[Scott Hoffman]

[John Rofrano] “I’m not familiar with a template by that name. Can you be a bit more specific. Am I correct that because you said it’s HDV that you are using MainConcept MPEG-2 as the render type? Are you then selecting the HDV 720-20p template? Why did you refer to it as “intermediary”?”

I just click “render as” and it’s what comes up in the drop menu under template, directly quoted.

[John Rofrano] “Are you taking about audio compression or video compression?”

video compression, im not to worried about audio compression

[John Rofrano] “What is the “background of a sound only type file”. Do you mean that the media player you are using is only playing the sound and not the video?”

my computer uses album photos for music if no video is present. if there is no album cover in the file it displays a certain background.
there have been cases where it didn’t format right and just came out black screen, but in my issue right now it’s that i’m getting the background of a file without any video code.

[Scott Hoffman]

i use the HDV 720-25p intermediate template, I’ve used different video formats for decompression though. only uncompressed works