Mark Lynch
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At the risk of sounding cheap, I’m trying to justify buying a package that expensive since I only need it for about 10 seconds of video for just one project. Are there any reputable open source type filters that you may know of, even if they’re excessively tedious or ill-designed?
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I found it here, from a 3D Designer’s personal site:
https://www.luceri.it/2010/08/70s-filter/I never used to use filters so I don’t know where to get them other than open-source and private sites. And actually I don’t know how to find THOSE other than googling for them.
I need a filter to give a Seventies B-Movie look, and a filter to look like it was filmed in the eighties.. Any idea where I can find these kinds of things? Thanks guys.
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Hm, I’d forgotten about that because in both 10.0, and 8.0, the Mainconcept AVC/AAC MP4 was limited to low-resolution:
https://i52.tinypic.com/2h7qnix.jpgAnd the Sony AVC MP4, while having tons of options, always ends up looking low quality for some reason:
https://i51.tinypic.com/1zdpw1j.jpgCould you give me any advice on what rendering options are best in Sony AVC? I’ve set the “System” to MPEG-4, and the properties to as close as the original as possible. But beyond trying the best possible settings (16 Mpbs video stream, 30p, 60i) with the various video settings (“Blu-Ray/Internet/Memory Stick”), I don’t know what else to do, or what criteria to go by. (EDIT: In case it matters, I’m talking optimization for Youtube/Vimeo, etc, though that’s probably assumed, haha)
My project/video properties are:
Video: AVCHD (.MTS)
Dimensions: 1920×1080
Upper Field First
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000
Fps: 29.970p
I’m pretty sure this confusion with these many render-types under Sony AVC have been my main problem the past few years. I really appreciate the help.
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I’ll post this here since I’m dealing with the same project.
I’ve done what you both suggested (VASST is nice, too) and it’s working great! But in the past hour, when I use a recently-DV-rendered clip and fade in/out of it with any other clip, the video becomes pixelated/choppy instead of fading, like so:
https://i55.tinypic.com/2d6jgjn.pngThis happens in the final product rendered video I tested with this, as well, not just the preview window. So this is a permanent problem. What is happening, and how can I fix it? Try re-rendering the recent clip?
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Though just to double check, when you say DV Widescreen, you mean AVI DV Widescreen, yes? I’ve been working remotely with other programs and standards lately and I just want to be sure, hah.
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I actually had the same idea, John, and just tried the Pro 10 Trial, same problem, choppy preview. No dice.
Danny, I just tried your method and it works wonderfully! Rather tedious having to render every clip before I can edit anything, but I’ll take it for the only HD format I have access to.
Thanks, guys!
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Mkay, I’ve updated, everything is working fine, EXCEPT (i know this has been discussed before) the MTS files are extremely choppy in the preview display, and it’s impossible to edit with. How has this been remedied in the past?
Thankyou for all this help.
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Okay cool. But will I need to pay for this again after I already bought 8.0? Or is 8.1 a free update download?… From the looks of Sony’s site, I need to buy the code…
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Yep, everything says AVCHD (in the details, properties, etc) and the extension is MTS. I forget what camera it is since I rented it. I believe I have Vegas Pro 8.0a.
Historically my computer is just lacking proper plugins for Vegas to read a format (i DO know that I never saw MTS/AVCHD/H.264 on Vegas in any way before, like in Rendering options, even now I still don’t), so I was assuming that was the problem…
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Ohhh okay, thanks! So I have the option to either render in the already-established dimensions of the project properties, or change project properties to 1280×720 and re-align the two video sources in the preview window.
Thank you for the advice, I didn’t even know the difference that could make!