Recording HDV back to the cassette

Gisela Richter · Post by **Gisela Richter** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:55 pm

With earlier versions of V.S. you could record your edited VSP project straight back to the cassette from the time line.
That was the good old days.
As from version 10, for unexplained reasons, you have to make a video file first. With HD footage this becomes tedious and annoying. You click on "HDV recording" and V.S. immediately starts "rendering" your HDV project or file. Why? It is already HDV, straight from the camcorder, and you only want to put it back there. For half an hour of HDV footage this "rendering" takes 5 hours. The resulting file has to be recorded back to the cassette immediately. If you try to do it later you get the message "
V.S. cannot edit this file, do you want to pre-process it?" But you don't want to edit it, you only want to put it back...
Can anyone explain what's going on and why the interminable rendering is necessary?

tyamada · Post by **tyamada** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 7:31 pm

Thats the problem with VS-10, you can only render the file and send it back to the camera once. If by chance you have Media Studio Pro 8 you can select the HDV file and send it back to tape.

I have no idea why Ulead chose to do it that way in Video Studio, but its a real pain.

I usually do my HDV in MSP8 rather than Video Studio.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:27 pm

With HDV, I suspect it is because when you 'capture' and edit the HDV from your capture, it is converted to program stream mpeg-2 from its original transport stream format. To go back to the camera, the edited project has to be converted back to transport stream format... But I agree, it's a pain. And even more of a pain for Canon HDV owners since both VS11/11.5+ and 12 cannot export to camera successfully if it is a Canon. Only VS10+ can do so with a patch brought out at the time specifically to correct that bug. But for some reason Corel never carried that programming over into the new versions of VS.

Gisela Richter · Post by **Gisela Richter** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:38 am

[quote="Ken Berry"]With HDV, I suspect it is because when you 'capture' and edit the HDV from your capture, it is converted to program stream mpeg-2 from its original transport stream format.

Thanks Kenn for the explanation. And for the information about later versions of V.S. I recently downloaded a trial version of VS 12. I could't use it because I immediately got the message that my "video capture pilot" was not up to date, and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. I noticed it looks exactly the same as VS 10+, esthetically a little more pleasing and probably with more nick-nacks, but as a Canon user I'll have to stick to VS 10+ anyway.