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[Bill In Oregon] “Any help would be appreciated.”
As I said in the original thread – upgrade to Windows XP. Vista isn’t close to being release quality software in my opinion, and you should stay away from it if you have work that needs done. Alternatively you can wait for SP1 in the first quarter of 08. Perhaps. This is when Vista comes out of Beta in reality.
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WOW! Thanks for the example. These days I shoot in HDV, which I assume will benefit from this. Will my old DV footage, shot with a three chip camcorder and obviously with the bad 4:2:0 / 4:1:1 conversion issues also benefit from this?
Looks like 8 is going to be an instant must-have for us “instant must-have” personalities. Hopefully Sony won’t screw me over the way they did with the upgrade to 7, where they dropped the upgrade price by $100 a few weeks after the release. It was annoying to be screwed this way for being a band-wagon-jumper.
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Check what template you used. The DVD templates do not include sound, you render the AC3 sound separately.
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[Bill In Oregon] “Any help on my Vista problems would be appreciated.”
Simple, upgrade to Windows XP. It will cost you some $$s, but it will fix your headaches.
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In order to edit .mov files you need to have Quicktime installed on your PC. I am a little surprised that you get .mov files when you capture however, that is usually not the case when you capture on a PC. Normally you should get .avi files.
.mov and .avi are wrapper formats for Mac and PC. If you capture on Mac you get .mov, and if you capture the same from the same camcorder on a PC you get a .avi file.
What process do you use to capture your video? What software?
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The article is equally valid for video output on computer and TV. This is a problem with compressed video no matter what output. DV is compressed, and I assume you are working with DV.
There are options, but you will probably have to chose colors when titling carefully.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of Video, DV, color spaces and all of that, I think. My understanding is that his is a result of the limited color space of DV etc, and it gets particularly problematic when you go from DV to DVD.
This article describes some of this: https://xyhd.tv/2006/11/technical/shooting-for-hd-why-color-space-matters/
Not sure how you can get around this.
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I have found that Vegas handles images really well. In some video editors you have to contend with square vs non-square pixels and change your pictures accordingly before you drop them onto the timeline. In Vegas I do the following on each image to make sure it looks good:
Put the image on the timeline.
Got to event Pan/Crop
Set “Maintain Aspect Ratio” and “Stretch to fill Frame” both to “yes”From there on all is well.
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Things to look at
1/ Bitrate, 8.2 is just a little higher than I would burn. I have noticed that some players have problems playing DVD-R and DVD+R disks if the bitrate is around max.
2/ Media. Get Taiyo Yuden or other quality media. There is a huge difference in playback quality between good and bad media.
3/ Burn speed. Burn as slow as your burner will allow. This usually yields higher quality burns.
4/ Hardware. If you have had your DVD burner for a while, it may be doing poorly. I have had burners that worked great when I got them but 12-18 months down the line and I get bad burns. I just got my self a new DVD burner just because of this. Don’t know why his is, but I am guessing things like dust and dirt can have an effect on the burners ability to properly burn disks.
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If you render to MPEG-2 and then edit again adding effects, you will see a loss in quality, at the wipes etc, quite possibly a very noticeable loss in quality.
Is there any reason not to add the swipes before rendering to MPEG-2, this seems like a roundabout way of doing things where both work flow and end result would suffer.
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