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[Pavlena]

Help please.

My husband and I shot video of a wedding using two separate Sony Camcorders one HD and the other a Sony DCR-DVD camcorder.

I thought if I converted both caputured files to MPEG 2 I could bring them back into VideoWave and work with them and create my story by editing and adding music files.  When I did a test I found that the footage I had taken which is the majority of the film in my HD camera was not as good.  Am I asking the impossible.  I understand that the footage taken with the SD camcorder would not be of as high quality, but I would have hoped the rest of the film would.  So want to use the footage from both cameras if possible.
Can anybody assist with this.

[sknis]

Pavlena, on 11 July 2011 - 07:51 AM, said:

Help please.

My husband and I shot video of a wedding using two separate Sony Camcorders one HD and the other a Sony DCR-DVD camcorder.

I thought if I converted both caputured files to MPEG 2 I could bring them back into VideoWave and work with them and create my story by editing and adding music files.  When I did a test I found that the footage I had taken which is the majority of the film in my HD camera was not as good.  Am I asking the impossible.  I understand that the footage taken with the SD camcorder would not be of as high quality, but I would have hoped the rest of the film would.  So want to use the footage from both cameras if possible.
Can anybody assist with this.

There is no HD DVD any more.  It lost the battle.

You have 3 choices standard DVD, AVCHD (about 40 minutes of video) or blu-ray.  The last two can only be played on a blu-ray player.

Decide and then come back to tell us what you want to do.

[Jim_Hardin]

Did you output in VideoWave?

What were your Project Settings?

What were your Output Settings?

What was it about the Sony HD that you didn't think looked as good???

[sknis]

Yes, you can mix standard definition videos and high definition videos in Video Wave on the same timeline.  You can export the video to a "mpg2 for DVD best quality"   to make a standard definition file.  It will look bad switching from standard definition to high definition viadeo files  I just tried it.

Have you thought about using an overlay sort of a PIP to keep either the HD video or the standard definition video is a smaller window.  That may be less distracting.

[Pavlena]

sknis, on 11 July 2011 - 08:01 AM, said:

There is no HD DVD any more.  It lost the battle.

You have 3 choices standard DVD, AVCHD (about 40 minutes of video) or blu-ray.  The last two can only be played on a blu-ray player.

Decide and then come back to tell us what you want to do.

Sorry I meant standard DVD.  What I meant was that the one camcorder does not have the AVCHD quality of record and the other camcorder does have the AVCHD record facility.

I imported both files seperately into videowave and converted to MPEG 2.  I then brought them back into Videowave and started cutting and editing and mixing to create the story.  Then when I convert to DVD I do it to the highest quality.  

It just felt that when I combined the two the SD video footage impared the quality of the video footage that was in HD.  Maybe it was me being over critical.

Because recording to AVCHD DVD takes so long.  I record an ordinary DVD first to ensure that all the editing is correct. In my new camcorder this is always very crisp and clear.

Would I see a difference if I burned the final Video to AVCHD DVD.  Sorry if I have gone on, but this is my only way to explain.

Any further assistance on ensuring the maximum quality on the final presentation of the DVD on screen would be appreciated.

Pavlena

[Pavlena]

sknis, on 11 July 2011 - 02:57 PM, said:

Yes, you can mix standard definition videos and high definition videos in Video Wave on the same timeline.  You can export the video to a "mpg2 for DVD best quality"   to make a standard definition file.  It will look bad switching from standard definition to high definition viadeo files  I just tried it.

Have you thought about using an overlay sort of a PIP to keep either the HD video or the standard definition video is a smaller window.  That may be less distracting.

That is a thought.  I will try that. Thanks.

[Pavlena]

Yes that is a thought I will have a go.

Thanks for that.

[sknis]

You said :"I imported both files seperately into videowave and converted to MPEG 2."

Don't just add them and edit them and then export them.  There is no need to encode and then reencode and then ... you get the idea.

[Pavlena]

sknis, on 12 July 2011 - 08:27 AM, said:

You said :"I imported both files seperately into videowave and converted to MPEG 2."

Don't just add them and edit them and then export them.  There is no need to encode and then reencode and then ... you get the idea.

Yes I get you. Will bear that in mind.  The reason I did that was to ensure both files were compatible when I joined them together to edit.

Now can you answer me this one.  To make things more complicated.  I filmed the HD movie in 16.9.  I have with Roxio's assistance managed to convert to 4.3 and change the Aspect ratio to fill the screen before encoding to MPEG 2.  Does this impair the quality of the HD visual on the screen.  Could this be my problem with quality as the movie filed in SD was filmed in 4.3 and automatically fills the screen.

Your continued support will be of great assistance.

Pavlena