[Michael Denford]

Thank you again for your help gentlemen. I’ll check these tools out, as they all look quite impressive.

[Michael Denford]

Thank you for your quick reply. I use Sony Vegas Pro 11, but don’t seem to have AC-3 Pro available as an option. Is their a way I can obtain this, or is there an alternative to prevent recompresion?

[Michael Denford]

I just gave the GoPro a shot.After importing my footage, I was stuck when it asked me to go to Step 2. When in the step 2 screen, I didn’t see my clip nor was able to progress any further. Will the size of the eventual .avi file be much larger than the source file?

[Michael Denford]

Thankyou for this info. I will also give this a try, and seee if it helps with my workflow.

[Michael Denford]

Thanks again for your help John. After matching the project properties of the Phone Footage, and Rendering as MXF 1440×1080, this then renders into my main 1440×1080 project fine.

[Michael Denford]

thanks for you assistance here John. I followed you steps, but was unable to drag and drop the stabilized 8-bit video into the 32-bit project.
Vegas Pro 11 would not allow me to run 2 projects in the same session. When I launched a 2nd Vegas session, drag and drop was not allowed.
Copying the 8-bit stabilized video from the timeline (session 1), and pasting into the 32-bit project (session 2) maintained the 8-bit colour.
Can 2 projects be open in the same session?

[Michael Denford]

Thanks for this info John. Sounds like the perfect solution. I had a go, but have done something wrong. Would I be able to trouble you for the instructions on how to do this? Thanks for your patience and sharing your knowledge John.

[Michael Denford]

Hi John,

Thanks again for your reply. It looks like the only way I can Stabilize my video – as mentioned above – is to change the Pixel Format from 32-bit Floating Point to 8-Bit. This also works with Sub Clips.

I am using x.v.color media.

You had mentioned above that I can stabilize the video (using 8-bit) in 1 project, and render. Then include this in the main project. Will the 8-bit pixel format remain, despite using this stabilized video in the 32-bit main project?

Furthermore, as I will need to apply transitions etc to the main project, will this result in another render, and in turn further reduce video quality?

Ultimately, I would like to maintain the 32 bit Pixel format, as it looks much nicer.

Thanks for your help again. Sorry to drag this thread on.

[Michael Denford]

Hi John,

Sorry for the delayed response.

For some reason I am unable to apply Sony Stabilize as a Media FX to the subclip from the Project Media screen.

I noticed some sub folders and heaps of files in that temp folder which seem unrelated to any of my projects. Would deleting of all these cause any harm to Vegas Pro?

If you need any screenshots, I can provide them to you.

Thanks again.

[Michael Denford]

Thankyou for this very helpful advice.

I had forgotten to mention that the blu ray disc will be shown on a Full HD LCD (with progressive scan). Would a Progressive scan conversion make the video look any better?

I understand what you mean about unnecessary rendering. Based on your experience, does setting video and render settings to max (from default setting) make a noticeable difference?