Paul Beller
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What if I would wish to get a VHS look from about 1985-90? LOL, sorry, i just couldn’t resist…
crappy look is one but one could use some plugins to make it look a bit weary. >bcc damaged tv<, >newblue old tv< can give u some impressions of squished tape, add some snow etc. -
mxf is only a container. u gotta find out what is inside of your mxf files. e.g. you can have mpeg2 which allows no recompression. or u can have something else which doesn’t.
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u need to cutt off some low frequencies. u can get goldwave. that is an old one but very functional. can try it for free. you will see your hum in spectral view. of course izo is a pro way
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I don’t have a need for that but I can import xvid and divx videos into vegas without a glitch.i have xvid – free codec installed.
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wow, what the hell is that? interesting glitch. if i desperately needed to do this purposely and instantly i would buy mayhem plugin. you can chop with it an event in parts of desired lenght (e.g. in sequences 3,5,7 frames) and randomize them. if you need to do it only once you can always go to manual job – cursor right+”s” will do the job, then manual shuffle and here u go.
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that’s pretty obvious to me, when any frame is altered in any way its pixels must be recalculated…
i hope so. thanx for swift response.
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i ve heard a lot about newblue titler making vegas crash. this is smthing new to me…
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yeah, instead of my bla bla bla i should just say what i would do. and it would be exactly what john said. i would go for mxf 50 mbps 422 on the output. if you need to re-render once or even twice you don’t really need lossless intermediates. the client or even you will not be able to point differences between master and the rerendered file.
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there are few pro formats which you can import into vegas, chop them the way you like and render only those little fragments that you want to use later without recompression.
i assume your large files are not pro files (e.g. mxf) and all you can do is do the chopping and render with high bitrate so that you would be unable to find any distinctive differencies after re-rendering.
but you intend to use those output files to produce another videos, so it is not perfect solution as you would be producing third generation videos – the quality will descend.
so it seems the better way is to find an outside application in which you can chop your files and save only fragments you need without recompression. virtual dub may help, mpg2cut2, dvdshrink for dvds… it really depends what is your input format. -
what i meant to say was:
it is unimportant what is the bitrate of the input file.
what encoding does is taking frames, analyzing its pixels, applying compression algorithms and outputting the encoded frames regardless the input bitrate.
so i don’t think that saying “my input file is 1 mbps, so it is useless to apply 2 mbps on the output for reencoding” is correct.
of course there are boundaries above which it is useless to apply certain level of bitrate to a file. i am thinking: aplying 2 mbps to 1 mbps file would produce better results then applying 1 mbps to 1 mbps file. while applaying 50 mbps to 25 mbps file, i think will not make visual difference compering to applying 25 mbps to the same file. naturally resolution and output format have huge importance here too.
i hope it is clear enough. but i am not an expert, we have few here, i will be pleased to learn from them.