This is my first post, but I've been reading this forum for about a year now, mainly to understand the issues and avoid problems when I start editing HD.
Up till now, I've been a VMS 9 user and editing my Standard Def mini DV. Recently I bought my first HD camera and realized that to make HD DVDs I needed to upgrade to VMS 10.
I thought some background before my questions might be helpful, and I'll highlight my questions below.
BACKGROUND: My HD camera is a Sony CX 550V, and I installed VMS HD Platinum production Suite along with DVDA 5.0 this week. For playback of the discs, I have a PS/3 and a Sony Blue Ray player model BCP-S360.
The video I shoot is mainly family, events and travel. I want to be able to distribute these to friends and family. Since I"m now entering the HD world, If I edit a long video, I want to burn it to a Blue Ray disc for my use and also to send to others that have a BD player. For those that don't have a BD player, I want to burn it to an SD DVD. And for shorter videos, I would like to burn by HD to a regular DVD. I would like to do all this without having to re-edit my timeline, but knowing I have to render in these different formats.
ACTIONS TO DATE:
I like to do things one step at a time. My first action was to use the PMB software that came with the camera. It allows one to select AVCHD clips from the camera and burn them to a regular DVD, as either HD or SD. I did both as a test and they work fine on both players. The main downside, is as far as I can tell, that software doesn't allow any editing of the clips.
My next step, knowing that I could add AVCHD clips to PMB, was to use VMS 10 to edit a short video of 3 minutes, using clips from teh camera and add a few titles, and a few dissolves. This remains as my main test video for now. I first rendered it as AVCHD, which took 18 minutes for a 3 minute clip, and then used PMB to select that render and burn it to a DVD. That too worked fine, a way to edit and burn using PMB, which is very easy and works, but way too long to render.
Next, taking advice I've read on this forum, I decided to not select Make Movie, as some folks indicated problems with slow and jerky video and audio, so I took the advice to render the video and audio separately. I rendered the video using MainConcepts MPEG-2 at 1920 x1080- 60i and 25mbs and then rendered the audio using Sony Wav64 and specifying 48K PCM. Then I started DVD achitect but I was not able to correctly add the video and audio. I used INSERT in DVDA to first select my video file, and then tried that again to select the audio file. It created two separate buttons and each would only play video or audio respectively. I should haven mentioned that I started the DVDA project by stating it was a Blue Ray disc project.
QUESTION 1: If in fact this is the preferred way to make a HD disc, how do you create these separate files and bring them into DVDA so it knows that are related as a video and audio pair. I can't seem to figure that one out.
(not knowing how long a post can be, I will now start a separate entry to continue my questions.)
Up till now, I've been a VMS 9 user and editing my Standard Def mini DV. Recently I bought my first HD camera and realized that to make HD DVDs I needed to upgrade to VMS 10.
I thought some background before my questions might be helpful, and I'll highlight my questions below.
BACKGROUND: My HD camera is a Sony CX 550V, and I installed VMS HD Platinum production Suite along with DVDA 5.0 this week. For playback of the discs, I have a PS/3 and a Sony Blue Ray player model BCP-S360.
The video I shoot is mainly family, events and travel. I want to be able to distribute these to friends and family. Since I"m now entering the HD world, If I edit a long video, I want to burn it to a Blue Ray disc for my use and also to send to others that have a BD player. For those that don't have a BD player, I want to burn it to an SD DVD. And for shorter videos, I would like to burn by HD to a regular DVD. I would like to do all this without having to re-edit my timeline, but knowing I have to render in these different formats.
ACTIONS TO DATE:
I like to do things one step at a time. My first action was to use the PMB software that came with the camera. It allows one to select AVCHD clips from the camera and burn them to a regular DVD, as either HD or SD. I did both as a test and they work fine on both players. The main downside, is as far as I can tell, that software doesn't allow any editing of the clips.
My next step, knowing that I could add AVCHD clips to PMB, was to use VMS 10 to edit a short video of 3 minutes, using clips from teh camera and add a few titles, and a few dissolves. This remains as my main test video for now. I first rendered it as AVCHD, which took 18 minutes for a 3 minute clip, and then used PMB to select that render and burn it to a DVD. That too worked fine, a way to edit and burn using PMB, which is very easy and works, but way too long to render.
Next, taking advice I've read on this forum, I decided to not select Make Movie, as some folks indicated problems with slow and jerky video and audio, so I took the advice to render the video and audio separately. I rendered the video using MainConcepts MPEG-2 at 1920 x1080- 60i and 25mbs and then rendered the audio using Sony Wav64 and specifying 48K PCM. Then I started DVD achitect but I was not able to correctly add the video and audio. I used INSERT in DVDA to first select my video file, and then tried that again to select the audio file. It created two separate buttons and each would only play video or audio respectively. I should haven mentioned that I started the DVDA project by stating it was a Blue Ray disc project.
QUESTION 1: If in fact this is the preferred way to make a HD disc, how do you create these separate files and bring them into DVDA so it knows that are related as a video and audio pair. I can't seem to figure that one out.
(not knowing how long a post can be, I will now start a separate entry to continue my questions.)