OK .. After so many thoughts about how to work with AVCHD - and if I would buy a new PC and Vegas 9 - or use Gearshift ... or Upshift or even AVS video converter.
I decided I want to do the following
- take ALL on my clips from a particular day (since each time I click the record button it is a new file)
- bring them into either Studio or PRO9
- put them all on the time line in order (do you sometimes bring in a lot of clips and the first and last clips for some reason are out of order?)
-make sure I do NOT have any automatic overlap crossfade
- "Save the clips as a single mpeg2"
- Use those Mpeg files as my basis for doing work - yes I will admit I am not a pro and the extra effort for the extra fidelity is not noticable on what I am doing today
-hold onto my .mts etc files for another day when (I have Blue Ray or other way that the extra quality would matter and I have a PC where I can work with them as easily as I can SD)
Now comes my Question. - I am using the "standard default" format for my Canon HF10 recording. And I assume I want fairly standard NTSC MPEG2 as my result.
- What should be the format of my project?
-What should be the format of my output?
-How should I deal with the fact that my source is 16*9 - just make the result 16*9 (add bars?)
Let me know if you have any other ideas..
-including if I should be using a different default on my camera I don't really understand the different P's and I's and wrappers etc.
- Any reason to think Upshift would be better than Vegas ? (time quality etc.) - does Upshift allow many files to merge into one.
Thanks
Allen
I decided I want to do the following
- take ALL on my clips from a particular day (since each time I click the record button it is a new file)
- bring them into either Studio or PRO9
- put them all on the time line in order (do you sometimes bring in a lot of clips and the first and last clips for some reason are out of order?)
-make sure I do NOT have any automatic overlap crossfade
- "Save the clips as a single mpeg2"
- Use those Mpeg files as my basis for doing work - yes I will admit I am not a pro and the extra effort for the extra fidelity is not noticable on what I am doing today
-hold onto my .mts etc files for another day when (I have Blue Ray or other way that the extra quality would matter and I have a PC where I can work with them as easily as I can SD)
Now comes my Question. - I am using the "standard default" format for my Canon HF10 recording. And I assume I want fairly standard NTSC MPEG2 as my result.
- What should be the format of my project?
-What should be the format of my output?
-How should I deal with the fact that my source is 16*9 - just make the result 16*9 (add bars?)
Let me know if you have any other ideas..
-including if I should be using a different default on my camera I don't really understand the different P's and I's and wrappers etc.
- Any reason to think Upshift would be better than Vegas ? (time quality etc.) - does Upshift allow many files to merge into one.
Thanks
Allen