Editing HDV

[Nathan M]

Hi there i currently bought myself the hdr-z1u and i started editing come stuff in vegas 6.0 and my playback is really slow and sketchy. I have a 3.00 GHz HP with .99 GB of ram. Is this sufficient enough to be able to edit hdv.

Thanx in advance

 

[NO CA$H]

Make sure you turn the quality up in the preview screen.

 

[rjk2000]

I have a similar set-up. Yes, it will be jittery on your system unless you watch it in Draft mode (and most likely Preview mode). I recommend that you use Gearshift or Cineform in conjunction with Vegas -- the footage plays well with those.

 

[Norm Sanders]

I would imagine you'd do better with 2GB of RAM for HDV.

 

[Nathan M]

thanks for comments..but i have tried previewing it in draft mode and all of those modes and still pretty sketch. Do u think playing it on an external monitor would help?

 

[Norm Sanders]

No.

 

[pastywhiteboy]

Try Cineform Connect. Takes up about twice as much space and adds some transcode time, but makes editing oh so much smoother and holds up far better than native mpeg-2 from generation to generation. You can try a free demo from Cineform's website.

You can also render your original files to DV (or some other compressed AVI codec) and use those as the intermediary editing files - just replace them with the original M2T's when your done editing then you're set to render.

-pastywhiteboy