Could someone pls. explain me s-l-o-w-l-y and clearly the basics of HDV editing workflow with Vegas.
I'm editing videos only as a hobby, not as a profession.
Now, what confuses me is this discussion of proxies, intermediates and natives. Basically I understand the principle behind those but I'm still unsure which method should I use.
Basically what I like (and intend) to do is to transfer the HDV-material from camera to disk; edit the material; transfer the edited HDV-material back to tape (as HDV) and compile & burn a SD DVD for watching the video from my TV-set. In the future will lay the possibility to have this full HD(V).
Not doing this commercially I do not know beforehand whether I will do "heavy compositing" (don't know if I even have skills to do it, since I'm not aware what is ranked as "heavy"). Transitions, color correction all the time, others when seem appropriate.
So, should I use Cineform or not? If I run HDV mpeg-stream through Cineform, will it keep the quality 100% (i.e. no generation loss, no resolution loss). If I print non-edited material back to tape, will Cineform again be 100% transparent? In this case will I benefit from Cineform or should I do better without (i.e. is Cineform 100% transparent also on this sense so that I do not see it anywhere or lose any standard Vegas functionality).
Or should I just forget Cineform, save $200 and work what comes with Vegas? To my understanding there is "limited" version of CineformHD included, which will require separate rendering after the capture.
Or should I forget everything and work directly with native m2t -stream as V7 now supports it better than V6.
Or should I ditch my A1E and go back to my good old TRV33? Or find another hobby, like taming tigers or riding stingrays...
I'm editing videos only as a hobby, not as a profession.
Now, what confuses me is this discussion of proxies, intermediates and natives. Basically I understand the principle behind those but I'm still unsure which method should I use.
Basically what I like (and intend) to do is to transfer the HDV-material from camera to disk; edit the material; transfer the edited HDV-material back to tape (as HDV) and compile & burn a SD DVD for watching the video from my TV-set. In the future will lay the possibility to have this full HD(V).
Not doing this commercially I do not know beforehand whether I will do "heavy compositing" (don't know if I even have skills to do it, since I'm not aware what is ranked as "heavy"). Transitions, color correction all the time, others when seem appropriate.
So, should I use Cineform or not? If I run HDV mpeg-stream through Cineform, will it keep the quality 100% (i.e. no generation loss, no resolution loss). If I print non-edited material back to tape, will Cineform again be 100% transparent? In this case will I benefit from Cineform or should I do better without (i.e. is Cineform 100% transparent also on this sense so that I do not see it anywhere or lose any standard Vegas functionality).
Or should I just forget Cineform, save $200 and work what comes with Vegas? To my understanding there is "limited" version of CineformHD included, which will require separate rendering after the capture.
Or should I forget everything and work directly with native m2t -stream as V7 now supports it better than V6.
Or should I ditch my A1E and go back to my good old TRV33? Or find another hobby, like taming tigers or riding stingrays...