Chuck Harrel
March 1st, 2009, 02:20 PM
I have been searching the forums for information on how to edit AVCHD with a older computer so it will not be so choppy during the editing process. I am currently editing with Vegas MS Platinum 9.0
I am not in a position to upgrade my HW so that option is out for at least 6-12 months. I also have downloaded trials of Neo Scene and AVCHD Upshift and played around with those conversion apps. I don't really want to spend any extra $ right now on these either since I do plan to upgrade the HW later and only will create SD DVD during this period.
I would like to know the disadvantages to rendering out a MPEG-2 file using the MainConcept encoder with Vegas and then using this file to edit and create the final project. I do understand it will have more loss than the other two apps above but I only plan to create videos in SD in the short term.
If I render out a several different files in MPEG2 and take scenes from all the files and construct a project then render & save the new project to a DVD, am I creating additional loss with the second rendor to DVD?
I would like to option to create HD version of the projects at a later date when I get a BR burner but I want to minimize the rendor loss. Is there another file type (HDV etc) which Vegas can rendor and then edit smoothly but is not as lossy as MPEG2.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Chuck
I am not in a position to upgrade my HW so that option is out for at least 6-12 months. I also have downloaded trials of Neo Scene and AVCHD Upshift and played around with those conversion apps. I don't really want to spend any extra $ right now on these either since I do plan to upgrade the HW later and only will create SD DVD during this period.
I would like to know the disadvantages to rendering out a MPEG-2 file using the MainConcept encoder with Vegas and then using this file to edit and create the final project. I do understand it will have more loss than the other two apps above but I only plan to create videos in SD in the short term.
If I render out a several different files in MPEG2 and take scenes from all the files and construct a project then render & save the new project to a DVD, am I creating additional loss with the second rendor to DVD?
I would like to option to create HD version of the projects at a later date when I get a BR burner but I want to minimize the rendor loss. Is there another file type (HDV etc) which Vegas can rendor and then edit smoothly but is not as lossy as MPEG2.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Chuck