Wayne Waag
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You don’t have Word Perfect installed, do you? It also uses a .wdp extension. This is totally weird. Some program somewhere is hijacking your wav renders and renaming them, much like association icons. A true mystery. Hope you solve it.
wwaag
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Even better (also free), you can open a one line Avisynth script in Virtualdub, use the UT Video lossless codec, selecting the YUV422 BT.709 VCM preset and the resulting file should be identical to the orginal ProRes file. Rendering is pretty quick.
wwaag
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[Rick Shorrock]
Any free programs you might recommend to convert the files to something that will work in Vegas?
Just downloaded one of the freebies and confirmed that it will not open in V13. I found 2 ways to easily convert to MP4. First Photoshop CC, although it’s really slow. You can also convert to Apple Animation in PS, which is even slower. Second, and free, is Handbrake. Surprisingly, it opened without any problem and I was to able to render pretty quickly to a high bit rate MP4. Both the files from Photoshop and Handbrake opened in Vegas without issue. Only thing I could see different is that chroma sub-sampling was reduced from 4:2:2 to 4:2:0. Also in both instances, you will need to apply a Studio to RGB conversion to bring it back to 0-255. Apple Animation rendered at full scale, but don’t know if chroma subsampling was maintained.
wwaag
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IMHO, a better solution. Render your audio to a wav file(s). Use the freeware Imgburn to create CD image and then burn. This approach works for CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays. My own rule of thumb has been to never use the “burning” part of any application. Create the image file, yes, but always burn with Imgburn. Never a problem. Just a suggestion.
wwaag
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Perhaps you didn’t see the changes I made to my post. I recommend the use of Handbrake. There is an excellent script which permits one-click operation. https://www.vegasvideo.de/vegas-2-handbrake-en Takes awhile to install, but once set up, it works extremely well and also about twice as fast as CPU renders. The other alternative is TMPGEnc’s Mastering Works 6, which I found to be even faster than Handbrake, but it costs around $100 US whereas the Handbrake approach is free.
wwaag
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Do NOT use Quick-sync for 1080 renders, use CPU only. It works OK for 720, but not 1080. For 720, only use the quick setting, not quality. Sony has acknowledged this problem, but as of yet, it hasn’t been fixed. If you want to use quick-sync for 1080 60P renders (which I do all the time) then frameserve to Handbrake (faster than CPU only) or TMPGEnc’s Mastering Works (even faster than Handbrake).
wwaag
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[Johan Lundqvist]
“What I want to achieve is an edited, rendered and good-looking movie that I’ll put on my NAS-drive and watch on the media player attached to my TV (currently WDTV Live).”
If you’re using a WDTV Live, you may be limted to 25 fps, regardless, unless you render at 720 50 fps. I live in NTSC land, and still use the older WDTV when traveling and it will NOT play media files rendered at 1080 60P, regardless of the bit rate. Depending upon viewing distance, the differences between 1080 and 720 will be negligible for a 50 inch TV.
As far as obtaining the best quality at the lowest bit rate, there seems to be a consensus that Handbrake which uses the x264 encoder is the rendering tool of choice. In most cases, simply accepting default settings will produce high quality renders with bit rates less than 10 Mbps. There is a script that can be installed which permits “one-click” operation, which I highly recommend. https://www.vegasvideo.de/vegas-2-handbrake-en It takes a bit of an effort to install, but once set up, works extremely well.
wwaag
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Glad you solved your problem. Izotope is really great.
wwaag
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Try using the track compressor which is automatically applied to all tracks by default. Just play around the threshold and the amount of compression. It can also be applied to specific audio events if you don’t it applied to the entire track.
wwaag
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This time, I agree completely with Steve. Keep a copy of the original. AVCHD is about as compressed as it gets. If you feel the need to reduce size, then simply render to something like Handbrake, just like you were going to put the video on YT but do NOT reduce the frame rate. One thing I’ve learned with family videos I’ve taken over the past 30 years, is that there is no final editing. As an editor, you always learn something new, the software is improved, and new things become available that you may want to apply to footage taken many years earlier. Bottom line for me at least, keep it in the orginal condition–that’s the best it will ever be. In fact, keep 2 copies. Hard drives are pretty cheap these days and you don’t want to lose these memories due to a drive failure. Plus, it’s a lot easier and much faster to simply “copy” rather than “render”.
wwaag