Adding a special effect using VS11.5

Macadoon · Post by **Macadoon** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:53 pm

HI all,
I'm editing a short film at the mo, shot on a Sony HDRSR1e in 1440x1080 avchd. I'm wanting to add a single muzzle flash for a pistol directly into the avchd clip if possible. Can creat this and add it to the shot in in VS11.5?
I'll be burning the film to a 4.7g disc in avchd. THat said, i can do this effect in other special effects software, but only to mpeg2 hd, hdv and avi. The clip is aobut 5 seconds long ... will any of those other formats look significantly different on screen to that shot and edited in avchd?
Andy M

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:27 pm

It doesn't really matter what format the bits and pieces of your project are. You can have avchd, dv-avi, or mpeg-2 video clips, MP3 or wav audio files, jpeg or bmp photos, etc. At the end of the day these will all be rendered to a particular file type for viewing, whether it be DVD, YouTube, etc.

If you render your effect to a MPEG-2 file it may look significantly different than your AVCHD file because you are comparing SD to HD. If HDV is the only HD option to render to I would go that route, as you will then be comparing HD to HD.