{"id":245,"date":"2013-12-22T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T11:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/?p=245"},"modified":"2013-12-22T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:43:17","slug":"rendered-completely-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"rendered completely useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with the video I shot yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I used Sony Vegas Pro as the video\/audio editor; here&#8217;s what I did first of all:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>migrated the raw footage to the studio laptop<\/li>\n<li>viewed the raw footage in VLC<\/li>\n<li>fired up SVP<\/li>\n<li>created a blank project using a slightly modified template I designed a while ago<\/li>\n<li>imported the raw video to the project<\/li>\n<li>split the raw video to the start and end points I wanted (I didn&#8217;t want to edit the timeline)<\/li>\n<li>created fade in and fade out points for the edited video<\/li>\n<li>created and dropped to the start of the edited video a title graphic<\/li>\n<li>created a new video channel within the project<\/li>\n<li>dropped the &#8216;comment&#8217; graphics in to the new video channel<\/li>\n<li>removed the audio track to the edited video (original track)<\/li>\n<li>imported the chosen musical track in to the project, to where I wanted it to start\/end<\/li>\n<li>saved the project as a .veg file<\/li>\n<li>rendered the project as .wmv format<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I played the finished project back in the master viewer in SVP, it looked fine. The start and end points were good, the fades were good, the text graphics were good.<\/p>\n<p>But when I viewed the file in .wmv format there was nothing to like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the title graphic was bitty; dropped, for no reason, and then came back, and flickered briefly to negative before returning to normal<\/li>\n<li>the video quality was rubbish, not so much HD (which it should have been), but VFPQ (work it out)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, oddly, the audio remained consistent.<\/p>\n<p>I re-rendered the finished project as .wmv three times, and each time the same quality (lack of quality!) issues were apparent.<\/p>\n<p>Then I rendered the project as .mpg and viewed it.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant! No quality issues.<\/p>\n<p>The weird thing is that .wmv presents itself as the default format for rendered video.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not any more, obv. I&#8217;ve changed that.<\/p>\n<p>But the questions running around in my head now are what the hell use is .wmv? And why does rendering a finished project in to .wmv present so many quality issues?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with the video I shot yesterday. I used Sony Vegas Pro as the video\/audio editor; here&#8217;s what I did first of all: migrated the raw footage to the studio laptop viewed the raw footage in VLC fired up SVP created a blank project using a slightly modified \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/?p=245\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}