How to render video at recorded quality

Wouter wrote on 5/25/2014, 1:36 PM

Hello,

I have a Sony HDR-CX155E which can recod in 1080i.
Together with Movie Studio Platinum 12 I was never able to generate video's at the same quality of recording.

Read: when I play original recording directly from the camera connected to a full HD TV, the images are great.
After editing a movie, images are getting a little blurry. I have tried many rendering settings.

So I tought it was the camera not having 1080p (progressive mode) for which I now bought the new Sony HDR-CX330E.
I have also installed Movie Studio 13.

The problem persists: also here I can't seem to match the recorded quality.
In Movie Studio 13 there even not yet seem to be a rendering profile that matches the Sony HDR-CX330E recording quality (PS mode: 1080p, 50 fps, 28mbit)

Simple test: when recording a 1 min video clip, and just rerendering that one - without any modification, always comes with a (not small) difference in file size.

QUESTION: How to render video in the best quality ? The Sony PS mode 1080p can be taken as a case.

Thanks for your support.

Wouter

Comments

Markk655 wrote on 5/25/2014, 3:14 PM

Now, that is an expensive solution. :)

What are your rendering settings? How are you viewing the rendered files?

If you can, feel free to upload a short file from the camera and one that you rendered from it.

Wouter wrote on 5/25/2014, 5:05 PM

Indeed an expensive solution, but I wanted to have the progressive mode in any case.

After more searches on the internet I found that it is actually a common problem, with the solution being to
(1) Disable resampling:

(2) Make custom project and rendering settings (eg. in my case to support the double PAL 50.000fps)

Further feedback ofcourse welcome.

musicvid10 wrote on 5/25/2014, 6:52 PM

If you want the same file size, Copy and Paste the file in Windows.
28 Mbps CBR can be rendered at 18 Mbps VBR without losing quality, much of the time.
Compression is compression. Efficiency is efficiency. Neither, in itself, is an indication of quality.