What is the best way to create a backup of my edited AVCHD videos using an external hard drive without loosing video quality?
Right now (I just started using this program, never edited before), I am creating a video file, but it renders it. I've heard if you render too much you loose quality. Is this true?
Any suggestions? I want to save a copy of my video in case my original edited dvd gets lost or if my computer crashes, but I want to make sure that I am backing it up using the same quality as the original edited video.
Creating a back up with VS 11 Plus
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Thanks sjj1805, I'll read up.
etech6355, wouldnt that degrade the quality of the backup copy? When I started playing around with the trial version, I was capturing from a dvd instead of the actual tape in the camera. The quality of the final video was substantially degraded, I thought the program did this and was very disappointed, until someone pointed to me that it was because I was importing from a dvd.
What I'm doing now to back up my video and it seems to work OK is creating a video file (from the share tab) and storing on my external hard drive. I just wanted to know if there is a better way to back up .
etech6355, wouldnt that degrade the quality of the backup copy? When I started playing around with the trial version, I was capturing from a dvd instead of the actual tape in the camera. The quality of the final video was substantially degraded, I thought the program did this and was very disappointed, until someone pointed to me that it was because I was importing from a dvd.
What I'm doing now to back up my video and it seems to work OK is creating a video file (from the share tab) and storing on my external hard drive. I just wanted to know if there is a better way to back up .
There's a few ways to backup your editied files, what your doing is about the same as long as they aren't being re-encoded in the burning module.
If your following Steve's tutorials then you go into the burning module from an empty timeline OR remove the project file from the burning modules timeline, then insert the dvd compliant mpeg2 file that you had rendered from the timeline into the burning module. Because it's compliant it will not be re-encoded again.
When you import a dvd into VS it's only copying the contents from the dvd back to your harddisk, it's only a copy. The reason you import a dvd is so the mpeg2 file(s) are properly extracted from their VOB containers.
It's really a copy though.
If or when you want to make an AVCHD disk to playback your videos in High Definition on a Blu-Ray Disc Player then you may want to do this a little different. I've found that when creating an avchd disk that the video comes out better letting VS render the edited avchd videos in the burning module and not export to a new avchd video file first. At least that's been my experience working with avchd in VS11+.
Also in the burning module when creating avchd disks you must set the Project Settings correctly (to match your source avc/h264 videos properties)
If your following Steve's tutorials then you go into the burning module from an empty timeline OR remove the project file from the burning modules timeline, then insert the dvd compliant mpeg2 file that you had rendered from the timeline into the burning module. Because it's compliant it will not be re-encoded again.
When you import a dvd into VS it's only copying the contents from the dvd back to your harddisk, it's only a copy. The reason you import a dvd is so the mpeg2 file(s) are properly extracted from their VOB containers.
It's really a copy though.
If or when you want to make an AVCHD disk to playback your videos in High Definition on a Blu-Ray Disc Player then you may want to do this a little different. I've found that when creating an avchd disk that the video comes out better letting VS render the edited avchd videos in the burning module and not export to a new avchd video file first. At least that's been my experience working with avchd in VS11+.
Also in the burning module when creating avchd disks you must set the Project Settings correctly (to match your source avc/h264 videos properties)
I'm very interested in this quote but I dont quite understand it. Pardon my ignorance, this is my first time editing videos. When you say burning module, is that the timeline or when you click create disk and see the burn icon? Could you explain it a bit moreI've found that when creating an avchd disk that the video comes out better letting VS render the edited avchd videos in the burning module and not export to a new avchd video file first. At least that's been my experience working with avchd in VS11+.
Also in the burning module when creating avchd disks you must set the Project Settings correctly (to match your source avc/h264 videos properties)
Many many thanks.It takes time to learn all the in's & out's of a computer program.
If you making standard dvd's then you can use the standard method. But since you did purchase a High Def cam eventually you will want to make some High Def disks.
So there is a difference, depending on how you edited your original avc/h264 videos whether you are creating a standard dvd or a high definition disk such as an AVCHD disk (which playback in most all Blu-Ray Disk Players).
An AVCHD disk is a High Definition disk that contains AVC/H264 video burnt to a standard dvd, so they contain true High Definition Videos, the same format as your avchd cam records in.
If you making standard dvd's then exporting from the timeline like your doing works because your exporting standard definition mpeg2 video.
If you making standard dvd's then you can use the standard method. But since you did purchase a High Def cam eventually you will want to make some High Def disks.
So there is a difference, depending on how you edited your original avc/h264 videos whether you are creating a standard dvd or a high definition disk such as an AVCHD disk (which playback in most all Blu-Ray Disk Players).
An AVCHD disk is a High Definition disk that contains AVC/H264 video burnt to a standard dvd, so they contain true High Definition Videos, the same format as your avchd cam records in.
If you making standard dvd's then exporting from the timeline like your doing works because your exporting standard definition mpeg2 video.
The timeline is like one program and the burning module is like another program, except they are linked together. Both the timeline and the burning module have separate preferences & working folders. So you should assign the correct parameters in both the timeline & burning module. You can encode your videos before going into the burning module or let the burning module encode the videos.When you say burning module, is that the timeline or when you click create disk and see the burn icon? Could you explain it a bit more