Can your other video editing package edit HD MPEG-2 files? That's what Upshift creates. MPEG-2 is a standard that is not Vegas specific, so it should work on editing systems that can do HDV. Though perhaps there is something else going on.


If your other nle can edit mpeg-2, perhaps you need to change the bitrate.

> I have AVCHD Upshift, but it produces very large files that only Vegas can work with

You could use the custom settings to lower the bitrate and lengthen the GOP in UpShift. The default is 50 Mbps GOP 1 but most prosumer HDV cameras shoot 25 Mbps GOP 15 and it looks (and edits) just fine. So start with the Hign Speed / Low Quality setting and change the Bitrate to 25 Mbps and Bitrate Control to Variable.

~jr

Hi

I just tried to convert some Panasonic HCM150 footage at 50 Mbit in AVCHDUpshift and the filesize was not that much bigger than the original. Tried at 25 Mbit first, but 50 Mbit looked better, and playback was smooth with 4 videotracks at priview/best.

/Ulf

I use TMPG xpress 4

Does a good job and have compared it to a few other options and still rate it as my best option

Rory

Large files should not be an issue today, disk space is incredibly cheap. Once you get past that hurdle the Cineform codecs work in just about every NLE, only exception might be Avid systems.

Your other choice is the XDCAM codecs and rendering to MXF. That sure works in Ppro, I believe it'll work in FCP and Avid systems as well.

As for doing the convertion, you don't need anything really, you can simply render using Vegas. Don't know about Gearshift, I think it'll render to anything. If not the Multirenderer in Peachrock's Veggie Toolkit uses Vegas to render to anything that Vegas supports at any template that exists or you care to create and with only a few clicks of the mouse.

Bob.

Ulf,

How do the Mpeg2 files look, compared to avi's?

Gearshift seems a bit complex to me, I guess I'll just stick with AVCHD Upshift for now and start saving for large eSATA drives to eventually house my video editing work.

i use upshift and also canopus avchd converter...converts to avi...looks good and smooth to edit...

How do the Mpeg2 files look, compared to avi's?

I have not tried any render yet, but in preview they look good. I tried to compare to native AVCHD footage, and actual frames looked as good as the AVCHD.

At first I tried 25 Mbit CBR in AVCHD Upshift, but it did not look as good, and I had some strange stuttering happen in the footage at some place at full FPS in the monitor, so something strange happened.

/Ulf

i use upshift and also canopus avchd converter

Hi Stopint

How do you get Canopus HQ to play in Vegas - never worked for me :-(

/Ulf

i've never done anything special ... the files convert to an avi and drag right in vegas ... but not exactly sure if it is canopus hq...it is the avchd converter that comes with edius neo...