[Todd Boyle]

Everybody be warned, the menu system on HF-G10 will completely delete all the footage on a chip if you ever say “delete all scenes this date”. They don’t care what date or what scenes– they just delete ALL the data on the chip. I hate this menu, and, there’s no other way to delete pieces of video.

I’ve shot aproximately 100 events with this camera now. The only way to really use this camera is just download EVERYTHING off the camera as soon as you get home, back up your computer files, and just delete everything on the camera.

[Todd Boyle]

If it’s inside the lens assembly or on the CMOS, CCD, etc. then you have to send it in for servicing– and since those areas are supposed to be sealed, it’s probably covered by warranty.

I have a slightly worse problem, I’m afraid there’s been a slight accumulation of moisture somewhere in my HF-G10 causing a very slight darkening or vignetting in the extreme 4 corners of the image when fully zoomed long. I’m just going to live with it, I guess.

[Todd Boyle]

Thanks John!! How can I make the Sony avc render in 655×480 to avoid the softness? I will do that, and increase the bit rate. ALSO, this project is setup as a Standard def. DV AVI project to begin with.. is that okay?

Many thanks for rescuing this project!

[Todd Boyle]

All my videos are an hour or more — I shoot lectures and other public events.

I just toss the footage on the timeline. First I build an intro screen and slam it up there. Then I drag the starting point of the video track to what I am keeping. I play it at 150% speed and when there’s stuff to cut, I select it and hit the delete button. Every few minutes I throw in a title bar with a semi-transparent gray behind it.

This works for me. Ho hum. Routine boring and painless.

Usually you get 40 viewers, sometimes 40,000.

Todd https://www.youtube.com/toddboyle#g/u

[Todd Boyle]

Thanks for the tips, will do the test zoom you recommended. But as you know the output destination is 720×480 anyway so I’m puzzled why the TM tool would look worse than P/C? I literally typed in 960 x 640 in the size settings of TM. The final render goes very fast.. it doesn’t seem to be downrendering twice (for TM and for the NTSC DV output)…
thanks for any thoughts on this.

[Todd Boyle]

Thanks Mike… Yeah I set the project properties as you said… of course my HD clip comes in letterboxed. Then I used Track Motion and used it to zoom in on the middle of the screen, it seems to be the same thing as cropping the sides and letterbox bars.

It also gives me what I want for some other clips where I can only afford to crop about half this much off my widescreen clip…

Now I’m rendering an AVI with the “fit to screen-do not letterbox” option… hopin it works the first time!

[Todd Boyle]

Ok. You have rendered a video with Sony AVC at 1080p, at a high bitrate, with the default settings for “Internet HD 1080p” which I seem to recall is 8mpbs. And before you uploaded to YouTube you run this MP4 file with any ordinary player such as Windows Media Player or VLC media player. And it looks great.

OK then I think your codecs are screwed up because they’re showing you something that YouTube’s converters are not seeing. Hope you don’t have to reinstall Windows LOL! You could reinstall Vegas pretty easy. How bout you render a test clip and send it to your friend and see if it looks good on his computer, and then he sends it up to YouTube?

[Todd Boyle]

I had good luck on Vegas 8, uploading videos to YouTube as WMVs.

Do what Roger and Steve said… “File- Render As- ” select WMV… pick a nice high bitrate at least 1 mbps. I seem to recall having to actually type in the bitrate I wanted…. it wasn’t on the list…

[Todd Boyle]

Thanks will try that. For the current job I found that my powerpoint slides were 2250 x 3000 so I multiplied 2250 x 16/9 = 4000 and added 500 of border to left and right side of each slide in Irfanview, working great. Thanks man.

[Todd Boyle]

Wow, I thought there would be a setting to make Vegas build a mask or crop or stretch the images upon import. It seems, the batch processor in Irfanview will be easier than cutting and stretching the generated solid 100 times by hand… Thanks to all for your help.