PAL Templates?

DronnyBoyd wrote on 12/19/2006, 11:09 AM
Hi everyone

I've been trying out some of the new goodness in VMS PE7, really loving it! One thing I am unclear about, some of the templates (in particular the MP4 ones) only seem to have NTSC frame-rates and not PAL. Has anyone noticed this, or know if its possible to change them? I think its the MainConcept one, it has iPod (at 25fps) and 'default' (which is 29.97fps). Also the Sony AVC/AAC templates are all 29.97...

Thoughts?.....

BTW if there's anyone from Sony listening, let me just tell you that I absolutely LOVE this product, having spent money on other suites (Pinnacle Studio in particular) and given up throwing money away, I found VMS6 and then upgraded to P7 from 6 as soon as I could - its stable, featureful, great value, just wonderful. Keep up the good work!

cheers

Dronny Boyd

Comments

ritsmer wrote on 12/19/2006, 12:16 PM
I thing the given "standard" templates are only thought to be examples as how you might render your video.

Depending on what your needs are, you pick the nearest standard template and customize it - press "advanced render" and then "custom..." - then you are able to fine tune any parameter you want - including the frame rate.

You can even give this result a name, save it and then use it later.

Example: 3 months ago I got a Samsung 50 inch plasma which I wanted tu run in native mode -which should be 1366x768- from my Windows media center - however the picture was far not so clear as I had expected - then - after some evenings of testing I found out that the picture became ice-crystal-clear if i fed it with 1360x768 - strange but a fact.
So I created and saved a VMS template rendering to wmv 1360x768, 25 fps, quality VBR 90, VMV V9 compression.

And yes - VMS and full Vegas are GREAT tools.
DronnyBoyd wrote on 12/20/2006, 1:24 PM
Sorry for being so dumb, but where exactly is the 'advanced render' button?

I have a movie all edited and want to render it -- I choose 'Render As... from the File menu, and I see a souped-up file dialog, with a combo to choose the template. When I choose the MP4 template, the Custom... button is disabled. So... where do I go to get the "advanced render" option????

(Wierdly, I seem to remember seeing it somewhere....)

thanks

Dave.
ritsmer wrote on 12/21/2006, 1:20 AM
You are pefectly right - I was answering from my experience - and I have obviously used most templates except for the aac and mp4 ones :-)

Now I have been through all "Save as type"s - and some of them seem to be locked so that the "Custom..." button is disabled -as you say.

Sorry that I did not notice this.

Here we have decided to use the Windows standards wmv and wma only (for good and for bad :-) ) as the house is wired up with a server where all our content is stored and then some players i.e. Roku MP1001 for the audio and windows media center PC's (i.e. Acer Aspire IDea 500) for video - and I before the time where we standardized it all I cound go crazy supporting all the different Host and Client software for the different players :-)

Now I hope, that somebody else can solve your problem about the frame rates...
ForumAdmin wrote on 12/21/2006, 8:48 PM
The Sony AVC/AAC render format was primarily developed to support videos for the PSP, which is NTSC frame rate only (29.97 fps).

Why do you need PAL frame rates for this format? What is your intended audience for your videos?
DronnyBoyd wrote on 12/24/2006, 11:06 AM
I have started using MP4 at home, for my mediaplayer PC in the living room, its a nice format to deal with (streams better than AVI to other PCs in the house). I just like it :)