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June 19th, 2007, 02:13 PM
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Inner Circle
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Atlanta/USA
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Vegas for HDV to SD MPEG2
Hello from Premiere Country - I am pretty much sold to the Adobe Suite but there is something I would like to test in Vegas. I can get access to a PC running Vegas 6.
I am playing around with HDV lately and as you probably all know, the SD MPEG2/DVD export from PremPro is poor. So I was doing the resizing in VirtualDub either by frame serving uncompressed to TMPGEnc or using HuffYUV as intermediate - pretty labor intensive and time consuming process. I am wondering wether I could do the M2T to standard def MPEG2 conversion in Vegas and use the resulting files to finalize my projects in Encore DVD. Is this possible at all? I know Vegas 6 is not the lates version, but I suppose it's new enough to work with HDV files - at this point I am not interested in CineForm, I'm happy with my workflow in PremPro 2.0. And second, does Vegas 6 handle the MPEG2 conversion at all? If yes - and someone has experience with my present workflow, how does it compare to the quality of the Vegas compression? As mentioned above, I dunno notin' 'bout Vegas so please go easy on me... Thanks, |
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June 19th, 2007, 03:27 PM
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Major Player
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Noosa Queensland Australia
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Vegas 6 will do the conversion ok but if you want to do any trimmer work it's pretty clunky.
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June 19th, 2007, 03:27 PM
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Inner Circle
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Most Vegas installs will have DVD Architect, so, Vegas will have access to the excellent Main Concept MPEG2 encoder that is bundled and integrated.
Vegas 6 is fine for what you want to do. Encoding in Vegas rather than DVDA gives more controls of the encoder, including datarates & etc. The resolution downconvert can be done in the same pass as the MPEG2 encode, I recommend selecting "Best" video rendering quality in the custom render settings. ("Good" is fine for all encodes without rez conversions.) If I were doing it, I would start with: Save as type: Main Concept MPEG2 Template: DVD Architect NTSC widescreen video stream On the "custom" dialog: Video Rendering Quality: Best VBR Max: 8,000,000 VBR Avg: 6,000,000 VBR Min: 4,000,000 Then, a separate render of audio: Save as type: Dolby Digital AC-3 Template: Default Template on the "custom" dialog: Dialog Normalization: -31db Line mode profile: none RF mode profile: none See these threads for more info on AC3 encoding: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=47131 http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=87872 See Edward Troxel's excellent newsletters for general MPEG2 encoding info: http://www.jetdv.com |
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