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Posted by ushere on 04/13/06 00:51
Mike Kujbida wrote:
> ushere wrote:
>> Mike Kujbida wrote:
>>> ushere wrote:
>>>> have a client dvd disc coming from one of these cameras. anyone know
>>>> what format it records in and whether it's importable to vegas 6?
>>>>
>>>> tia
>>>>
>>>> leslie
>>>
>>> You lucky guy you. Now you get to experience the "joy" of the
>>> miniDVD format.
>>> Or as most of us call it, the editing format from hell :-)
>>> According to the specs on the Pansonic site at
>>> http://tinyurl.com/kj52e, it can use DVD-RAM, DVD -R or DVD -RW at
>>> recording speeds of XP, SP or LP. XP: 9 Mbps / VBR, SP:5 Mbps / VBR,
>>> LP: 2.5 Mbps / VBR. Audio is AC3.
>>> If the client used DVD-RAM and your computer's DVD drive can handle
>>> it, you're OK. If your drive can't handle it, you'd better hope
>>> they used either of the DVD- formats - and remembered to finalize
>>> it!!
>>> As long as you have at least Vegas 6.0c, you're all set as Sony
>>> finally added the feature to handle this media natively (video & AC3
>>> audio). It's under File - Import - DVD Camcorder Disc. Vegas 6.0d
>>> added scene detection so start/stops were recognized (as opposed to
>>> one long file).
>>> Have fun editing :-(
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> (who's enjoying spring at long last!!)
>>>
>> and i'm thinking it's time we started cutting some firewood....
>>
>> haven't got the disk yet, it's in the post. hopefully they finalised
>> it, but if not, what are my options?
>>
>> have dvd-ram drives - i actually use a couple of dvd ram disks as temp
>> backups for docs and the like. simple drag and drop is quite useful to
>> dvd....
>>
>> enjoy your spring, cause you'll get winter somewhere down the track
>> ;-P
>>
>> leslie
>
>
> If the disk wasn't finalized, I think you're SOL as you'd probably need the
> original camcorder to do that. I stand to be corrected in anyone else knows
> better though.
> Good thing you have a dvd-ram drive. It just might come in handy for this
> project :-)
> Keep in mind that, because it's already in mpeg-2 format, you won't be
> getting frame accurate editing and any recompressing will affect the
> quality. Stick to a high bitrate for a new encode and it shouldn't be too
> bad.
> This might be a time to look into something like Womble or Video ReDo which
> are supposed to be better at this than Vegas.
> I'm loving spring so far. Just not looking forward to the 30°+ and 100%
> humidity days of summer :-(
>
> Mike
>
have to wait and see - apparently they're having problems getting the
disc out of the camera!!
have womble - pretty basic but might be a better option for this job -
it's simple cut to cut (so far).
off to start chopping firewood - need the exercise after this lazy, hazy
summer...
leslie
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