John Rofrano
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> I can set “custom” and manually type in 1920×1080 as the output dimensions, but then my video gets rendered letterboxed instead of filling the frame.
Did you set the Pixel Aspect Ratio to 1.000 (square)? At 1440 the PAR is 1.333 but at 1920 the PAR is 1.000.
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Edit everything in an HD project template (e.g., HDV 1080) and then render to both HD format and SD widescreen for DVD. Keeping the entire project in HD will give you the most quality options for delivery.
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I hardly ever use sharpen. Only if I’m uprezing SD to HD or if there is partiularly blurry footage. Otherwise I use Levels, Color Corrector, and Color Curves (in that order) as my primary correction tools. Of course, shooting well exposed, well focused video in the first place is the primary goal but not all situations allow for that.
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Smart Resample is auto-pilot. This lets Vegas decide if it should resample or not. Force Resample and Disable Resample put you in control of whether to resample or not. If you were trying to slow down PAL 50i video to 24p you would want to disable resample so that Vegas simply plays the existing frames back at a slower cadence. If, however, you were trying to make slow motion from normal speed you would want to force resample to make sure that Vegas generates in-between frames where there are none to make the video smoother as it slows down.
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The Sharpen FX will sharpen video but if it was caused by poor lighting you might want to first try the Levels FX or Color Curves FX to bring the lighting back to normal. Use the Waveform Monitor and Histogram on the Video Scopes to help see what’s going on and where the correction is needed.
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> I just wonder what the best rendering settings are for dvd.. I know it`s mpeg 2, but what bitrate should I Choose?
Just use the DVD Architect templates that are in Vegas. They are already set up to give good quality.
> I usually pick constant bitrate 8000. Is that ok, or is it other settings I should consider?
That’s fine as long as your movie doesn’t get too large to fit on a DVD. Then you would want to consider using a variable bit rate.
> What are the best settings if I want to show my movie on a pc?
What will you use to show it? DVD’s will be interlaced (unless you render progressive 24p) and all DVD player software will deinterlace the footage for you so it shouldn’t matter. If you just play the raw files, some media players will not know to deinterlace so stick with DVD player software.
> I`m going to show a movie on a projector.. Is it the same if I`m making a file for windows mediaplayer or if I`m burning it to a DVD?
If the original footage is standard definition then WMV or DVD MPEG2 will not matter. If the footage is HD then WMV playback on a PC will give you better quality specifically for use with a projector but don’t go above the resolution of the projector which is sometimes surprisingly low for the cheaper models.
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If you are specifically looking for achieve a film-like cadence, you can render using the 24p template. This will give you the 24p cadence but unless you were intending to produce a 24p product and you shot with 24p in mind (i.e., you deliberately kept horizontal pans slow so that they wouldn’t judder) it is best to stick with the DVD Architect NTSC widescreen template.
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Great! I’m glad it worked out for you. Take care,
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If you are keyframing, make sure you set the smoothness of each keyframe to zero! Back in Vegas 5 the default was 100.0 and later Sony changed the default to 0.0. If smoothness is anything but zero it will apply a smoothing curve that will cause the movement to ease in and out of the keyframe causing misalignment. You only want smoothness on when simulating camera moves, otherwise keep it off (0.0).
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Vegas does not like AC3 files. Not sure why Sony chose the flaky support that they did but under certain circumstances they will load and under others they won’t. Try converting it to a WAV file with any free utility that converts AC3 to WAV that can be found on the internet.
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