I'm currently running VS 10 on my laptop with DV clips captured from Canon ZR700. I'm strongly considering getting an HDV camcorder, the Canon HV20 has gotten great reviews. My laptop specs: Dell Inspiron 6000, Intel Centrino, Pentium M 1.73GHz, 2GB RAM, 80GB ATA 7200RPM drive. I'll need to upgrade to vs 11+. Will this laptop, if loaded with VS 11+ be able to capture, do minimal edits, and output to tape a Hi Def video project? Minimal edits include opening/closing titles, HDV file cuts/trims, occasional title overlays and tranisitions, and replace of existing audio with music only tracks. I'm particularly interested in outputting the HDV project back to tape in the HV20 camcorder and would hope to smart render.
On a side note, I've downloaded the trial version of VS11+. I also dowloaded two short HV20 clips (.m2t). I've been able to drop the small clips into the trial version project. But when I output to tape (HDV camcorder recording) it re-renders the whole project, even though I've made no edits. After talking with tech support, I was told I needed an updated patch and/or the HD power pack, which of course can't be installed on a trial version.
I'm sorry for this long post, but in summary, will HDV capturing, minimal editing, and smart render output to tape (all in HD) be possible with VS11+ on my existing laptop with (hopefully) a Canon HV20 HDV camcorder.
Thanks in advance.
VS 11+ and HDV clips on a laptop????
Moderator: Ken Berry
I haven't been able to smartrender to tape using any program.
On my systems it worked out where the complete stream had to be re-constructed to meet the strict transport stream spec's required for the tape.
Some programs will smart-render for the tape output. Eventually though you will see glitches here and there, pauses & jumps. At least that was my case.
The export to tape may not fail, but the proper video recorded on the tape will fail.It takes time to find where the tape has these glitches since you have to manually watch it for an hour.
Maybe you will have better luck with it than I did. I also use other programs to write HDV back to tape and they all produce the same results with smartrender enabled.
On my systems it worked out where the complete stream had to be re-constructed to meet the strict transport stream spec's required for the tape.
Some programs will smart-render for the tape output. Eventually though you will see glitches here and there, pauses & jumps. At least that was my case.
The export to tape may not fail, but the proper video recorded on the tape will fail.It takes time to find where the tape has these glitches since you have to manually watch it for an hour.
Maybe you will have better luck with it than I did. I also use other programs to write HDV back to tape and they all produce the same results with smartrender enabled.