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Posted by Mike Kujbida on 09/11/07 22:06
Shak wrote:
> On Sep 11, 6:21 pm, culture_mind <achai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm about to start compositing various short videos and lots of
>> photographs into a "holiday video" to distribute to friends. This time
>> around, I've chosen to use Sony Vegas (ver 7) solely so as to get a
>> feel for a non-adobe interface for once (for large / complex
>> compositions, the AfterEffects interface eventually becomes the
>> embodiment of "messy-ness" imho).
>>
>> In essence: I cannot decide what project properties to use.
>>
>> In the past, I was working exclusively for creating small compositions
>> for pc playback, and would always use an arbitrary canvas size
>> (320x240, 640x480 etc...), the straight 1:1 pixel ratio and an xvid
>> compression. Most of those small clips were for distribution via a
>> website etc.
>>
>> Now I'm flirting with the idea (the source material can support it) of
>> working on a PAL resolution and aiming for a composition that will be
>> released to DVD. However, I realised that the pixel aspect ratio for
>> PAL (dv) is 1.0926 (after previewing a few test clips exported
>> as .avi).
>>
>> Initially I want to distribute the video as an .avi file (xvid) for
>> playback from a pc but I would also like to have the option to create
>> a DVD.
>>
>> My question:
>>
>> What resolution / settings would you suggest I use? Shall I work on
>> PAL Standard or a custom straight-to-pc format? If I use PAL standard,
>> my composition will include several photographs / stills / text. Will
>> that be scaled properly if I decided to export to .avi with a
>> different pixel aspect ratio?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Angelos
>
> You better use uncompressed AVI with 720x576 pixels resolution from
> this u can export u r clips to nearly every format.(from broadcast to
> mobile clips)
Uncompressed AVI is overkill for something like this.
Set your project properties (File - Properties) to PAL DV (720x576,
25.000 fps) and render to this same template.
Using this as a preset allows you to do a later encode to any format you
want.
The quality loss with this template will be minimal as the encoder in
Vegas is very good.
Don't worry about Pixel; Aspect Ratio as Vegas automatically adjusts any
image to the project properties, whatever they may be.
You didn't say whether you have DVD Architect or not.
If you do, let me know how long the project is and I'll give you a
template for DVD authoring.
Also, I'd recommend downloading all of Edward Troxel's free newsletters.
Click the "Newsletter Archive" link on
http://www.jetdv.com/vegas/forum/index.php
Vol. 1 #8 has an article titled "Creating a Motion Slide Show with
Pan/Crop " that should interest you in adding that little bit of "oomph"
to your slide show.
Mike
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