Stephen Mann
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I don’t do any 5.1 work, but Vegas doesn’t “read” AC3 files.
Steve Mann
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I bought some Sony HVR-DR60 Hard Disk Recorders a few years ago and will never go back to tape. I use the mostly on my Z1’s, but I have also used them on a PD-150 and VX-2000.
Steve Mann
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This thread is pretty far down the forum list, so the pros aren’t seeing it. Since your description of the problem was quite vague, they may have skipped it. Perhaps if you start a new thread with a different question.
Generally, even Vegas will make BD disks without re-encoding, but you said that you need to make a smaller file, if I recall your original post, and *NO* software can do this without re-compressing the video.
Steve Mann
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Bruce, are you trying to put a transition on an image?
Steve Mann
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I’m not sure I understand your question. Animate in the context of Vegas 10 means to enable keyframing in effects. Since there’s hundreds (at least a dozen) of effects in Vegas, what is it that you are trying to do?
Steve Mann
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What part of “this is normal” don’t you get?
You will never, with any AVCHD or HDV camera or with any program, encode files without compression artifacts.
Even Hollywood with all their money can’t do it. You can come close by using something like Sorenson Squeeze or Compressor on a Mac. Squeeze will do a little better in the quality, but the operative word is “little”. The encoder in Sony Vegas is among the best, so only you can decide if a fractional better encode is worth the $800 software package?
Steve Mann
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You are re-compressing the video. Something has to go, and it starts with the fine details. In your example, individual leaves are averaged into a larger block of one color to make the file size smaller. This is the compression artifact that you are seeing.
How does Hollywood do it?
They don’t. They start with uncompressed 4:4:4 video and don’t compress it until they make the mpg file for DVD or the m2ts file for BD, but the compression artifacts are in the final product. If you are starting with AVCHD or HDV, you are already starting with compressed video. Heavily compressed in the case of AVCHD.Steve Mann
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Those are compression artifacts. They are virtually impossible to avoid regardless which software you use. When you compress (encode), you will lose detail.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I render to m2ts all the time. It’s so good that I use it as an intermediate sometimes. As I’ve tried to say, I can’t visualize your problem from the description.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
