http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: settings - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:06:58 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-vegas-project-template-vs-render#post-67290 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:58:47 +0000 PJ McConnell 67290@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>"Is it as simple as me just setting up the template in HD, then choosing to render as either HD for BluRay or SD for DVD?"  </p> <p>Yep, it is that simple.</p> <p>"Setting up the template in HD for editing but then rendering to SD will not cause issues will it?!"</p> <p>the only issue you might run into is letterboxing because of different aspect ratios, but you can fix that by altering the SD frame size while rendering.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-vegas-project-template-vs-render#post-67286 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:09:45 +0000 Cville 67286@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>No issues.  I use Vegas pro 10.  I shoot and edit in HDV and render out based on what I need.  For the most part I render out SD wide screen dvd but I also render out for Blu-Ray when required.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-vegas-project-template-vs-render#post-67285 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:50:19 +0000 navyspecwarfare 67285@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>So, sometimes I am a bit confused about the difference between setting up the Sony Vegas template vs. the render settings. </p> <p>I am assuming that the template is supposed to match my media.  In other words, if I shot in HD, I should make sure my template matches those HD settings.  If I shot in SD, I should make sure the template matches that such as NTSC DV 720x480. </p> <p>I am also assuming that you just render to whatever media you want your final project on. </p> <p>So, in my case, I have footage shot in HD.  I want to edit it in Vegas, yet I want to have the option to output it to both HD Bluray and SD DVD.  </p> <p>Is it as simple as me just setting up the template in HD, then choosing to render as either HD for BluRay or SD for DVD?  Setting up the template in HD for editing but then rendering to SD will not cause issues will it?!</p> <p>Many thanks. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/canon-xh-a1s-169#post-61987 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:31:20 +0000 rickamcl 61987@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I have an XH-A1s also.  If you are in 4:3, then the camera is set up for standard definition.  If you are wanting to stay in SD, but shoot in 16:9, push your menu button, choose the Signal Standard option and it will give you a choice of:  HD, SD 16:9, or SD 4:3.  Choose the SD 16:9 option and you will be shooting in that format.  </p> <p>If you are wanting to go to HD, then choose that option and it will automatically go to a 16:9 format.  </p> <p>Let me know if this works for you.  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/canon-xh-a1s-169#post-61986 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:27:03 +0000 Brummie 61986@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Just bought this camera and still pushing buttons but the manual is not too clear. How does one set this thing to record 16:9 ? As far as I can see I am still recording 4:3 no matter what setting I have entered. I guess I am just a dummy but I would sure be glad of some help ASAP. Thank you.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/panasonic-hvx201ae-adobe-premiere-pro-cs4-youtube#post-57794 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:43:05 +0000 Raincheck 57794@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> </p> <p>Hi Pseudo,</p> <p>The first test (PAL Widescreen Source to High Quality Download.wmv) is acceptable but no HD</p> <p>The second one (Quick Time PAL DV Wide screen.mov) no widescreen no HD</p> <p>Third test (YouTube Widescreen SD.mp4) quality is reasonable but again no HD</p> <p>The last test (YouTube Widescreen HD.mp4) is excellent and in HD format</p> <p>Grtx Rick</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/panasonic-hvx201ae-adobe-premiere-pro-cs4-youtube#post-57792 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:18:53 +0000 pseudosafari 57792@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Something's wrong--the video is flipped or something because it looks like your steering wheel is on the passenger side.</p> <p>(Sorry, just a little cross-Atlantic humor.)</p> <p>But seriously, the Quick Time movie looks distorted (tall and skinny).  The HD clips look pretty sweet to me.  The settings you used for the widescreen HD clip must be pretty good--it looked good to me.</p> <p>FYI I know what it's like with Adobe.  I used Pinnacle for years and it was so simple.  I upgraded to Adobe and for a month or so, I wondered why I did!  It has sooooo many options!  But once I figured it all out, I prefer having all the options.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/panasonic-hvx201ae-adobe-premiere-pro-cs4-youtube#post-57786 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:35:33 +0000 Raincheck 57786@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hi Rob,</p> <p> </p> <p>Thanks for the reply, in the mean time I did some test myself.</p> <p> </p> <p>This is completly based on my personal setup:</p> <p>Importing footage from Panasonic HVX201AE (1080i) into <br />Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and export for YouTube HD format.</p> <p> </p> <p>You can follow this link and see for your self the differance</p> <p> <a href="http://www.bublin.eu/YouTube"></a><a href="http://www.bublin.eu/YouTube" rel="nofollow">http://www.bublin.eu/YouTube</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Hope some one will have some use out of it</p> <p> </p> <p>Grtx Rick...</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/panasonic-hvx201ae-adobe-premiere-pro-cs4-youtube#post-57773 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:46:00 +0000 robGRAUERT 57773@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>oops...forgot to post thing link:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTUsA7Em1Ug" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTUsA7Em1Ug</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/panasonic-hvx201ae-adobe-premiere-pro-cs4-youtube#post-57771 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:31:17 +0000 robGRAUERT 57771@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>With the HVX, I think you should shoot 720p30. It doesn't natively record 1080i and you'd have to deinterlace for the web anyway. You can shoot 24p if you want, I've read that computer screens work at 30p. People don't seem to have major problems with either frame rate.</p> <p>Here's a tutorial I made for compressing for the web. I demonstrate with Apple's Compressor, but the principals apply to all software</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/panasonic-hvx201ae-adobe-premiere-pro-cs4-youtube#post-57770 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:37:15 +0000 Raincheck 57770@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Sorry to ask this question but I need to!  There is so much info out there but still I havent found the perfect settings/setup.</p> <p>I use a Panasonic HVX201AE + Adobe Premiere pro CS4 to shoot and upload to Youtube.</p> <p>I prefer to do widescreen and all is digital.</p> <p>First Panasonic settings what is the best format to shoot?</p> <p>Second Adobe Premiere settings to import and export to get the best results in Youtube.</p> <p>Hope to find some usefull tips</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Rain</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-vegas-9-rendering-issues#post-54101 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:06:02 +0000 CraftersOfLight 54101@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> How about a little more information? What type of PC, (as much as you can tell us about processor, ram, harddrive(s), operating System, as simple as right-clicking on My Computer and selecting Properties from the list and reading from the System section on the screen)? What type of video are you editing (SD, HD, AVCHD, DV, HDV, etc.)?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sony-vegas-9-rendering-issues#post-54087 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:03:28 +0000 Nottalobster 54087@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have Sony Vegas 9, and I've looked up all the tutorials and I think I have everything set correctly, but when I render my video, the audio is all choppy and the video is just a black screen with designs going on it and it freezes my whole computer. I don't know if I have everything set correctly, but I do not think that it's too much memory. I've tried it about 4 times, and always put it in the same place. Could I try another place or different settings? I really have no idea. Please help.<br />And I'm not really all that hi-tech so try and explain it simple please.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-setting-for-sports#post-52804 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:07:37 +0000 grinner 52804@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> ditto. you can strobe in post if you want a film look but you have to have the information on tape to do it preset auto is yer buddy for action sports.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-setting-for-sports#post-52771 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:34:17 +0000 Derek_Sine 52771@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>4:3 - stay away from frame mode, looks good, but can limit you if you wanted to slow down some footage. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-setting-for-sports#post-52752 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:05:48 +0000 XTR-91 52752@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>You should judge whether or not to shoot 16:9 by your primary audience, in terms of what most likely they will be using. This is kind of a tricky one if your shooting for TV - nearly equal fractions of the population (currently) are using Standard CRTs and HDTVs. I'd pick the aspect ratio in which you feel more comfortable getting your shots better. Since it's not in HD and the camera doesn't shoot 16:9 natively, I'd go with 4:3.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-setting-for-sports#post-52746 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:08:27 +0000 robGRAUERT 52746@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have never gotten a good explanation of what frame mode is on that camera. If I remember correctly, the manual says it's so you can analyze your video frame by frame. So I'm guessing it's some attempt at imitating progressive scanning video, although I've never read anything stating that it's truly progressive. So I doubt is.</p> <p>I used to use that camera in high school to shoot sports after school ever day. So I assure you that shooting in "Normal" mode is just fine. It's just good ol' 60i.</p> <p>As for the aspect ratio, whoever told you shooting 16:9 is bad for sports doesn't know what they're talking about. Your aspect ratio doesn't make something easier or harder to shoot, it's just simply a different option. So shoot whatever aspect ratio you want. </p> <p>Technically, 4:3 is the better option because the GL2 doesn't natively shoot 16:9, but no one will notice any degrading of the image if you shoot 16:9. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-setting-for-sports#post-52744 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:34:48 +0000 Lukinharocha 52744@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have a canon gl2, and I'm doing a project for the community TV, and i don't know the best settings for recording sports, skateboarding mostly. Some people said 16:9 with frame mode is the best for sports, but then someone said the frame mode slows frame rate down, and then 16:9 would not be good for sports. Since this is the first time I'm doing a skateboard video for TV i don't know the best settings.</p> <p>If you could share the one you think would be the best setting for sports, putting in mind that i am doing it for TV.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-quality-for-dvd#post-47783 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:10:12 +0000 jimcvideo 47783@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I tend to deinterlace my footage, mainly because I like the look better (okay, I actually shoot with cameras that allow me to record deinterlaced, which is the best way to go in my mind).</p> <p>If you're seeing these stripes only on your TV, then you may be encoding something improperly. You say that you're in Europe. If you're shooting or editing footage in NTSC, then playing back the footage on a PAL device might be causing some of your issues. Make sure that you render everything in PAL format.</p> <p>Can you send a screenshot or photo of what it's doing on the screen. Stripes can be a lot of things, from misformatting as I mentioned, to dirty heads on your camera. IF we could see it, it might help to diagnose the issue.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-quality-for-dvd#post-47774 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:51:46 +0000 heavy harris 47774@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>thank you for prompt answers!!!</p> <p>i from east europe</p> <p>i shoot in SD while by us hd technology is not  very spreadet</p> <p>in our country exists only 5 sony hvr z7 camcorder</p> <p>you now that the tv is interlace and the pc monitors noninterlace</p> <p>when i make a dvd a see some horizontal lines when the subject are in move</p> <p>what is came of settings sould i do ??</p> <p>can you send me a saved template or tell me what came of project setting and rendering settings to use to have the best quality???</p> <p>thx</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-quality-for-dvd#post-47760 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:45:50 +0000 jimcvideo 47760@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Sarge,</p> <p>I laughed when you mentioned colors being off. I remember a mentor of mine jokingly referring to NTSC as standing for "Never The Same Colors". </p> <p>On the bright side, with NTSC forever being banned from US airwaves in just a couple days here, We're ready to move into the world of ATSC, which of course stands for "Almost The Same Colors"!</p> <p> </p> <p>:-D</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-quality-for-dvd#post-47759 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:38:28 +0000 XTR-91 47759@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm not very familiar with Sony Camcorders, but from a little bit of research, I figured out that yours is an HDV (High Definition Video) camcorder shooting in standard definition. What SD quality are you shooting in? Depending on the length of your video, you'd probably want to export in HQ (high quality) with Dolby Digital audio if these settings are available. This is what my editing software uses.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-quality-for-dvd#post-47758 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:30:28 +0000 SargeHero 47758@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>When I make my DVD I render in Main Concept MPEG-2 with the template in DVD NTSC Video Stream. I had never had any problems with the rendering, besides the ridiculous long time it takes (because of my computer) but  the quality of the DVD is pretty good. Since you record in PAL you will need to set the template to DVD PAL or DVD PAL separate stream. Don't forget to do this because if you choose NTSC as a template your frames and video resolution will not be the same and it will damage the quality. Then go to a DVD creation software and make an awesome DVD menu.</p> <p>Another thing, the quality will look good on a computer, but not necessarily in a DVD player. It depends on the television that its used. I had this problem in a previous shortfilm I make, I edit it in a 1920X1080 HDMI monitor and it look good and all, but when the movie was shown in projector WOW...... some of the colors look bad and some scenes had excesive brightness... well what can we do, all movies will look different in TV and projectors. Keep this in mind, but you should have a good quality of DVD in general.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-quality-for-dvd#post-47751 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:05:34 +0000 heavy harris 47751@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>hy </p> <p>thos is my first post !! its a great forum!!!!!</p> <p>i have a urgent question</p> <p>i have a sony hvr z7 camcorder</p> <p>a shot in PAL SD 720X576 25 fps</p> <p>what is the best quality setting and rendering settings in vegas8???</p> <p>what i can i do to make the best quality when i play in dvd player and PC monitors</p> <p>pls help me!!!</p> <p>thank you</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-quality-to-dvd#post-41402 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:07:26 +0000 Coreece 41402@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Also,  what format is your miniDV footage. ( ex. AVI, MOV)</p> <p>You want to make sure you have the best possibly quality prior to encoding DVD.  If your video was compressed or converted to a lossy format somehow during the editing process, it will not look pretty once that file is finally compressed to Mpeg 2 DVD.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-quality-to-dvd#post-41400 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:50:39 +0000 Coreece 41400@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>There will always be some quality loss when encoding for DVD. (even if you can't notice it)</p> <p>DVD footage needs to be mpeg2 which is a lossy format, but it shouldn't look bad if its encoded properly.</p> <p>The three general formats are:</p> <p>1 PASS CBR:</p> <p>This is for shorter videos that have a minimal amount of fast action movements and/or pans This is the faster method of encoding and will render a larger file.typically the best bit rate will be 8mbps, but 7mbps is good too.  You can go higher but this is not recommended because it may be to fast for some DVD players. </p> <p>1 PASS VBR</p> <p>This setting may not be available with many encoders and really isn't necessary, but it would typically be used with longer videos with a minimal amount of fast movement.</p> <p>2 pass VBR</p> <p>This is used for longer videos that include fast action movement.  It will analylze the video in the first pass and than encode a higher bit rate for parts of the video that have fast action and lower bitrates in the areas that have less movement.  This format maximizes quality while maintaing a smaller file size.  The bitrate will depend on how long your video is.   In variable bitrate encoding, there are 3 settings:</p> <p>    - Average Bitrate - Maximum Bit Rate  - Minimum Bitrate</p> <p>The range between 6.5 -8.0 mbps will render better quality, however, if you video is over 90 minutes, you'll have to use a lower range.</p> <p>I have noticed that motion graphics and animated backgrounds seem to be more affected by DVD compression, so if this describes your video, expect there to me some undesireable effects.  There really is not too much you can do...DVD compression was great for awhile, especially when there were only tube TVs.  The moitors today are very detailed and show off all the imperfections.  </p> <p>If you have a Good HD monitor, you'll notice that any Hollywood Blockester on DVD has some artifacts in the motion graphic intros...and in some cases, it's really bad...including text.  You'll also notice some artifacts in the darker scenes of the movie as well.  But sometimes, you really can't tell unless you're looking for it.</p> <p>It also may help to do a search for a good Bit Rate calculator.  This may make it a little easier for you to determine the settings for VBR.  If you don't like the quality using the settings that the bit rate calculator gave you, try using a higher rate if you video didn't max out the space on the DVD.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Corey</p> <p>Its not necessary to know this, but you may see settings for GOP(groups of pictures).  You can usually keep this at the default setting.  GOP is the compression technique that gives DVD compression its lossy characteristic.  Thaey consist of I-frames B-frames and P-frames.</p> <p>I found this following explanation from wikipedia to be rather humorous the fist time I read it:</p> <p>MPEG-2 specifies that the raw frames be compressed into three kinds of frames: intra-coded frames (<a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/I-frame">I-frame</a>), predictive-coded frames (<a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/I-frame">P-frames</a>), and bidirectionally-predictive-coded frames (<a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/I-frame">B-frames</a>).</p> <p>An <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/I-frame">I-frame</a> is a compressed version of a single uncompressed (raw) frame. It takes advantage of spatial redundancy and of the inability of the eye to detect certain changes in the image. Unlike P-frames and B-frames, I-frames do not depend on data in the preceding or the following frames. Briefly, the raw frame is divided into 8 pixel by 8 pixel blocks. The data in each block is transformed by a <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform">discrete cosine transform</a>. The result is an 8 by 8 matrix of coefficients. The transform converts spatial variations into frequency variations, but it does not change the information in the block; the original block can be recreated exactly by applying the inverse cosine transform. The advantage of doing this is that the image can now be simplified by <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Quantization_(image_processing)">quantizing</a> the coefficients. Many of the coefficients, usually the higher frequency components, will then be zero. The penalty of this step is the loss of some subtle distinctions in brightness and color. If one applies the inverse transform to the matrix after it is quantized, one gets an image that looks very similar to the original image but that is not quite as nuanced. Next, the quantized coefficient matrix is itself compressed. Typically, one corner of the quantized matrix is filled with zeros. By starting in the opposite corner of the matrix, then zigzagging through the matrix to combine the coefficients into a string, then substituting <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Run-length_encoding">run-length codes</a> for consecutive zeros in that string, and then applying <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Huffman_coding">Huffman coding</a> to that result, one reduces the matrix to a smaller array of numbers. It is this array that is broadcast or that is put on DVDs. In the receiver or the player, the whole process is reversed, enabling the receiver to reconstruct, to a close approximation, the original frame.</p> <p>Typically, every 15th frame or so is made into an I-frame. P-frames and B-frames might follow an I-frame like this, IBBPBBPBBPBB(I), to form a <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Group_of_pictures">Group Of Pictures (GOP)</a>; however, the standard is flexible about this.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-quality-to-dvd#post-41393 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:04:27 +0000 robGRAUERT 41393@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <blockquote><p> Is the quality of a consumer miniDV camcorder going to look bad when burned to a DVD?</p></blockquote> <p>No. Just compress it properly. You may not even really have to compress it if your video is less than 4.7GB.</p> <p> </p> <blockquote><p> What are the best settings to render the miniDV video footage and burn it to DVD and have the greatest possible quality?....</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p> </blockquote> I just render it as DV/DVCPro NTSC.   </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-quality-to-dvd#post-41380 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:41:20 +0000 RockstarRider 41380@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Is the quality of a consumer miniDV camcorder going to look bad when burned to a DVD?.......</p> <p>What are the best settings to render the miniDV video footage and burn it to DVD and have the greatest possible quality?....</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-express-settings#post-40752 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:14:51 +0000 CarefreeDenny 40752@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks for your help.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/final-cut-express-settings#post-39174 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:04:38 +0000 robGRAUERT 39174@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Neither of those are right. 1080i60 is still 30fps, but it's interlace, so it's 60 fields. You said you shot 30 progressive frames, so you may have to do a custom set up. I'm not sure if you can do that in FCE or not. </p>