Ex1 + HVX200a + HPX500 footage shootout

cchoy wrote on 6/9/2010, 3:53 PM
Hi guys--

I would be most grateful if someone could help me out-- I'm a little stumped and frustrated!

I recently got a couple of friends of mine to shoot EX1 and HVX200a and HPX500 footage all of the same subject at the same time. I wish to see the difference in quality between the camera's footage when it is projected. So they've given me the footage and I can't seem to open anything in Vegas 8. The HVX and HPX files are .mxf and the EX1 footage is .mov.

What is the best way to view this footage uncompressed on an HD projector?
Thanks!

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farss wrote on 6/9/2010, 4:16 PM
If the EX1 footage is ".mov" then it is NOT native EX1 footage.
Ask them for the original BPAV folder intact with all its contents or the .mp4 file(s).

Bob.
cchoy wrote on 6/9/2010, 5:02 PM
Okay so I've got the bpav folders and I've got raylight ultra. Now here's the problem

I want to render this stuff so it looks awesome on an HD projector. Nothing I render from Vegas looks good. What settings do I do. The "uncompressed" setting looks terrible in VLC and Window Media player and quicktime. The MP4s also look bad. So do WMVs. Raylight Avi's won't play in VLC or quicktime and look TERRIBLE in WMP.... any ideas?

(thanks for the help so far...)
farss wrote on 6/9/2010, 6:49 PM
Can you better define "terrible" ?

What specifically is changing between the source and the rendered output. Some specs on the HD projector would help too i.e. native resolution.

Bob.
cchoy wrote on 6/11/2010, 2:18 PM
Everything is blocky and just looks compressed. The HD projector we are using as a second monitor for the computer. It does up to 1650 x1080 but the footage I want to show would be 1280 x 720 (720pn). I don't know what is changing between the source and the output, because I just want to be able to project the source cleanly!
Patryk Rebisz wrote on 6/11/2010, 3:51 PM
HPX500 will look best
then EX1
then HVX200.
farss wrote on 6/11/2010, 4:24 PM
What codec, what resolution etc, etc are you rendering it to?

Bob.