[Wayne Waag]

I’ve been doing slideshows for years using a combination of Proshow Producer and Vegas. I usually do my animations in Proshow (a lot easier, especially for complex, multi-layered effects), export, and then import into Vegas, adding titles, music, and voiceover tracks. However, for fairly simple slideshows, I’ve often used Vegas only and the rendered quality is quite good. I really can’t tell the difference.

IMHO, the important thing is to resize your images before importing them into either Vegas or Proshow. A good rule of thumb seems to be to resize your images to roughly twice the vertical resolution of your output. E.g. Blu-ray is 1080, so resize your images to 2160. An exception would be if you wanted to really zoom in on only a part of the image. Since you have Lightroom, you could easily export to JPG’s with the vertical resolution of your choosing. Regardless, your results will look better using Producer or Vegas.

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[Wayne Waag]

[Danny Hays]
What do you use to stream it to your HD TV?

Perhaps I used the wrong terminology. What I do is simply use a media server (Twonky rather than WMP) to stream files from my PC to the Blu-ray player. Nothing is uploaded.

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[Wayne Waag]

[John Rofrano] This is why I shoot 60i. It gives better temporal resolution and is compatible with 100% of playback devices

So why NOT 60P? Maybe I’m missing something, but it would seem to provide even more options. For those who want a shiny disc, render at 60i to Blu-Ray. For those who want the cadence of 30P, just disable resample and render to 1080 30P. And more importantly, for those who want the best quality (at least, IMHO), render at 1080 60P. For the things that I’ve filmed over the last few years, I’ve always rendered to 1080 60P. I can either stream or use USB storage with my 2 year old Sony blu-ray player which plays the material flawlessly–even within an MKV container because I like chapter support. Another advantage is that if you want to put the material online with YT or Vimeo, you avoid deinterlacing, which is never perfect. Seems to me, at least, there are a lot of advantages of 1080 60P that far outweigh the negatives–at least, for this hobbyist.

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[Wayne Waag]

Being just a hobbyist, shooting 30P is a moot point since my camcorders only shoot 60i, 60P or 24P. Having said that, I bought into the same arguments for using 30P by the “professional” videographers I hired for my daughter’s wedding. Later, I regretted not insisting on having them film in 60P. There occurred a number of spontaneous events throughout the day that, although captured, looked pretty terrible because of the jerkiness due to the lower frame rate. At least, they didn’t film at 24P. So unless you’re filming mountains, turtles, Waiting for Godot, or something that is completely scripted, it seems better to err on the side of safety for recording those unexpected events involving high rates of motions. Plus, as the OP mentioned, you can get a nice slow-motion effect. Just a contrarian point of view.

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[Wayne Waag]

In Firefox, the first video displays at 720–the second, 360.

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[Wayne Waag]

In your example, the easiest thing to do would be to simply add the “FunnyVideo01-” after your files have exported using a Batch Rename utility–I use something called ReName, which I consider indispensible. It’s freeware. If you want to do it within Vegas, then try something like Vegasaur. There are lots of options for naming Markers. It’s not free though.

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[Wayne Waag]

Strange, it should work. If you can upload a small file to Dropbox or something, I’ll try an upload to YT and see if I get the same result. I see that you are using the plug-in Video4Youtube?? Have you tried uploading your rendered file directly?

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[Wayne Waag]

Are you using the capture utility in Vegas? I recall there being complaints over the years. Suggest you try HDVSplit. It’s freeware. It converts each tape to scenes according to time stamp. It’s worked very well for me when I was still filming HDV with my old HC1.

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[Wayne Waag]

I would do a test render to a proper frame size like 1280 x 720. It may be that your weird aspect ratio is the problem. Worth a try.

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[Wayne Waag]

I have this and is one of the 3rd party software solutions that I mentioned that I had trouble with trimmed clips in Vegas (also VideoReDo TV Suite). That’s been a couple of years ago, so perhaps the later releases are better. I’ve got the latest update but have not tried it for trimming clips for use in Vegas. IMHO, it’s far better to use the freeware Sony solution, since it works without issue in Vegas.

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