Edit in one size - render in another size

LarsHD wrote on 6/4/2009, 7:35 AM
Example / scenario:


1 - My source footage is 1920x1080 AVCHD MOV files



2 - I transfer the footage to uncompressed AVI files as follows:

a) one batch of 1920x1080 uncompressed AVI files
b) one batch of 960x540 uncompressed AVI file

(I transfer to uncompressed AVI as the original AVCHD is basically unsable to work with. I do archive that on an external drive though).


3 - The uncompressed 960x540 versions U-AVI files play real well on my system. Also during dissolve it maintains full frame rate. So no need for Cineform here. The U-AVI runs at full frame rate and don't give chroma problems etc.


PROBLEM / SCENARIO

1.
Let's say I edit my project using the 960x540 uncompressed AVI files, (I'll call these U-AVI files from now on). They flow nicely and the Raid-0 setup seems to deliver what is needed( = being able to play back at full frame rate during a dissolve = 2 video streams of U-AVI).

2.
I add text in the simple text tool (for instance). As I'm in 960x540 mode the text plugin defaults to 960x540 too.

3.
I now want to render this project to 1920x1080. So I throw in the 1920x1080 versions in the folder where the 960x540 files resided and change project setup fomat.


Now I want to render and face the following:

I set the project to 1920x1080
Now the text plugin is still at 960x540. Which makes the text quality bad when rendering to 1920x1080.

QUESTION1

1 - Can I have the size in the text plugin follow the project size? Alternatively, how can I change the size of 100 text events plugins? And when I want to change back to 960x540 for editing what do I do then?

2 - Is there anything else that I need to change when working with the 960x540 and replacing to 1920x1080 except for the text plugin?


This workflow requires no special codec on my system,. Just U-AVI which gives me optimum quality and also no depending on third party updates / problems = peace of mind.



Best & thanks in advance
Lars



Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/4/2009, 8:36 AM
1) nope, it's not automatic.
2) all generated media.

Easy solution: set your project to 1920x1080 & put your lower res files in there. I'd give QT-PNG's a try too. They're a lot smaller then U-AVI, same (higher in some things I've noticed!) quality & should work just as fast minus the QT wrapper.
Chienworks wrote on 6/4/2009, 8:49 AM
Set your project to the higher size settings to begin with. Do all editing at the higher project size settings. When you want to render the lower size version simply specify that size in the Render As dialog. No need to change the project settings.
A. Grandt wrote on 6/5/2009, 2:29 AM
Imho, what we need is to be able to work more easily with proxy files, and have a way to generate these inside Vegas, or at least assign proxy files to the full/high-res clips, while having the ability to easily shift between the two, so we can edit on Proxy, and render on quality.

At least until computers get fast enough to handle HD as well as they do SD now :)

Sadly neither VASST's Upshift, or Cineform retains the original audio streams in the AVCHD files.