GH13 GH1 Editing

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GH1Guy

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Ok, I'm using a GH13 and 14-42mm lens. Sorry for the newbie question.

I am using the basic "safe" hack. I believe its a cross between B and C settings.

Did a quick shoot of volleyball yesterday in AVCHD 720p/60fps mode (SHD).

For an 8GB card, got around 28 minutes of footage.

My question is when using Sony Vegas to render to avi format, it says the completed file will be 85GB (or something like that). Obviously that file is too big for me.

I just want something that I can put on a dual layer DVD-R and give to friends but still retain the high quality video.

But my recordings were broken up into 34 small mts files. Just copying/pasting the 34 mts files onto DVD would work but my friend would have to click and play each 34 files individually.

How do I get it so it plays all in order in one file. It does play in order when I insert my SDHC card into my PS3. Is there a "complete" file stored on the SDHC card?

Secondly, how can I render so I retain quality files but keep it reasonably sized (8GB or so)?

Thanks
 
Simplest procedure in Vegas:

- Open your mts files in Vegas (file / import / media)
- Drag the individual shots in the order you prefer onto the timeline
- Render as DVD (file / render as / template: DVD PAL or NTSC (depending on where the DVDs are to be shown). A three minute mpeg file is approx. 150,000 KB.
- Write to a rewritable DVD using an authoring program (although I'm certain you can also do this in Vegas)

I get excellent results even on a 50" screen (PAL).

Hope this helps. Good luck.
 
Thanks. But how is the quality of this? I'm guessing it won't be 720p anymore?

Does the image end up looking "muddy"?
 
Blu-ray burners are very cheap and so are players. Why mess around trying to put high def on a disc that wasn't meant to play it? Sure, sure, to give to people who don't have blu-ray, make a DVD, but for the master, encode, author, and burn at the native resolution and frame rate you shot at for the best quality. I find the Vegas renders nearly indistinguishable from the originals.
 
GH1Guy said:
Thanks. But how is the quality of this? I'm guessing it won't be 720p anymore?

Does the image end up looking "muddy"?
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In PAL-land, DVD resolution is 720 x 576 (480 for NTSC). As far as I know, DVDs are interlaced, not progressive. On a PC screen, the results do in fact look muddy (especially compared to, say, MP4). But on a TV screen I can detect very little difference to a high-quality commercial DVD. Films originally shot in FHD (with the hack) do look appreciably better than SD.

But, as Blackout points out, rendering to Blue-Ray is no doubt the best quality option.
 
But when rendering to avi I get an output file of 80+ GBs. That is huge for a 28 min clip. Not sure if I am doing something wrong here.
 
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