Delivering a HD file

Jessariah67 wrote on 12/21/2008, 5:59 PM

I need to deliver a HD version of my film for the deliverables. For reasons I can't get into, I'm rendering from SD source material. I've set the settings to 24P 720 and was rendering with the YUV codec. 40 minutes into the render, I got an error message, cuz I ran out of disc space (I had 99G available). I know M2T files are the same size as SD AVI files - is something in my settings off? This looks to be full-blown HD at 25MBps. If that's what it needs to be, I can do it on another drive, no problem. I was just surprised. Any ideas or better solutions? Thanks in advance.

KH

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jrazz wrote on 12/21/2008, 6:05 PM

The YUV codec, as far as I know, does not make M2T files. The MainConcept mpeg-2 does. I believe the YUV is in an AVI wrapper yes?

j razz

TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/21/2008, 6:27 PM

you can do WMV HD. that's pretty good quality.

John_Cline wrote on 12/21/2008, 7:36 PM

YUV is, for all intents and purposes, uncompressed. If you could "get into the reasons", we might be able to help you. What do they want to do with this file once they get it? HDV M2T might not be the best way to go.

Jessariah67 wrote on 12/21/2008, 8:03 PM

It's just deliverables for the movie's DVD/Blue Ray release. the movie was shot in HDV, but Vegas 8 was crashing like crazy when I tried to replace the proxies in the end, so I had to keep it in SD. There's so much involved in this at this point that it really is close to impossible to go back.

Laurence wrote on 12/22/2008, 7:35 AM

Hard to explain why, but if you want to get an HDV render, this will probably work:

Save as an EDL and load in 7d. Use Gearshift to swap in original clips and render to a master with smart-rendering of long GOP turned off in your preferences.

fldave wrote on 12/22/2008, 8:23 AM

YUV as said above results in --very-- large files. If they can read Cineform that would be better than you creating an m2t and they compressing again. Best thing would be to check with the recipients to see what files they can read on their end.