Mixed formats/same track - best option?

montego wrote on 11/13/2008, 1:39 PM

I have lots of footage that I've shot with my Sony HC1 HDV cam and a Canon HF10 that I want to use together in a video. I know I can downscale these easily enough and render to 720P for Vimeo, but can I render to AVCHD for playback on my PS3? I'm confused by the pixels of the Sony HDV 1440 as compared to the 1920 stuff I shot with the Canon. If I render 1920 AVCHD is the 1440 HDV stuff going to look correct?

Also, I mistakenly have a couple of shots using the Canon Hf10 in 24f mode, but I do not want to do pull down and render in 24. Can I use these shots as is with my other HDV and AVCHD footage? Do I need to do anythihng special with interlacing on those clips when rendering so that they will look normal?

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Chienworks wrote on 11/13/2008, 1:59 PM

You're thinking *way* too hard.

Set the project properties to the desired output format. Drop all the clips on the timeline. For those that don't match the output format, open up Pan/Crop, right-mouse-button click in the cropping frame and choose 'match output aspect'. Let Vegas do all the math and worrying for you.

As far as the 24f clips, Vegas will probably Do The Right Thing with them. However, you may want to try playing with the various de-interlacing modes to see if any of them look better on those particular clips. Interpolate will probably give the smoothest motion with no combing, but will also be the least sharp as it throws away one of the fields.

Eugenia wrote on 11/13/2008, 3:00 PM

Set up the project properties to the 1920x1080 HF10's standards (use "match media" to an .m2ts file). The HDV files will just stretch to HF10's footage. As for PF24 (24f is something different), if you don't remove pulldown, it will be seen as 60i from Vegas because these streams are in a 60i wrapper. If you export in AVCHD 60i, you will never have a problem on your TV. But if you export non-pulldown-removed PF24 footage in anything else than 60i, you will get ghosting. Vegas doesn't support PF24 pulldown removal because Sony doesn't like Canon's policy of not including "attributes" in the stream to tell their software which frames need to be processed. So Vegas will see these as plain 60i.

So, use the HF10's project properties, use interpolation for deinterlacing algorithm, "best" quality, and then at the end export in AVCHD 1080/60i.

montego wrote on 11/17/2008, 11:12 AM

Thanks to both of you for your answers. Sorry if I sound like a newbie, but it's just that I find the new HD formats and their various iterations to be confusing., especially once AVCHD came along. I'm learning.