Nick White
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HAH! Thanks mate! Many a true word spoken in sarcasm!
Good. It pretty much confirms what I thought….. and while that always sounds as if I hear what I want :D, it also supports what I had found by repeatedly trying to get the Properties to affect output.
What exactly does that Alter Media thing do? I am assuming it does not really modify my source (shudder). Does it make a copy, or interpret on the fly? Help is a bit minimalist here….
Thanks again
Nick
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[John Rofrano] “What version of Movie Studio are you using? Maybe it did ship with CineForm?”
This happens in both V11 and V12. They both show the codec available, but neither allows it to work.
Nick
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[John Rofrano] “Just for the record… those are called “Render Templates”. In Movie Studio Platinum 12.0 the window even says: “Choose a render template from the list…”. I’m just pointing this out so that you use and understand the language that everyone else here is using.”
Yes but I am talking about an encoding method choice _within_ a template, once I have chosen it. It’s one of the choices in all the avi templates. I think I was correct in saying it’s not a template. I would let it go by, but what you said may lead to more misunderstanding (And certainly _I_ do not need that! :D), and I am trying to be pretty careful about how I call things
Nick
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Firstly when you say you lose quality in Vegas, what settings are you using to render into mp4? That may be the critical thing here. It’s always a toss-up between quality and quantity. Have you experimented with settings to get more quality?
Rant on:
AS FAR AS I KNOW from my years as a still photographer…if you use lossless compression, you will be fighting to halve the data size of the video, depending on the complexity of each frame’s contents. This complexity is both in detail and colour/brightness shading. That halving may see you through. But if you keep acquiring more video data….
Lossy compression can do a lot more, but will always be …. lossy ….. So you can choose your quality vs compression level, depending on your storage (and… these days it’s not so important ….a computer’s ability to move data fast enough to actually _play_ a really big video file without stuttering one of my PCs cannot play footage from my camera. None of them can play uncompressed).
As I said in another post on this thread, Handbrake is very simple to configure for quality. I have yet to find anything better than the x264 for making really good renders for their size. Certainly at my amateur level. I work in Vegas, then export my final movie as avi uncompressed (WARNING…YOU WILL NEED UP TO 400GB/HOUR FOR SAY 1280/720), then use HB to make an mp4 of the quality I want. They are not as good as my camera videos, but it takes a trained eye to spot the difference. The compression ratio is quite
In the end, though, huge files will contain more data.
If you can’t handle an uncompressed file of 400GB, then all
Nick
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[Aleksey Tarasov] “Handbrake creates ultra high compressed H.264 video files, for delivery, not for editing,”
That’s not true actually. Handbrake allows selection of output quality from very compressed to completely uncompressed, if you ask for constant quality and use the slider. With practice you can create any quality/compression compromise you wish.
Nick
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HAH! Editing may be fulfilling, interesting, productive etc, but _happy_? 😀
I just finished a little 8 min video from clips that I took of a dog belonging to a couple that take her to the park to play. It was hard work, pretty much learning as I went and actually building a multimedia PC on the fly. I was reasonably happy with the result, but they were rapt.The look on the woman’s face made it all worth it. It is cheating a bit, because she loves the dog: an easy target 😀
Nick
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[Vernon Lancaster] “should have been clearer – goto
https://cineform.com/downloads
download and install a trial of the ‘gopro cineform stduio professional’
this version (at least for me) then enabled me to render using the cineform codec within vegas for the length of the trail – it will give you the chance to see if you think its worth keeping”Hey yeah I will. Thanks.
Nick
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OK. Thanks John. Sorry for the confusion. I guess I am on a steep learning curve right now and it’s _just_ starting to show light at the end of the tunnel, so I am a little excitable.
Nick
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Yeah Mike and thank you very much for putting in so much effort. I have been flittering about like a mosquito in a colander, trying to pick the “right” hole :). But it all seems sorted now. Just that some plugins have one interface and others have others.
Much appreciated to all.
Nick
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Any luck?
Nick
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