JPEG project for SD DVD and HD tape

aldo12xu wrote on 8/13/2005, 11:42 AM
I'm working on a set of jpeg photos on which I'm panning, cropping and zooming. Initially I will want to output the final edited project as mpeg-2 files for a widescreen DVD and also as Real Player files for the internet. At the same time I would like to print to tape a high definition version of the project to my Sony FX-1 camera. That way I would have the project available in High Definition so that I can distribute it on BlueRay/Toshiba/whatever the next generation DVD format turns out to be.

Can I do this all in Vegas 6 or will Gear Shift make things a lot easier for me?

I have a Pentium 4, 2.40 Ghz and 512 Mb RAM.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/13/2005, 12:53 PM
GearShift won't help you at all regarding the JPEGS, but will help you edit in a more convenient/high speed format, whether you want to work with DV proxies or with CineForm codec.
Wolfgang S. wrote on 8/13/2005, 1:53 PM
For a 2.4 GHz P4, I strongly recomment to work with proxy files, maybe not even with cineform intermediates. DV-avi widescreen or mjpeg-avi proxys shouls be helful, we have discussed that some time in the forum.

Gearshift is a good way how to support you here. Take care that you do not work with a lot of small m2t files - then Vegas will crash. Work with larger pieces instead, then everything is fine.

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aldo12xu wrote on 8/13/2005, 10:53 PM
Just to clarify, I'm not working with m2t video files. Only Jpeg photos that I'll be animating with zooms and pans. I also haven't bought Gear Shift.

Here's the workflow I read from the GS tutorial:

1. Capture your HDV m2t files via Vegas capture utility.
2. Run GearShift on the M2T files to create a DV proxy and (optional) YUV conversion
3. Apply the 601/709 colorspace preset in the Color Matrix Filter.
4. Edit using the DV Proxy files
5. When you’re ready to render, press the ShiftGears button to exchange the DV proxy for the Cineform or YUV files (or for the m2t files if you didn’t create Cineform or YUV files)
6. Render your project
7. If you need to continue editing, press ShiftGears again to exchange the DV proxy for the HD media

What would I do differently if my source files are .jpeg and not m2t files? Do I open the new project as 1080-60i, import the .jpeg photos into the timeline and then go to step 2?

And one last question, does Gear Shift come with Ultimate S?

Thanks in advance,
Aldo.
farss wrote on 8/14/2005, 2:48 AM
I've made two commercial DVDs this way and a 3rd on the way, starting with monster res stills. Vegas seems to handle several 100 such stills OK but you need a pretty beefy system with lots a RAM.
For future storage to output to HD DVD your cheapest option would be to just leave it all on a HDD. You could render to HD 4.2.2 YUV or HD uncompressed and have a post house put it onto HDCAM tape, better still would be HDCAM SR which uses square pixels.
I do all my editing of these projects at HD, not HDV, then encode to SD DVD.
Bob.