhofer AAC (mp4) only does sound.