Your suggestions for format?

Opampman wrote on 4/2/2008, 7:10 AM

I have a stock close of about 10 seconds in SD that I tag our productions with. It is in an uncompressed AVI format. All I have to do is drag it to the timeline at the end of a show and that's it. Now, I have re-created it in HD in 1920x1080 with 5.1 surround. What would be the best format to render it in so I can do the same with an HDV production?

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busterkeaton wrote on 4/2/2008, 8:08 AM

You can render HD to uncompressed avi. It's going to be pretty big, though

Pick one of the HD 1080 templates that matches your regular content, for example 60i. Then under video format you can change YUV to Uncompressed if you want uncompressed.

You would need to change your audio too.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/2/2008, 9:28 AM

I would just render it to the Cineform codec that comes with Vegas. This is very high quality and reasonable compression. The templates all have the word "intermediary" in the name. The Sony YUV codec is less compressed at the expense of a much larger file size. Either will do fine.

~jr

Opampman wrote on 4/2/2008, 10:20 AM

Thanks for the advice, all. I'll try both approaches and see which is better. File size is not an issue...quality is.