John Rofrano
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“No Recompression Required” should be on solid and not blinking. There must be something different about the MPEG-2 on your miniDVD and the MPEG-2 template you are using to render which is causing some rendering to take place. Maybe it’s the bitrate? or the GOP? but something is different. A video without audio is going to be smaller in size than a video with audio so the difference in size isn’t a bad thing.
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I can’t say why the video looks different. It should not. Have you viewed this miniDVD on your TV? Is that what you are comparing it to? You might want to try taking a file right from the camera a burning it to DVD just to bypass Vegas and see if it’s DVD Architect? It really is strange.
As for the audio, render to Dolby Digital AC3 Pro using the Stereo DVD template and it should be fine.
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If you are seeing the “no recompress…” message than the quality should be the same because Vegas is telling you that it’s just making a copy of the file. Rendering separate streams will not affect this. The reason it is suggested to render to separate streams is to keep your audio from being recompressed twice. Once to MPEG2 and then again to AC3. You’ll get higher quality audio if you only render once to AC3.
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Not nearly as confusing as before they added the “Pro”. Then it was even more confusing trying to explain that the don’t have “Vegas” then have “Vegas Movie Studio”. At least now you can say, the “Pro” version and have some differentiation.
If you look at the box you can hardly see the word “vegas” but MOVIE STUDIO is the largest thing on box… yet for some reason, those who buy it are reluctant to say, “I’m using Movie Studio”.
But we have the same problem on the ACID forum. People will ask how to monitor their recording and we’ll explain how to arm the track and change the input monitor and they’ll get confused and then finally it will come out that they are using “acid” MUSIC STUDIO. Then the light bulb goes on. Music Studio doesn’t support input monitoring.
I understand Sony wanting to show that it’s a “family” of products but it’s very confusing to most. Especially, as I mentioned, that there is one help file for both versions. You can read an entire chapter before realizing that your version can’t do this. 🙁
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The problem is that DV Widescreen resolution is not an exact 16:9 ratio. The 16:9 preset is setting the crop to exactly 16:9. The Match Project Aspect is taking into account the fact that the project is not a perfect 16:9 and adjusting accordingly. If you try this in an HDV project you would see no difference because HD aspect is a perfect 16:9 ratio.
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The backup veg files cannot be changed from being placed in the same folder as the veg file. It’s just how it works. You can turn them off but you can’t change where they go. (Can’t say about the yellow highlight problem)
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If you do nothing but straight cuts and never add any color correction or other FX, then Vegas will simply copy the input MPEG to the output MPEG assuming your output has the exact same attributes. The problem comes when you start to add FX and transitions. Vegas has to render those and unfortunately, your camera is already recording in a highly compressed format that starts to degrade when re-rendered.
My advice: if you are serious about editing videos… buy a new camera that doesn’t shoot DVD quality MPEG-2. Those miniDVD cameras are meant for people who just want to “shoot and watch”. The sad thing is that camera manufacturers all claim you can edit the videos. Just because you physically CAN edit them, doesn’t mean that you SHOULD! (as you have seen) Unfortunately, they forget to tell you that part.
You are getting about the best quality you can given what you are starting with. Like I said, if you just do cuts, you should see the video preview display a message like “no recompression needed” while rendering which is telling you that it’s just copying from the source to target media with no loss.
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You will be disadvantaged working this way. You can’t trust SD output for working in HD unless your final format will olny be SD and never in HD. If you have an HDTV or LCD, then the best option is to connect it to your computer via the second DVI output on your graphics card and use Vegas’ Secondary Monitor preview options. This was specifically added for HD preview.
You could also use an HD output card like the Aja, or Decklink, but Windows Secondary Display is also acceptable.
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The advantage of the Sony encoder is that it supports mp4 files as well as wrapping MPEG-4 in an MPEG-2 Transport Stream (m2ts) and elementary video streams (avc). If you are making AVCHD Blu-ray files or Sony PSP files (on memory stick) I would select the Sony encoder.
When rendering for the web like you want to do, I would stick with the MainConcept encoder. It is better at web formats that play well in Quicktime. You can try both since both support mp4 but in general I use the MainConcept for web work and Sony for AVCHD/Blu-ray work.
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There is a new capture utility for HDV in Vegas 7. The DV Vidcap program won’t work (as you have seen). When you go to capture, Vegas should give you a choice of capturing HDV or DV before either capture program starts (actually the HDV one is built-in and will be a dockable window)
If you don’t get asked to choose, you make have selected DV as the default in the past and asked Vegas to stop asking you. Go to Options | Preferences | Video and uncheck Use external video capture application . This is should return to asking you whether to capture DV or HDV again. Then select HDV to capture from your HDV camera.
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