andrew_carter said:A couple of technical questions:
- How are you compressing these videos? The quality is fantastic for
such a small file size. I watched the Quicktime version. What are you
editing the videos with? I use Vegas Movie Studio 4.0 but am getting
really frustrated because it can't seem to save at 16:9...it resorts to
letterboxing in 4:3. I've asked the technical help people (by email)
about it but only got a proposed solution that didn't work...then
despite inviting me to reply if it didn't work, they didn't respond to
my reply. 🙁 I've been filming exclusively in 16:9 for about two years
now and love it (I'm sure you agree it frames everything so nicely!),
but I can't get a 16:9 result without cropping it with VirtualDub.
- What sort of camera are you using? I love the image quality. I
film with a standard MiniDV and I dont think I get as nice detail in
mine...even uncompressed.
Here's my current setup....
Sony TRV38 MiniDV camera. It's a single CCD camera and a couple of
years old, but the quality seems pretty good on it. For editing I use
Premiere Pro, which is decent enough for most editing tasks.
I always capture footage onto the computer in DVAVI format and keep it
in that format throughout the editing process. Once the video is done
I save the entire video as a DVAVI file. I don't use Premiere to do
the conversions to other formats because I've found it generally
doesn't do as good a job as the tools that are designed specifically
for those formats, and sometimes it just plain doesn't work at all.
To convert the DVAVI file to wmv I use Windows Media Encoder 9, which I
believe is freely available from Microsoft. For mov I export the DVAVI
file from Quicktime Pro 7, using the new H.264 codec.
I can't help you with your issues with Vegas, since I've never used it,
but I hope you figure something out. Does it letterbox regardless of
what format you save to? If it saves to DVAVI fine you could try and
use another tool to do the conversion to other formats.
J
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