Printing HDV to Tape

PeterWright wrote on 7/13/2005, 10:06 PM

First, slight confusion - Project properties - for Z1 in/out (50i HDV).
Should I use the 1920 x 1080 or the 1440 x 1080 template?

The reason I'm asking - I'm trying to put a 30 min project out to tape using 1440 x 1080 and it says it'll take 8 hours. I don't want to wait that long then find I should have used a different setting!

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 7/13/2005, 10:29 PM

I don't know the answer.... but how about rendering a 5 second piece and seeing if that will produce the right result?

PeterWright wrote on 7/13/2005, 10:44 PM

Good idea Liam - I'm doing that now .......

edit - well, just put the first 45 sec out ok - took a couple of mins to render - the same with both templates. The 8 hours must be for rendering dissolves, graphics and the FX I've applied (not many). And of course, it may not be 8 hours - that's just Vegas' early estimate!

I'd still like to know which template to use .......

ForumAdmin wrote on 7/14/2005, 7:12 AM

Output to HDV requires rendering of the timeline using one of the (unmodified) HDV MPEG-2 templates, in your case that would be "HDV 1080-50i"

PeterWright wrote on 7/14/2005, 8:02 AM

Yes, thanks - I did use that for printing to tape, and though it took ages to render it's now on tape and looking good..

I was more wondering on the implications of using either of the two 50i Project templates:

1440 x 1080, with a 1.3333 pixel aspect ratio, or

1920 x 1080, with a 1.0000 or square PAR

When and why should I use either of these?

ForumAdmin wrote on 7/14/2005, 12:13 PM

"1920 x 1080, with a 1.0000 or square PAR"

This would be used for projects destined for HDCAM.

Sony HDV by the way looks fabulous when output to HDCAM through Vegas.

PeterWright wrote on 7/14/2005, 6:38 PM

Thanks for the clarification.