Best output format?

[KOBRA76]

Hi,i have vs pro x4,what is the best and fast rendernig format for output a file ?
and in what format i get clean transisions betwin 2 scenes,becouse iget a "blip" not a smoth transission,tnx

[DVDDoug]

What's your original format?

What output format do you want/need? Are you going to play the files on your computer, or do you need to make a DVD, Blu-Ray, upload to YouTube, etc.? Do you have any file size requirements?

If you've got HD, MPEG-2 at the same resolution as the original, and a high bitrate should give you the best results.

With standard definition, AVI/DV is usually the best. (There are many AVI formats, DV is the least compressed.)

and in what format i get clean transisions betwin 2 scenes,becouse iget a "blip" not a smoth transission,tnx

That might depend on your input format. If you get bad results with high quality output formats, try converting to a better format before editing.

[KOBRA76]

My original format is m2st avchd,sony hdr cx115,and i want to play the file in my lcd with disc on key as hd file.
And i want it for burn to dvd.

[Ken Berry]

If your HDTV is new, then maybe it is a model which can play AVCHD direct from a USB key drive, as you want. So therefore you simply choose Share > Create Video File > Same As First Clip. Otherwise, you would need either a Blu-Ray player with USB input or some other sort of multimedia player connected to your HDTV which can accept AVCHD, though just about all of them can.

For a standard definition DVD, the video is going to have to be downconverted to DVD-compatible mpeg-2 (Share > Create Video File > DVD). The drop-off in quality will be significant, however.

But if you are talking about an AVCHD hybrid disc burned as a Blu-Ray disc but on a DVD blank disc, then again you simply use the original AVCHD. Note, however, that the highest quality setting for such a disc is a bitrate of 18 Mbps, and at that rate, you will only fit around 20 minutes of video on a single layer DVD. And the discs can only be played on a Blu-Ray player rated to play such discs. Most -- though not all -- can these days.

AS for the transition blip, you are just about the first person I recall reporting this with X4, though at least one other user has a similar problem after inserting a title. My advice is to switch off SmartRender for any rendering of HD video. If you maintain the original quality settings, then a single re-render is unlikely to produce any drop-off in quality which can be detected by the human eye.

[KOBRA76]

TNX