John Rofrano
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Here is the problem: if Media Shout doesn’t understand non-square pixels and you give it a file that uses a PAR of 1.3333 it is going to display it as if the PAR is 1.0000 and the image will look vertically squished. This is why I suggested that you give it a format with a PAR of 1.0000. That way it can’t get the PAR wrong.
Having said that, it also might not be smart enough to handle widescreen ANYTHING, in which case rendering 1280x720p is not going to work either. This is why you have to ask the person who has the software or send them test files to see what the software does with it. That’s why I made the suggestion to render 4:3 video with the letterbox already added. This would be foolproof and you would be guaranteed to get letterboxed video.
You really need to talk with person who owns the software and ask them what format looks best, then render to that format.
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Unless there is something you need in Vegas Pro 8.0 that you can’t do in Movie Studio I don’t see any reason to upgrade.
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I assume you need to render to a format that uses square pixels. You didn’t say how you rendered the final output for Media Shout. Try rendering HD 1280x720p. A 1280x720p WMV file might be a good choice. This should display as letterboxed. I would ask the people who own Media Shout what formats it likes best.
If that gets squished then you may need to produce a 4:3 letterbox version out of Vegas. The easiest way to create that would be to drop the 16:9 .veg file into a 4:3 project and render as 4:3. It will burn the letterbox into 4:3 aspect.
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You’re probably seeing a drop in quality because the Sanyo doesn’t shoot in a format that is compatible with Blu-ray like your FX7 and HV20 so it has to be re-encoded to become compliant which means a quality loss while encoding. I would simply avoid using a camera that doesn’t shoot to a standard format like AVCHD or HDV.
Have you tried using MainConcept MPEG-2 with the HDV 1080-60i template? That should give you good quality video since the bitrate should be higher than the Sanyo can capture.
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You need morphing software to do that. WinMorph comes to mind but there are others.
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You could use a backup program which will backup files over multiple discs or you could use bigger discs. You could also try using a program like Womble that will allow you to split the file without re-encoding.
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No, nothing has changed. You can still use AVI files and DVD Architect will convert them to MPEG2 for you. Steve was just recommending that you render them to MPEG2 directly from Vegas to see if the jitters go away. I’m not sure why it’s not working with AVI files for you because it should.
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> CyberLink programs flash up on the plug-ins being loaded, could it be that program? I only have CyberLink installed for my video camera
It could be. Vegas will look for any DirectX filters on your system and it could be that the video or audio filters from CyberLink are not behaving properly. It’s worth a try to uninstall and see.
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What you could try is placing both MPEG files on the Vegas timeline and render out to a single MPEG file. If you use the same render settings as before, Vegas should “smart render” the files and stitch them together with no recompression. If this is working, the video preview will say something like “no recompression required” while rendering. This is how you know smart render is working. The results will be one MPEG file with no loss in quality.
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