I am trying to edit digitized footage from a VHS tape.Tape was a copy from 8mm film so the digitized quality wasn't great to begin with. I've made edits and I'm confused as to what settings to use when rendering for best quality to an MP4.
The properties of your digitized file from VHS tape (PAL/NTSC?) from 8mm film can be "anything" --- chocolate, strawberry, vanilla. kumquat.
Please provide us with those essential properties, so that someone here can best advise; otherwise, it would be nothing more than a bad guess.
The properties of your digitized file from VHS tape (PAL/NTSC?) from 8mm film can be "anything" --- chocolate, strawberry, vanilla. kumquat.
The advantage of VMSP17 is, that it doesn't matter if "anything" = chocolate, strawberry, vanilla or kumquat (whatever that is). As long as projectsettings are according chocolate, strawberry, vanilla or kumquat, VMSP17 will render with the Make Movie MP4 option chocolate, strawberry, vanilla or kumquat.
A third generation asset (2 analog, 1 digital), is as often as not a Frankenfile, where encode errors are often baked in. More often than not, the file properties from MediaInfo will leave vestiges of those changes, by comparing it to known analog source format specifications. Sometimes, honoring auto matching of the garbage file properties in Vegas is the worst thing one could do, if one could imagine doing anything at all...
The next step, upon seeing the full file properties, would be to request access to an actual file sample. That way, one could advise if "any" miscoding could be unbaked, such as the one I fixed with a pseudo-pulldown correction from progressive Youtube material.
Thanks for seeing the thread of logic in my troubleshooting technique, by requesting the "required" file properties from MediaInfo and Vegas, rather than suggesting it was a superficial request.
Totally unfamiliar with Mediainfo. When I clicked on "required" it said it was for Vegas Pro. Is this also applicable to Movie Studio 17 Platinum?
Yes. 101% applicable.
Sometimes it is overseen that VMS is meant as a video editor for beginners , so non professionals who are not having a technical video background like some of us. Therefore VMS has a simplified UI and tools that to support those unfamiliar users. Ofcourse with VMS you also can deep dive into video editing but that approach could also make it unnecessary complicated for beginning video editors.
Yes, "best results" without becoming "unnecessarily complicated." That's where having seasoned professionals such as you can help separate the wheat from the chaff.
To my opinion "best results" from a digitized VHS copy from 8mm film is Utopia, no matter which approach. But please go ahead with your complicated approach. I'm out.
@Robert-Walden Differences of opinion aside it would help to have MediaInfo on your file. Is it PAL or NTSC, what is its image size, bitrate, framerate, interlaced or not? MediaInfo should answer all of these, and more.
Lastly what is the intended destination of your required mp4 file. YouTube/Vimeo/Facebook etc or showing on TV?
Besides info about used bitrate (needed for what), my version of VMSP gives all this information and sets project accordingly when I put the first clip on the timeline.
When choosing for MP4 option (for creating internet- ready videos), the Make movie wizard renders automatically a mp4 with correct framesize,framerate and suitable bitrate. If source is interlaced than VMS deinterlaces to meet internet standards.
This is exactly what a beginners video editor should do, make movie without need for technical video details.