Lossless Rendering?

grob wrote on 6/21/2011, 11:13 PM
I wish to render my movie in the highest quality, without losing any video quality. It's not HD, just regular mini-DV, but the movie may need further processing in other applications and I need to ensure I have not lost anything.

Version 11 has so many options it is now far too confusing to determine a simple high quality, lossless rendering.

Can anyone help?


BTW - Trying to render using .mov format doesn't work - my file renders in 1 sec "Completed!" but of course doesn't.

Thanks,
Geoff


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Marton wrote on 6/21/2011, 11:23 PM
Hi
Render as panel, search video for windows avi, select
ntsc dv for example, and press the customize template button.
Here you can change the video format to uncompressed.
I think you dont have to change the other settings, if your project
is ntsc dv.
grob wrote on 6/21/2011, 11:29 PM
OK thanks Marton. I am working on a Mac (Windows running in VMWare), so I am hoping to avoid AVI files. Also working in PAL. Sadly .MOV doesn't work.

Is there a mp4 render that will keep my video at highest quality?

Thanks,
Geoff
musicvid10 wrote on 6/22/2011, 12:08 AM
Highest quality will occur when you smart-render to your native format, in this case DV-AVI in its original aspect.

This is a bit-for-bit transfer and no losses occur. I don't believe you will be able to smart-render to DV-MOV.

No further improvement can be accomplished by rendering uncompressed, or at a higher bitrate, resolution, or chroma subsampling than your source.

You will be sacrificing playability and disc space, nothing more. One of my grandfather's favorite sayings was, "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear."

MSmart wrote on 6/22/2011, 12:21 AM
What he said.

If you're starting with DV-AVI files from your MiniDV video and don't want to loose anything, then render to Video for Windows (which is DV-AVI).
Eugenia wrote on 6/22/2011, 1:21 AM
If you need MOV files for the Mac, install the freeware intermediate codec Avid DNxHD. Install it both on your OSX and Windows. Export via the Custom MOV button.
Marton wrote on 6/22/2011, 1:23 AM
Do you have the full Quicktime installed, and still doesn't work render
to uncompressed mov? Interesting. Sorry, i never used mov, honestly i hate it (on pc at least).
On MAC you cannot work with DV AVI files?
camper wrote on 6/22/2011, 10:26 PM
Sure would be nice if there were a rendering option: render in the original format.
musicvid10 wrote on 6/22/2011, 10:39 PM
There is!

Match your Project Properties to your media using the "Match Media Settings" icon.
Then go to AVI render, and use the template with the "=" sign by it.
It's that simple.
shooter71 wrote on 7/7/2011, 10:34 AM
Is the "match media settings" icon wihin VMS 9.0 HD or is that a feature on a later version? i don't seem to find that button within v9.0c build 30
musicvid10 wrote on 7/7/2011, 10:49 AM
It's in