Terry Esslinger
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The Z1U is the “pro” version of the FX1 which is what I have. Your cam puts out HDV for HD and DVCaam or DV for SD. There is a menu setting that you need to change depending on what you want to record and capture. You can capture HDV and output HDV or DV (cam conversion)or you can capture DV and output DV. For the Vegas HD capture app to capture HD you must have the cam set for HDV and have taped in HDV. Since the SD app seems to recognize the cam I would say that you did not do one of those things. Your computer will capture DV as DV.avi and it will capture HDV as M2TS (MPEG2 transport stream)I don’t believe you have any other choices. Unless you want to cam convert and capture your HDV footage as DV.avi (standard definition)
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US does not seem to work in 64 bit.!
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What Spot is probably talking about is kind of disquising the ‘black bars’. One way is to take a duplicate of your video on track one and placing it on track 2. Then using any method enlarging that track 2 video to fill the whole screen. Then do something like make it black and white and add a gaussian blur (or do it in color – whatever your taste)To many people this looks better than just black bars.
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[i]The one I have going now- the left upper corner of the timeline says 01:43:08;29 I assumed this was the length? Is this 1 hour 43 minutes etc? And if so, why will it not save to my HD- telling me it may not fit in the place I want to put it? [/i]
What format are you trying to save it to the HD as? .avi video needs a minimum of 13GB per hour or footage and usually much ,more for it to actually work.[i]
I am confused though, because the one DVD I burned, as I look in properties at it’s size- it says it is 18.9 GB but the DVD only holds 4.7 GB or 120 min On the DVD, it says length is 01:29:23 [/i]
A single layer DVD will only hold about 70 minutes of MPEG 2 material (the language of DVDs) at what is arguably decent quality 6-8,000,000)So if you got moore than 70 minutes then your program must have automatically reduced the bit rate to fit it onto the DVD. You can actually get several hours on a DVD but you wouldn’t want to watch it.:(. You should probably try to limit your DVDs to less than 70 minutes and make mutiple DVDs if necessary. Or use double layer DVDs – but thats another can of worms. -
If you capture MPEG movies (as from a DVD camcorder) Vegas will have MPEG video. Actually Vegas doesn’t really save the video. You use a capture app to capture the video to your computer and it generally will capture in the format that your camera sends it as. Vegas then looks at that video footage and and makes notes as to what to use and what to do to it. It does not change the footage at all (non destructive editing). It saves these notes as the .veg file (in VPro) and .vf in Studio I believe. The only time it will change the footage (and not the original footage) is when you RENDER a new file using the instructions that you have created in the .veg file. What you render out of Vegas should depend on what your purpose is for the file. MPEG is not really made for editing it is made for viewing. If you take MPEG footage and render it as MPEG (as for another DVD) you will be taking a lossy format and rendering it into a lossy format. The quality really takes a hit.
To answer your question directly. You can RENDER a vegas project into .avi and save it. It will look better when viewed than a rerendered MPEG file but still not as good (probably) as the original. DVD camcorders are made for people that want to take their shots and live with them, not edit them.
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First, if you do not know that you are in PAL country then you are probably in NTSC land. I think PAL is generally most of Europe.
Secondly, as far as your commercial movies, there are different wide screen formats. I believe all wide screen TVs are built to the 16:9 ratio. But many wide screen movies are not done in 16:9. This could result in black bars (of varying sizes) above and below your picture even if you have your TV and DVD player set up right.
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This question has been asked dozens of times and its almost always the same answer. Render as MPEG2 out of Vegas (Use Mainconcept DVDA MPEG 2 video stream. Set the bit rate according to how much data you have to render. The default values are a little skewed. Then render an AC3 audio stream. Then take both those files into DVDA. They wil;l not be rerendered and you will have the best possible quality.
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Ah Edward,
You jumped in ahead before I could get his answer as to how he was making his PiP. I felt the problem was in his use or non-use of keyframes but was trying to lead him to it. Your way was quicker. -
First, are you making the PiP via event pan and crop or track motion?
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You want the NTSC DV for the exact copy. As that should be what you captured from your camera (unless you are in PAL land). Your camera does not produce uncompressed avi.