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Posted by Mike Kujbida on 04/13/06 03:52
ushere wrote:
> 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!!
Gotta love smart clients :-)
> have womble - pretty basic but might be a better option for this job -
> it's simple cut to cut (so far).
And from what's been said about it in the past, if it's straight cuts, no
recompression is done, unlike like what Vegas would require.
> off to start chopping firewood - need the exercise after this lazy,
> hazy summer...
Still beats having to shovel snow :-(
Mike
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