Rendering sections: NTSC DV vs. Uncompressed?

prairiedogpics wrote on 5/12/2004, 11:45 AM

Let's say I've got a pretty cluttered timeline (several tracks of video/transitions/composites) and I want to render a portion to a new track to reduce clutter. I want to keep the quality optimal. Do I choose NTSC-DV or Uncompressed as the avi type?

As I understand it, Vegas uses its own proprietary compression scheme for NTSC-DV which supposedly only affects areas where transitions/fx/ mulitple tracks are present. Is the quality, visually, the same (or indistinguishable) from uncompressed?

Any reason not to choose NTSC-DV when render to a new track?

Thanks,

Dan

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Bill Ravens wrote on 9/29/2004, 12:28 PM

I've been experimenting with going to an uncompressed avi as an intermediate step before rendering to MPEG2/DVD. The sequence seems to have merit in the quality of the rendered DVD, since it's less computationally intensive to render transitions and special EFX to uncompressed before rendering to MPEG compression. I 've been feeding the truly uncompressed avi straight into DVDA for burning to disk. So far, the results have been encouraging in that the DVD has no glitches and seems to hold up nicer than being burned from DV format.

riredale wrote on 9/29/2004, 11:25 PM

On this thread, there's something not right
"Old news" was brought into the light
But it's still true what they say
Vegas codes the right way
But right now, it's quite late, so Good Night.

Bill Ravens wrote on 9/30/2004, 7:29 AM

There's a rarely experienced affliction that occurs to people who spend too much time looking into electronically generated images, whether from a computer monitor or dv camera viewfinder. It's curious affect is that it seems to drive the sufferer into fits of poor poetic expression.

The solution, of course, is to have a few doses of double malt Scotch Whiskey, which takes that edge off of perception and mellows the personality.

johnmeyer wrote on 9/30/2004, 9:34 AM

There once was a man from Nantucket,
Whose ...

Oops, too much double malt Scotch Whiskey. Sorry.

rs170a wrote on 9/30/2004, 10:22 AM

...what name will show up for Sony's DV codec?

I asked this same question in a
previous post and Spot's answer was:
Nothing. Vegas' codec won't show up. Unless you are SPECIFYING that you NOT use the Vegas codec, you're using it.

Mike

Bill Ravens wrote on 9/30/2004, 11:33 AM

what was that my old prof's used to say?
I think it went..."The proof is left to the student"