John Rofrano
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Terry, It’s even better than that. You don’t need a Blu-ray burner at all. Just a Blu-ray player / PS3. You can use your regular DVD burner to burn a 20 minute Blu-ray image onto a standard DVD media disc. You do this right from within Vegas from the timeline with:
Tools | Burn Disc | Blu-ray Disc…
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Yes, you are just limited to the capacity of the disc which is about 20 minutes. The physical DVD media was never meant to play back such high bitrate files so it is unknown if over time the disc will become unreliable but they do seem to play fine.
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Vegas doesn’t like DivX. You need to convert your video into another format (e.g., DV, Motion-JPG, Huffyuv, etc.) to be able to edit and render in Vegas.
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> What’s the best method?
This is kind of subjective but I feel that methods 3 is the best because shooting good 24p is not easy and shooting 60i and converting to 24p later may cause surprises. Fast pans can become very jerky in 24p. You need to pan very slowly and deliberately. Try shooting 24p while panning across a picket fence to see what I mean. Method 3 will show you any problems in the viewfinder because you will be shooting 24p (60i will not).
It is also important to edit on a 24p timeline. You don’t want to be adding dissolves and generated media at 60i and then having them reduced to 24p. You may get undesired ghosting as Vegas interpolates frames. Keeping the project in 24p from the start ensures that what you see (and more importantly what you cut) is what you get.
Having said that… some people use method 1 and like the results which is why I said it’s subjective.
> if all clips are digital, what’s the difference between them ?
The 60i media will have frames that will need to be removed to get to 24p (leaving out the fact that one format is interlaced while the other is not). The removal of these frames may cause unwanted blended frames.
> and if Vegas can convert to 24P why bother shooting 24P ??
Because you want your original frames to be unblended and your camera motion to not be jerky by moving faster than 24p can capture smoothly. It takes practice to shoot good 24p.
> Is it really true that 24P DVDs are “smaller” in file sizes allowing you to “push” more quality (bitrate) on disc ??
Yes, for NTSC they have 6 less frames per second which results in smaller file size. You still can’t push the data rate above the 9Mbps limit but on a long movie you can get more on a disc at a higher rate than 60i could fit. (not such a big difference for 50i which is only 1 frame less)
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What Steve and Enrique said is true except for one little problem. You would need to buy a consumer camera that can read Sony Z1 HDV tapes. I would go into a store with the tape before you buy. Chances are that any of the Sony HDV cameras will read it correctly. Cameras from Canon, Panasonic, JVC, etc. may not.
HDV on miniDV is NOT like DV on miniDV. Every camera manufacturer decided to add their own twist thus messing with compatibility across brands. This is mostly in the way that they write 24p information but it may affect straight NTSC or PAL HDV as well. Just check before you buy. You should be OK if you stick with a Sony consumer HDV camera.
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> Would there be an improvement in quality if I used a Blu Ray burner?
No, you just get more capacity. Burning is essentially just a file transfer of the data. The quality would be the same.
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> I added EQ fx and found the noice peak and turned that frequenz all the way down… Its gone.. blowen with the wind 😉
Excellent! That’s exactly what I would have done. 😉 Glad you got it all sorted out.
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No, but there are lots of free bitrate calculators on the internet that you can use to determine what MPEG-2 bitrate to use based on project length. Just Google for ‘video bitrate calculator’.
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> actualy it is a A-HD by Aiptek, its more or less the same thing as GO-HD
Then you need to purchase Quicktime Pro and follow the instructions in the link that Mike provided. Otherwise Vegas will not be able to read these files.
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I agree with Mike. Use the standard templates which contain the acceptable bitrates and try using a different brand of DVD. Preferably a high quality Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden as Mike suggested. Both of these brands have a “value” line as well. Get the better ones.
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