Ok, after having spent nearly one week of my life and hundreds of hours rendering time trying to get a WMV-HD file out of Vegas that would play back smoothly on my new Kiss DP-600 HD-player I think somebody might take advantage of my findings, so here they come.
The goal is to generate a WMV-HD file from recordings of Sony's HDR-FX1 camera with the best possible quality. In other words: to preserve the camera's resolution 1440x1080/25i as much as possible.
However the DP-600 apparently doesn't recognize non-square pixels, so 1920x1080 is the required output resolution.
Unfortunately Vegas' WMV renderer can not handle interlaced files (not even in the Advanced Profile), so 25p is the name of the game. For deinterlacing I recommend to use the Smart Deinterlace filter by Mike Crash - but that has already been discussed elsewhere on this forum.
Very important: The compression buffer is set to 8 secs as a default but that is much too large for the DP-600 (possibly due to lack of memory) and will result in audio distortions and jerky playback.
Reduce the playback buffer to 4 secs and keyframe interval also to 4 secs.
Video smoothness should be left at 90 or reduced to 80 if lots of motion occur.
Bit rate should be 12M (or 10M to save some space).
Audio should be CBR, 192 kbps, 48 kHz or 5.1 surround (but also with 48 kHz as this is the sampling rate of the camera's audio).
If you avoid 24 bit and use 16bit instead, the DP-600 will output the audio digitally to any AV-Receiver which may be better than using the internal audio decoder.
That's all. Hope it helps. Comments welcome, of course.
Martin
The goal is to generate a WMV-HD file from recordings of Sony's HDR-FX1 camera with the best possible quality. In other words: to preserve the camera's resolution 1440x1080/25i as much as possible.
However the DP-600 apparently doesn't recognize non-square pixels, so 1920x1080 is the required output resolution.
Unfortunately Vegas' WMV renderer can not handle interlaced files (not even in the Advanced Profile), so 25p is the name of the game. For deinterlacing I recommend to use the Smart Deinterlace filter by Mike Crash - but that has already been discussed elsewhere on this forum.
Very important: The compression buffer is set to 8 secs as a default but that is much too large for the DP-600 (possibly due to lack of memory) and will result in audio distortions and jerky playback.
Reduce the playback buffer to 4 secs and keyframe interval also to 4 secs.
Video smoothness should be left at 90 or reduced to 80 if lots of motion occur.
Bit rate should be 12M (or 10M to save some space).
Audio should be CBR, 192 kbps, 48 kHz or 5.1 surround (but also with 48 kHz as this is the sampling rate of the camera's audio).
If you avoid 24 bit and use 16bit instead, the DP-600 will output the audio digitally to any AV-Receiver which may be better than using the internal audio decoder.
That's all. Hope it helps. Comments welcome, of course.
Martin