beginner filmer looking for help

ballen wrote on 11/7/2009, 12:23 AM
hi, i'm new to the forum and have a few questions that i hope someone could answer to help me out. I just started filming with a panasonic dvx100 in 24p and 24pa. I'm TRYING to learn everything by myself but isn't working out to great. Currently i use vegas movie studio platinum 8 and am having a lot of trouble importing and rendering in 24p. If someone could be kind enough as to let me know what i should do to achieve this, it would be a huge relief.

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Paul C wrote on 11/7/2009, 1:30 AM
Hi,
I've just tried to set up a project for some 720P 24fps footage, and although there are no presets for project set up, you can simply type '24' into the frame rate box in project properties and VMS will accept it.

Rendering is a bit more tricky, as it depends on the format. For MPEG2, VMS won't allow you to alter presets, but you can do so if you render out to an AVI intermediate format. Depends what your ultimate delivery format is.

Paul
musicvid10 wrote on 11/7/2009, 5:56 AM
To set your Project Properties to match your media properties (including frame rate) in Vegas, you click on the folder icon in the upper right hand corner of the Project Properties dialog, and navigate to one of your media files. You then click "Apply," and all the media properties are imported in one step, including the frame rate and field order, in your case 24P. This is called "Match Media Properties" in Vegas.

You can render 24P using the Sony AVC codec or AVI in Vegas Platinum 9.
Eugenia wrote on 11/7/2009, 10:12 AM
First of all, make sure you record in 1.000 aspect ratio at 854x480. Secondly,. make sure you pick the kind of 24p format that is actually 24p without pulldown addition, because the Platinum version doesn't support pulldown removal from these cams. Thirdly, regarding the format, I am not sure if it's supported. If it's not, then you need to buy the Raylight plugin.
ballen wrote on 11/8/2009, 10:22 PM
thanks for the tips but i don't think i'm doing it right. i did the 854x480 with the 1.000 ratio. also figured out that it doesn't support 24p. how do i go about getting the raylight plugin and operate it?
Eugenia wrote on 11/8/2009, 11:50 PM
How did you shoot? Did you shoot in real 24p, or with pulldown addition? If you captured with pulldown addition, then there's nothing you can do, you need Vegas Pro I believe.

As for Raylight: When you put the footage on the timeline, do you see video? If yes, you don't need Raylight. If no, then it will cost you $180 I think.

ballen wrote on 11/9/2009, 7:09 PM
yes i'm shooting in just regular 24p. and when i put my footage in the timeline it does appear.
Eugenia wrote on 11/9/2009, 7:16 PM
Ok, then it's easy. You use the yellow-ish icon in the Project Properties dialog to match up the properties automatically. Use "best" for rendering quality. That's about it, you are ready to go.