Help with mixed formats

JHendrix wrote on 6/4/2009, 8:01 PM

I have footage in:

30P (HD720P format from the HVX 200)

and

HDV 30p (1440 x 1080) from the canon XHA1

Want to edit and have HD master that will go out to some sort of mixed format DVD (meaning I want the DVD to play HD if a user has it but also have an SD option for those who don't).

Whats the best Vegas settings for this mixed format project?

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JHendrix wrote on 6/20/2009, 7:49 PM

corug7 wrote on 6/20/2009, 8:05 PM

I would work on a 1080p timeline and allow the 720p footage to be upconverted in Vegas. When you are done you can export standard definition MPEG-2 for your SD DVD project. For the HD side you will want to export AVCHD for an AVCHD disc or something like WMVHD for ROM content to be played back on a computer. If you go the AVCHD route, I think you can render an autoplay AVCHD disc from the timeline. Then create an autoplay SD DVD in DVDA. Use a DVD burning program and include both the Video TS folder from the SD DVD and the BDAV (?) folder from the AVCHD project on a data DVD (I think it needs to be UDF 2.5). This disc should play back SD on a standard def DVD player and HD on a Blu-Ray player. We have done this for a client in the past but it has been quite awhile and I do not recall from memory exactly how it worked. It did work quite well, though. Good luck!

JHendrix wrote on 6/27/2009, 12:59 PM

Thanks!

"I would work on a 1080p timeline"

which setting is that though in Vegas presets? (I get mixed up between HD and HDV project settings since I have both types of media)

Anyone else? Still not 110% clear on what to set the Vegas Project Properties to considering my 2 types of media.

JHendrix wrote on 7/1/2009, 8:39 AM

actually, my test so far reveal that a 720 timeline yields better looking 720 P2 mixed with the HDV.

no uprez....

unless Im missing something and it is possible to get crisp 720 P2 on and in the larger format timeline- please let me know.

musicvid10 wrote on 7/1/2009, 8:49 AM

"Still not 110% clear on what to set the Vegas Project Properties to considering my 2 types of media. "

Keep in mind that the Project Properties affect the Preview appearance, not the finished Render. The Render Properties affect the output, so you would want to try different Project Properties to approximate the appearance of your output during preview.

To put it differently, the Project Properties do not in any way affect the size and aspect of the finished render, only the motion blur, deinterlace mode, 8 / 32 bit mode, etc.

JHendrix wrote on 7/1/2009, 10:36 AM

but are they not a somewhat useful guide as to what a render might kind of look like?

musicvid10 wrote on 7/1/2009, 11:25 AM

Yes, they would. I tried to say that in my second paragraph, above.