Photos SD or HD Workflow

DavidPJ wrote on 10/19/2010, 7:35 AM

I've started a photo montage project with Vegas 10 and would like to review my workflow.

Since later versions of Vegas don't seem to need photo downsizing and conversion to png, I won't be doing that. In the past I've included photo montages are part of my 1080 video project. This timethe project is a dedicated photo montage and I'm unsure if I should edit in HDV or NTSC SD.

For my video work I like to create the project in HDV and archive it to tape in HDV. Although my delivered project is in NTSC SD, it's been nice to know I could someday return to those archives and burn a BD if I want.

What are your thoughts on creating the photo project in HDV but delivering it on DVD?

Thanks.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 10/19/2010, 1:35 PM

Edit in HD. There's no reason not to. When you render for SD simply pick the SD template you want. I presume you'll be making widescreen SD? If so you shouldn't have to make any project changes between HD and SD.

DavidPJ wrote on 10/20/2010, 6:32 AM

Thanks. Yes, the final SD DVD delivery is widescreen.

If I edit in HDV, is there a preference for project properties to be 1080i vs 1080p even though I'll be rendering to SD
Widescreen for the DVD?

What about the archive format? I'm used to rendering 1080i because normally I'm editing 1080i video from my camcorder. But since this project is all photos, would I be better off rendering to 1080p for the archive?

Thanks again.

john_dennis wrote on 10/20/2010, 1:03 PM

I'm doing a project from photos and I'm using Sony MXF 35 mbps to edit and save the video. 50 mbps is also possible. I don't own a camera that uses MXF, (or HDV for that matter) so I'm not predisposed to any video hardware based format for archiving. If you began archiving to two hard drives you could pick any codec you think might meet your requirements in the future. It is likely that computer support for the NTFS file system will be around after the last HDV transport has failed. I use 1920x1080-24p. 24p is also an acceptable DVD frame rate.

Chienworks wrote on 10/20/2010, 2:53 PM

My preferred archive format for that project would be to save the .veg file and the photos.

john_dennis wrote on 10/20/2010, 7:40 PM

I understand that would be the purest archive format for stills since they have much higher quality than the first pass of MPEG-2 video. In the case of timelapse, though, there are thousands of photos where nothing happens. I'm looking forward to dumping the stills. I'll probably keep the video.