Rendering

XLA wrote on 9/23/2008, 2:22 PM
Hey Guys,

I`d like to render parts of my video and the project size is HD 1920x1080..I know that there are options like the HD 1080-60i YUV and NTSC DV Widescreen..

I couple of times i`ve rendered parts in HD1080-60i but now i`m thinking whats the point if my computer can`t even play it smoothly..what i need is a reasonable widescreen frame size that plays smooth and has the best quality for my computer.. I'd also like to render it for the web, DVD and Tape later (never done that one ).

Maybe you could help me out here, i don`t have a clear understand of what codec and formats suite which...????

Thank you once again!
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Comments

Robert W wrote on 9/23/2008, 3:02 PM
The Windows Media Video codecs are in my opinion a good place to start with HD encoding. They play back well on most moderate spec PCs and they can be played back on Xbox 360s with recent firmware for easy HD on domestic tvs.

You should try WMV advanced profile codecs. It supports interlace settings. Also depending on what the source video is, you may need to apply a colour correction filter that converts from Studio RGB to Computer Colour to get the right colours levels. Check out Glenn Chann's excellent guide on this at www.glennchann.info .
XLA wrote on 9/23/2008, 6:25 PM
I used to use the windows media codecs in my amateurish phase when i would edit with Movie Maker and I remember them being quite good, but this project is much more dense in that there are alot more tracks, filters, effects..

Besides the fact that its taking a long time to render (i`m at 61 % since 30 minutes ago) I'm noticing in the realtime preview window that firstly, I've mistakenly (unknowingly ) selected an output frame size of 640 x 480 x32(?) 30p when my project is in fact 1920 x1080. Because there is alot of green screen material that i've rezized and moved around about x,y & z axisis the result looks like im losing some of the content at both horizontal extrimities and top and bottom are too long.

I should mentionned that I have integrated 720x 480 SD material into this project but for the most part, i've followed someones hint in the forum to match it to output source in the crop area.

I know that there may be a few different factors, but to sum it up , why or how can I simply get what I see as an output.

thx,

xla
XLA wrote on 9/23/2008, 6:56 PM
i did check out the website you referred and seems to be quite useful..I'd love to master getting the colors right as well eventually ..

thanks for the extra info,
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Robert W wrote on 9/24/2008, 2:55 AM
WMV Advanced profile is a very professional format. Labelled as VC-1 it is one of the core formats for Blu-ray and HD-DVD. If you render to WMV from a Studio RGB format then you really need to convert the colours to Computer RGB for it to look right.

If you are using different smaller interlaced frame formats you may need to work with the whole project in progressive mode in order to avoid combing effects.
Grazie wrote on 9/24/2008, 3:02 AM
"WMV Advanced profile is a very professional format" - Thanks for that Robert. I came across that 2 days back and didn't know what it was. I should've known to come here and asked.

Thanks again,

Grazie