PSP Vegas and Clients

rextilleon wrote on 12/16/2005, 2:54 PM
My song got a Playstation Personal for his thirteenth birthday and really never used it---so lucky me--I inherited it. I tooks some Vegas edited video, used the PSP render tool and voila, very nice looking video on a very small but attractive screen. I took the PSP loaded video to a client, showed him some of my work, and voila---a JOB!

Beyond that, the PSP also now has a web browser that works real nice in any wireless zone-----very snappy and easy to run. So what was a toy, is now a neat little tool that I can use in my work! Try it, it rocks.

Comments

p@mast3rs wrote on 12/16/2005, 3:36 PM
PSPs look nice but two major drawbacks for me at this time is the required use of a mem stick. Just dont like it. Give me a hard drive and its all butter.

Second, Why not allow users to access the entire screen which I believe is 480x272 but currently supports the lower default resolutions. Heck, why you are at it, give me the ability to author UMD discs and Im happy as pie.
Grazie wrote on 12/16/2005, 11:57 PM
.. and you got the job! Congrats! Grazie
farss wrote on 12/17/2005, 4:55 AM
Patrick,
I agree with you on the UMD issue, I've winged about it more than once. However you can get a HDD unit that takes the place of the memory stick and gives you a bigger battery. Except it does cost as much as a PSP!
Bob.
randy-stewart wrote on 12/17/2005, 4:59 AM
VASST has a couple video tutorials here: http://vasst.com/resource.aspx?id=5c3e3912-030f-4c72-a3a1-a5b0318b3e52 on how to use the PSP with video. I'm pretty sure the whole PSP screen is used also.
Randy
Xander wrote on 12/17/2005, 6:36 AM
Did you see the press release for UMD composer? Go to the news section of this web-site. Guess it is all very hush hush due to Sony DRM protection. Tried to get some further info, but no luck.
rextilleon wrote on 12/17/2005, 8:15 AM
Actually there are three possible screen settings----Full screen--kind of like a stretched 16:9---Normal Mode--and Zoom mode that fills the whole screen and moves into your subject.
APu wrote on 1/5/2006, 9:05 PM
#pmasters

"The PSP has a resolution of 480x272 or 130560 pixels. This equals 510 macroblocks. Since the MPEG-4 Simple Profile cannot support more than 396 macroblocks, it would seem that native resolution support (ie videos in 480x272) is impossible using MPEG-4 Simple Profile."

Source: http://www.m4if.org/resources/profiles/index.html


#rextilleon,

The problem with the fullscreen setting is that the video gets washed out a little so it's not as sharp as normal mode. Then on the other hand I have a Domino trailer (320x240 Anamorphic MPEG 4 512 kbps) which is surprisingly sharp in 16:9 Full Screen.
p@mast3rs wrote on 1/5/2006, 9:26 PM
If I understand correctly, while PSP supports the reso of 480x272 for authored UMDs, that current firmware will not allow a user converted file to be played back at that resolution which would explain why that reso is not available in the drop down options of the Sony AVC encoder in Vegas.
Geoff Edwards wrote on 1/6/2006, 9:37 AM
I think that the versatiliy and screen size of the PSP makes it the best option for portable video right now. So I am building a collection of content for download optimized for PSP.

Cheers.
apit34356 wrote on 1/6/2006, 10:32 AM
PSP can be a powerful marketing tool. There are 3nd party options, ..., to help with the rez issue. If you have content that can be sold with some volume, ie +200 copies, talk with Sony Japen about having them or a 3nd party rendering it using UMD. In the beginning, UMD was solely focus on the big movie market, Sony want a clean product line with few complains or returns. Now that PSP3(BR) is about done, Sony Japen is discussing opening up the UMD access. Vegas group is at the down of food chain in Sony plans, not forgotten, just not a major player. A real push in Japen is for HDV camera line(c1,a1 type) and camera products to be able directly download to PSP and PSP3 in a "new" type of format.
rextilleon wrote on 1/7/2006, 8:42 AM
Yup it does---I seldom use it when showing video to clients