John Rofrano
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The DVD is just the physical media that it comes on; i.e., it’s just a 4.7GB disc. It’s not a DVD that you play in your DVD player. It will probably just have a bunch of video files on it with alpha channels that you just drop onto your timeline. I would just copy the DVD onto your hard drive so that you always have them available when you need them.
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> I watched some videos on their sites and all were in the 4:3 format. Does it make a differece what I use?
Did you ask the company that hired you? They may hate the fact that their videos are 4:3 when everyone else is moving to 16:9 and actually want them in 16:9. The point is… you need to ask. You could always shoot 16:9 and crop to 4:3 later which gives you more options.
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Why would you make the 16:9 into 4:3 and then render as 16:9? I would think that after changing the 16:9 to 4:3 you would just render as 4:3 (since that’s all you would have).
If you want the final output to be widescreen then I would use a 16:9 project and leave the 16:9 footage alone and add a colored border to the 4:3 footage to make it look nicer (like they do on the HD news). Just add a track below all of the other video tracks with the border you want.
If you really want to limit the 16:9 to 4:3 you could use Pan/Crop with the 4:3 Standard TV aspect ratio preset on the 16:9 events and that will crop them to 4:3.
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Interesting product. At 1000 count it adds $1.00 per disc which you could easily pass on to the customer. It would be interesting to see if the standard free DVD copy software would copy it. Since most copy software targets specific schemes they might not work on these discs making it a good deal.
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> My question is about project properties. If I choose under project properties, under field order, none will this ensure that the rendered file will be progressive scan?
No. Your project properties really have nothing to do with rendering. It is recommended that you keep them the same but if you are rendering to multiple formats that isn’t possible.
You are on the right path. If I know my output will be progressive, I would start with a progressive project. This way there are no surprises because you will be editing in the same format as you will be rendering. Just make sure you choose progressive in your MPEG-2 template. The 24p templates default to progressive but the NTSC and PAL would need to be changed.
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> 1. I have a Canon HV30 (Love it) when saving to DVD (or to my hard drive) for viewing on other computers as a file, what setting should I use to save the HD file as to get the best playback quality? I think it would be .AVI but not sure what setting to render it to.
That’s a really good question because there are a lot of formats you could render to. The first I would worry about is archival quality because some day you will get a Blu-ray burner and you will want to create an HD version and for that, I would render a copy to the original HDV M2T format of your camera. That would be MainConcept MPEG-2 using the HDV 1080-60i template. The file can be dropped right into DVD Architect and burned to Blu-ray without any further rendering.
Unfortunately, not all computers are powerful enough to playback a 25MBps MPEG-2 stream smoothly so you might not want to give that to others for PC viewing. For that you could save it as AVC MP4 file, Windows Media WMV file, or Quicktime MOV file. There is very little difference in quality between these at the same bitrate and most people will be able to play these on their computers. You might also consider rendering a 1280x720p version which will playback even more smoothly on most PC’s.
I don’t have Movie Studio so I can’t tell you which templates to use as the Vegas Pro version has a wider selection of templates. I would try a few types that I mentioned and see what you think and how well your PC plays them back. Just select a template that is 1440×1080 because that is the resolution of your original footage.
> 2. When making a DVD, I think I understand that you would use NTSC DVD widescreen to get the best possible DVD (Other then blue ray if I had one) is that correct?
That’s correct. I regularly render my HDV projects to NTSC DVD Widescreen and they look great.
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I thought Adam answered your question. He said to just drag and drop the video files from the DVD onto the Vegas timeline and set their properties to Straight Alpha. Did that not work?
Have you looked on the DVD? What did you see? I don’t have this product but I’ve got to imagine they are just video files on the DVD.
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Remember you need to make a copy of the track. On the treble copy, pull (1) all the way down to the bottom. (1) is already set as a Low Shelf so it will cut the bass.
On the bass copy, change (1) to High Shelf and again pull it all the way down to the bottom. This will cut all of the highs (treble) and leave you with just the bass.
In both cases adjust the Frequency to the point at which you want to start cutting treble or bass.
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OK, I see what you are trying to do now. Here is what my son uses to get YouTube videos onto his Zune portable player. I works for Vegas too: https://keepvid.com/
You copy the URL of the YouTube video you want onto the Windows clipboard and then paste it into the KeepVid URL field. Then press the Download button. On the next screen it will give you a link for both FLV and MP4. Select MP4 and these videos will be editable in Vegas.
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I would convert them to DV AVI files. These can be re-rendered several times with no visible loss in quality. MPEG will start to loose quality quickly when re-rendered and YouTube doesn’t start with much quality to begin with. If you do use MPEG just render the audio as a WAVE file but DV AVI will eliminate the need.
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