John Rofrano
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There is only one thing to consider when going from HDV to DVD that I should have mentioned. The 16:9 aspect of DV Widescreen is slightly wider than the 16:9 of HDV so be sure to render with the option Stretch video to fill frame size (do not letterbox) turned on (checked). It will remove the very slight black pillarbox on the sides. This is actually optional because the slight pillarboxing is hard to notice.
Other than that, just select one of the DVD Architect MPEG2 templates and render your audio as AC3 and drop them into DVD Architect (or the authoring software of your choice). If the target TV is interlaced it will, of course, play fine. If the TV is progressive it is smart enough to deinterlace even if the DVD player is not (and almost all are anyway) and it will play fine. There is no worries with any TV equipment.
The only time you need to worry is if you are rendering for playback on a PC because there is no hardware in the PC to compensate for the fact that the PC is progressive and the footage is interlaced. But any kind of TV equipment, (DVD players, Plasma, LCD, CRT, you name it) is well aware of the established standards and how to output interfaced footage correctly.
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Peter,
I was just about to ask a similar question so I’ll ask it in this thread. I have a GeForce 8600GTS (significantly more powerful than the 6800 in the previous post) and I was wondering if upgrading to the Quadro FX1700 would give me a boost in performance with Red & BLUE? (the FX4600 is out of my price range)
Stated another way: given that I already own a GeForce 8600GTS and the power of that card, which Quadro FX card would I have to buy to see a noticeable boost in performance when using Boris RED & BLUE?
Do I have to go for a Quadro FX3700 which is $849 (2x the price of the FX1700 and 10x the price of the 8600GTS!) or will the Quadro FX1700 at $449 (still 5x the price of my current 8600) be worth the money? The 8600GTS actually has higher memory bandwidth than the FX1700 which is why I’m worried that I won’t see that much of a difference. I doubt I will see a 5x boost in performance to match the 5x price tag but I understand that you also get greater stability.
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> What do you guys like for Motion Tracking?
I use Boris RED for motion tracking and IMHO any Vegas user doing FX work like that should have RED in their kit. In addition to motion tracking, it also does corner pinning (replace a sign), rotoscoping, outstanding chroma key, 3D FX, great FX generators (snow, rain, particles, etc.), titles, filters, filters, filters (did I mention it has a lot of filters?).
I was one of those people who thought, “oh I can do all of that in Vegas” and then I saw a demo of Boris RED’s Motion Key. You can actually erase a moving object from a video (like someone walking into frame and spoiling the shot). I mean, gone like they never existed! You can remove a signpost that you don’t want in the shot just like that. It’s amazing. Then they demoed some pretty impressive cloning (that’s right, just like Photoshop clone, replace a section of the video with another section and motion track it so it moves with the scene) and I though, “hmmm… this is pretty close to magic”. After buying RED I’m finding all sorts of uses for it. Obviously I really like it. 😉
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That’s a really old computer from 2002. From what I can find on the web, it only supports AGP graphics. Were those AGP cards you were using? I remember that some vendors cut corners and didn’t implement the full AGP spec, especially with motherboards that already had on-board video and Dell is notorious for cutting corners and selling crippled hardware.
> On board video is disabled in device manager
I would check and make sure that the on-board video is disabled in the BIOS. Using Device manager alone may not be enough. Disabling in the BIOS will ensure that no software can accidentally enable it again.
There is definitely a conflict going on here, you just have to find out what it is. Perhaps the firewire and graphics card are sharing the same IRQ? That is not a bad thing in and of itself because I lot of devices share IRQ’s, but some devices just don’t share them well together. These things can be hard to find and sometimes even harder to fix because Windows XP doesn’t let you control the IRQ’s anymore.
Go into the Windows Device Manager and select View | Resources by type. Open up Interrupt request (IRQ) and look for your graphics card and firewire card. If they both have the same IRQ number next to them this may be the source of the problem.
Maybe try an old PCI graphics card if you can find one. The old hardware is very hard to find these days. Good luck.
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> Does anyone know why this happens and if it can be corrected so that the voice recorder remain in Sync?
It’s happening because the internal clocks on each of the devices is slightly off. The only way to solve this is with genlock which syncs all of the devices to an external clock. Unfortunately, none of your equipment supports genlock (nor does mine it’s only found on very expensive broadcast gear)
I shoot mostly live stage performances and I blend the audio from my Sony HVR-Z1 with the audio from my Marantz PMD-660 which gets it’s feed from the mixing console, and I have to slightly correct the audio about every 15 minutes. Clocks will always drift. The amount will depend on the quality of the device.
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The best workflow that I have found is to work in an HDV project with the same settings as the source footage so that all of the titles and other things you are adding are the same high quality as the original footage. Then render to MPEG2 at DVD quality when you are done using one of the DVD Architect templates.
This also gives you the added advantage of going back and burning a Blu-ray from the same project in the future. This is how I work and I’ve gone back and created Blu-rays from some of last years DVD projects so I’m glad I did it this was from the beginning.
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It’s hard to follow what you are doing. Can you give us more details and step-by-step procedure? What version of Vegas? What is the source of the media (a DV camera? HD camera? the web? etc.) What format is the media (AVI, MPG, MOV, ???) What codec does it use? What exact steps are you using?
My guess would be that the media contains audio in a format that Vegas doesn’t support.
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I don’t think this is the media manager complaining. It is the Project Media tab. To fix this, switch to the Project Media tab and press the Lightning Bolt icon. This will Sweep the media pool and remove and invalid references. Then save the project.
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> Authored DVDs don’t have a single .MPG file in them but instead two folders AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. I assumed this meant that the format was not MPEG2 and that my source file was therefore being rerendered to another format.
It will not be re-rendered. This gets back to containers and codecs again. DVD’s use a VOB container that supports the MPEG2 codec. If you render with a DVD compliant MPEG2 template, your video will simply be copied into the VOB file.
I don’t have the Movie Studio version of Vegas but in the Pro version there are a set of templates with DVD Architect in the name. These are the ones that are compatible and won’t get re-rendered.
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> And by the way, what does Automation Write (latch) mean? What does it do?
There are two modes to write automation, Touch and Latch:
Touch only changes the envelope while you continue to move/hold the fader. As soon as you let go, it snaps back to whatever point the envelope was at previously and continues playing back the existing envelope. This is good for making small changes in an otherwise perfect envelope.
Latch continues to change the envelope even after you let go of the fader and records those changes until you stop playback. This is good for re-recording the automation envelope, erasing what was there and replacing it with your new fader settings.
Think of it this way: one mode only records when you “touch” the fader and the other “latches” onto the fader setting until playback stops.
Hope that helps,
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