Patrick Cooper
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I wasn’t successful in getting a screen capture. I’ll take a photo of the issue instead.
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Ive just captured some background footage recorded with my SD MiniDv camcorder, placed text on it and I get exactly the same result. Text is sideways.
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Oh another thing. I know that you mentioned that the default settings in the templates I selected were suited to playback in specific devices. I have used the HDV 720 25p option many times to play back successfully on a HDTV. Though surely, a HDTV could also play back a 1920 x 1080 25p file? After all, that’s the video standard that’s used in PAL countries like mine. And there was advice given to me on another forum to change 1280 x 720 to 1920 x 1080 – so yea I was just following that advice! Though it didn’t work anyway.
When I record HD video with my Panasonic G6 camera, I select 1920 x 1080 25p. It just seems really strange to me that with Sony Movie Studio, there is no way to use those same specifications when I render / output video. When I want to play the file back on a HDTV via usb, I can of course output the file as 1280 x 720 25p or 1920 x 1080 50i but neither of those options are going to give me quality as good as the original raw footage. Is it just Sony Movie Studio that is to blame or is it the case that there are no NLE programs out there that can create a 1920 x 1080 25p video file?
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Thankyou Russ. As well as future festivals etc, I also wanted a file type that would be compatible with playing back on a pc and a HDTV. And good to know that it’s okay to use 1440. I did not expect that since 1440 is a lower number than 1920 – I would have expected some of the image area to be cut off. I do vaguely recall somewhere among the templates was a 1440 x 1080 25p template. I hope that particular template produces a file that is compatible with a wide variety of devices.
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Thankyou Russ. As I’m not computer savvy, I’m not really sure how to do screen captures. But until I work that out, I’ll do my best to explain what I did with regards to modifications. I actually modified two templates but did not have success with either one. I only changed a few things. Most of the settings I left as default. Both templates can be found in the MainConcept MPEG2 group.
The first template I modified was HDV 1080 – 24p. I changed the 1440 x 1080 to 1920 x 1080 and changed the 24p to 25p. I kept everything else the same.
The second template I modified was HDV 720 – 25p. I changed the 1280 x 720 to 1080 x 1920 and kept the frame rate the same – 25p. I increased the bitrate to 25mbps. I kept everything else the same.
The only other thing I did with both templates was increase the video quality all the way to ‘high’.
I hope that helps.
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Just now, I customised one of the templates to 1920 x 1080, 25p with a bitrate of 25mbps but Sony Movie Studio won’t let me render the video. A message comes up that says: “An error occurred while creating this media file. The reason for the error could not be determined.”
Any ideas on what’s going on?
I tried a few more times and also saved the custom template as well but I still get the same message.
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I think I would definitely prefer your workflow. It would make life so much easier, especially when looking for older content. Very well organised.
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Woops! I think Ive found it. I stumbled across a folder on my C drive which has a large selection of projects which Ive created with Sony Movie Studio. They all have a .vf file extension.
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I’ll add that when I save a project in Movie Studio, Ive no idea whereabouts on my computer it is saved. And I’m assuming it’s saving all the individual edits, audio etc within that project. I also gather that the project would stored as a file of some kind but I don’t know what kind of file that would be.
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Ah okay but the question is – where are the folders? Ive no idea where Sony Movie Studio stores those. Ive located a bunch of individual video clips which Movie Studio has used in various projects but not the projects themselves.