Hoping someone can help.
I have a Sony HDR-XR520 that records in AVCHd format. I imported video to my computer's hard drive via Sony's Picture Motion Browser. The files are M2TS. I have Vegas Pro 8c and I'd like to edit the videos using this. I can drop the files onto the timeline and I have set project parameters as per the clips (upper field first, pixel aspect 1.333) with de-interlacing set to interpolate and 'best' for rendering quality. I edited and then rendered out to MPEG-2 (friend wants MPEG version plus I then went to DVDA to make a standard DVD for friends who don't have HD. Problem is that the quality of the MPEG and resulting DVD is not good (looks a bit pixelated/ghosty around people with the sharpness being poor). PMB has the option of converting straight to MPEG2 but doing that and then rendering out again to MPEG2 seems wrong. Am I missing something obvious? I see Vegas 8 can import AVCHD direct (MTS files) but I started that and then stopped fairly quickly when it was clear that that would take forever.
Can anyone see the mistake I must be making because I'm sure Vegas must be able to do downconversions to SD as it is pretty good at all other things.
Thanks for looking and hope you can help.
I have a Sony HDR-XR520 that records in AVCHd format. I imported video to my computer's hard drive via Sony's Picture Motion Browser. The files are M2TS. I have Vegas Pro 8c and I'd like to edit the videos using this. I can drop the files onto the timeline and I have set project parameters as per the clips (upper field first, pixel aspect 1.333) with de-interlacing set to interpolate and 'best' for rendering quality. I edited and then rendered out to MPEG-2 (friend wants MPEG version plus I then went to DVDA to make a standard DVD for friends who don't have HD. Problem is that the quality of the MPEG and resulting DVD is not good (looks a bit pixelated/ghosty around people with the sharpness being poor). PMB has the option of converting straight to MPEG2 but doing that and then rendering out again to MPEG2 seems wrong. Am I missing something obvious? I see Vegas 8 can import AVCHD direct (MTS files) but I started that and then stopped fairly quickly when it was clear that that would take forever.
Can anyone see the mistake I must be making because I'm sure Vegas must be able to do downconversions to SD as it is pretty good at all other things.
Thanks for looking and hope you can help.