Having trouble with HDV and rendering....

KSTONER wrote on 2/2/2010, 1:01 PM

Hey there gents, it seems as though whenever I come here, I'm always asking for help rending wise. Anywho, I'm trying to render some HDV footage into an uncompressed AVI file, only to get the video to play REALLLLLLY slow.
I'm not entirely sure why this is happening. Whenever I try uncompressed this happens. The audio seems to play fine though.
What do you guys suggest?
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Comments

Terry Esslinger wrote on 2/2/2010, 1:05 PM

Uncompressed AVI are HUGE files. Are you sure that you don't want DV.avi?

KSTONER wrote on 2/2/2010, 1:50 PM

That depends. Is there any visible quality loss?
I'm not very knowledgeable in this field...:(

NickHope wrote on 2/2/2010, 7:49 PM

What are you trying to achieve? Instead of uncompressed, you could try one of these:

HuffYUV - lossless. Needs installing.
Lagarith - lossless. Needs installing
SonyYUV - bundled with Vegas
Cineform - you have an old version of this bundled with Vegas

I would say the Cineform will be most likely to play smoothly and you'll get negligible quality loss if you render it right. It should be the smallest file by quite a margin too.

KSTONER wrote on 2/2/2010, 8:13 PM

Agh...I'm SO sorry. I did not make my post very informative. What I'm trying to achieve is a nice clean video file for viewing my finished work. The footage was captured as an .m2t stream. I wanted to render all of those clips as one nice HD clip. I apparently was thinking in the land of SD .avis.
I hope that helps. Sorry again, guys.

Yoyodyne wrote on 2/2/2010, 9:03 PM

I think I understand what you want. How about rendering to wmv? Just pick one of the high quality templates that matches your project, this should play back great on your machine and look good.