Rendering Canon HV30 footage in Vegas Pro - Help!!!...
orbitrob
23 Jun 2008 15:54
Hello everyone,
I’ve just recently purchased and have begun shooting HDV footage with a beautiful Canon HV-30 - I love this thing! :0) I understand the camera and enjoy shooting with it. The tricky part (I’m finding) is understanding all the settings that Vegas Pro 8.0 offers, to capture and render footage!
My apologies for posting such an intense thread (and if I’m asking some ‘newbie’ type questions) but I really want to make sure that I nail every detail (before I spend days rendering and uploading gigabytes of footage)…
These are my current settings in Vegas (with some of my own notes after an *asterisk):
For PROJECT PROPERTIES:
Template: HD 1080-60i (1920x1080, 29.970 fps)
Width: 1,920 Height: 1,080
Field Order: Upper field first *I’ve read that this is the right order for HDV footage.
Pixel aspect ratio: 1.0000 (Square) ….*I also see that 1.3333 (HDV) is offered. (I’m not sure what to choose – my instinct is that my footage should remain at 1.0000 as this is closer to the ‘native setting’ of the source footage?)
Output rotation: 0 degrees
Frame rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
Pixel format: 32 bit floating point *I selected this after reading that 32 bit offers smoother gradients than the 8 bit option, though it requires more processing power – please correct me (and my settings) if I’m wrong!
Compositing Gamma: 1.000 (Linear) …*or should I have the “2.222 (video)” option selected?
Full resolution rendering quality: Best
Motion blur type: Gaussian
De-interlace method: Interpolate fields *Options offered are None / Blend and Interpolate fields. I have selected Interpolate fields because I have read that ‘interpolation is better than blending as its ‘a more advanced algorithm’...though I wonder if I shouldn’t have ‘None’ selected – as, again wouldn’t this be keeping the HV30’s interlaced source footage closer to its ‘native format’?
And for RENDERING my settings are:
Video rendering quality: Best
Frame size: High Definition (1920 x 1080)
Frame rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
Field Order: Upper field first
Pixel Aspect ratio: 1.000
Video format: Motion jpeg B
Compressed Depth: 24 bpp color
Quality: 95%
Can anyone see any settings that need fixing? Any help is appreciated.
Still somewhat puzzled,
Rob (orbitrob)
I’ve just recently purchased and have begun shooting HDV footage with a beautiful Canon HV-30 - I love this thing! :0) I understand the camera and enjoy shooting with it. The tricky part (I’m finding) is understanding all the settings that Vegas Pro 8.0 offers, to capture and render footage!
My apologies for posting such an intense thread (and if I’m asking some ‘newbie’ type questions) but I really want to make sure that I nail every detail (before I spend days rendering and uploading gigabytes of footage)…
These are my current settings in Vegas (with some of my own notes after an *asterisk):
For PROJECT PROPERTIES:
Template: HD 1080-60i (1920x1080, 29.970 fps)
Width: 1,920 Height: 1,080
Field Order: Upper field first *I’ve read that this is the right order for HDV footage.
Pixel aspect ratio: 1.0000 (Square) ….*I also see that 1.3333 (HDV) is offered. (I’m not sure what to choose – my instinct is that my footage should remain at 1.0000 as this is closer to the ‘native setting’ of the source footage?)
Output rotation: 0 degrees
Frame rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
Pixel format: 32 bit floating point *I selected this after reading that 32 bit offers smoother gradients than the 8 bit option, though it requires more processing power – please correct me (and my settings) if I’m wrong!
Compositing Gamma: 1.000 (Linear) …*or should I have the “2.222 (video)” option selected?
Full resolution rendering quality: Best
Motion blur type: Gaussian
De-interlace method: Interpolate fields *Options offered are None / Blend and Interpolate fields. I have selected Interpolate fields because I have read that ‘interpolation is better than blending as its ‘a more advanced algorithm’...though I wonder if I shouldn’t have ‘None’ selected – as, again wouldn’t this be keeping the HV30’s interlaced source footage closer to its ‘native format’?
And for RENDERING my settings are:
Video rendering quality: Best
Frame size: High Definition (1920 x 1080)
Frame rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
Field Order: Upper field first
Pixel Aspect ratio: 1.000
Video format: Motion jpeg B
Compressed Depth: 24 bpp color
Quality: 95%
Can anyone see any settings that need fixing? Any help is appreciated.
Still somewhat puzzled,
Rob (orbitrob)