There is a project I have been planning for some time about which I have many questions. I have been using Vegas since version 3.0 and now have vesion 7. However, I have been working in mini-DV, specifily shooting with my DVX-100 and outputing to DVD.
The project at hand will be mostly shot on an HDX-900 in DVCPRO HD @ 108024pA. I plan to capture on DV Rack to external sata drives. Nearly every frame of the video is greenscreened. The DVCPRO HD is run though Ultra 2 and output as 1280x1080 32bit uncompressed with an alpha channel.
1. I shot one short greenscreen segament with the HDX-900 as a test.
In the test files the pixel aspect ratio for the dvcpro footage is set at 1.5 in Vegas. The project setting are HD 108024p (1920x1080 23.976fps). The PAR is 1.0.
The image appears to be the correct ratio.
Are these settings correct?
2. There will be two layers of video that originated as DVCPRO HD, run through Ultra 2 and keyed. There will also be a background layer or plate shot on my DVCX-100. This is a 720x480 file. I will have this as a lower track. In my test I cropped the image to fit the 1920x1080 frame and set the PAR at 1.2121.
Again, it seems to look OK.
Is this the proper way to approach this?
3. I want to be able to deliver this in HDCAM. A local production house can do this for me. They say they can use a Sony YUV file to do this.
I have rendered this test out to Sony YUV uncompressed and it looks correct. The files that orginated in DVCPRO HD look much better, of course.
Does this seem to be a correct approach?
4. I would also like to burn this to DVD. I don't understand what is required to burn an HD dvd. I believe it is not possible yet with Vegas.
I know that when I rendered the test Sony YUV file to NTSE Wide Screen MPEG, it seemed to maintain the proper PAR(the image size changed slightly) but the file lost a great deal of resolution, both the DVCPRO files and the DV25 files.
When I rendered the test project files, not the Sony YUV file, to NTSE WS MPEG, image size changed slightly and, again, both types of files lost a good deal of resolution.
Any information dealing with any of these issues would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
belker
PS: I had an earlier thread on this forum where I was able to get much feedback and worked out the shooting and capture of DVCPRO HD. Thanks again for that.
The project at hand will be mostly shot on an HDX-900 in DVCPRO HD @ 108024pA. I plan to capture on DV Rack to external sata drives. Nearly every frame of the video is greenscreened. The DVCPRO HD is run though Ultra 2 and output as 1280x1080 32bit uncompressed with an alpha channel.
1. I shot one short greenscreen segament with the HDX-900 as a test.
In the test files the pixel aspect ratio for the dvcpro footage is set at 1.5 in Vegas. The project setting are HD 108024p (1920x1080 23.976fps). The PAR is 1.0.
The image appears to be the correct ratio.
Are these settings correct?
2. There will be two layers of video that originated as DVCPRO HD, run through Ultra 2 and keyed. There will also be a background layer or plate shot on my DVCX-100. This is a 720x480 file. I will have this as a lower track. In my test I cropped the image to fit the 1920x1080 frame and set the PAR at 1.2121.
Again, it seems to look OK.
Is this the proper way to approach this?
3. I want to be able to deliver this in HDCAM. A local production house can do this for me. They say they can use a Sony YUV file to do this.
I have rendered this test out to Sony YUV uncompressed and it looks correct. The files that orginated in DVCPRO HD look much better, of course.
Does this seem to be a correct approach?
4. I would also like to burn this to DVD. I don't understand what is required to burn an HD dvd. I believe it is not possible yet with Vegas.
I know that when I rendered the test Sony YUV file to NTSE Wide Screen MPEG, it seemed to maintain the proper PAR(the image size changed slightly) but the file lost a great deal of resolution, both the DVCPRO files and the DV25 files.
When I rendered the test project files, not the Sony YUV file, to NTSE WS MPEG, image size changed slightly and, again, both types of files lost a good deal of resolution.
Any information dealing with any of these issues would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
belker
PS: I had an earlier thread on this forum where I was able to get much feedback and worked out the shooting and capture of DVCPRO HD. Thanks again for that.