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Hi - This is my first post so a quick introduction...I have only been trying to learn about video for a couple of weeks and most of that has come from watching YouTube vids about DaVinci Resolve 14.
I have captured what I think is (and should be) 1080i video from a 10 year old Sony HDR-HC3 which uses MinDV tapes.
To do so I used a 1394 Firewire connection and the program HDVSplit.0.77StaticBeta.
My files are in .m2t format which VLC Media will play but Resolve 14 does not seem to recognize.
Since I need to convert the .m2t into something else anyway, which format should I be aiming for? And which program(s) are worth trying to do so?
Anything I create should be optimized for YouTube so I expect that the answer is .mp4 and I have already tried to install Handbrake and I get errors and crashes. But that might have been a 64-bit version. And even though I'm on a 64-bit Win 10 system, I have found many 32-bit programs to be more stable for me. I need to go back to that and try to figure it out again.
But first I wanted to find out if I am in fact capturing what I should from the HDR-HC3 which are .m2t files with the following specs:
VIDEO
Frame Width 1440
Frame Height 1080
Note: This is 4:3 ratio. I have checked an re-checked my camera settings, and confirmed that the program I'm using should capture 16:9, and these files should in fact be viewed at 16:9. But I'm wondering if this capture ratio has to do with the fact that these are 1080i vids rather than 1080p. Also, when viewed with VLC at 16:9, they look right.
Data Rate 25000
Total Bitrate 25384
Frame Rate 29.97 frames/second
AUDIO
Bit Rate 384 kbps
Channels 2 (Stereo)
Audio Sample Rate 48.000
Is this what I should be expecting to capture?
Thanks and sorry for the long post. I'm kind of stuck without understanding better several related topics.
Regards - Ted (aka...BreckSnowPro on YouTube)
I have captured what I think is (and should be) 1080i video from a 10 year old Sony HDR-HC3 which uses MinDV tapes.
To do so I used a 1394 Firewire connection and the program HDVSplit.0.77StaticBeta.
My files are in .m2t format which VLC Media will play but Resolve 14 does not seem to recognize.
Since I need to convert the .m2t into something else anyway, which format should I be aiming for? And which program(s) are worth trying to do so?
Anything I create should be optimized for YouTube so I expect that the answer is .mp4 and I have already tried to install Handbrake and I get errors and crashes. But that might have been a 64-bit version. And even though I'm on a 64-bit Win 10 system, I have found many 32-bit programs to be more stable for me. I need to go back to that and try to figure it out again.
But first I wanted to find out if I am in fact capturing what I should from the HDR-HC3 which are .m2t files with the following specs:
VIDEO
Frame Width 1440
Frame Height 1080
Note: This is 4:3 ratio. I have checked an re-checked my camera settings, and confirmed that the program I'm using should capture 16:9, and these files should in fact be viewed at 16:9. But I'm wondering if this capture ratio has to do with the fact that these are 1080i vids rather than 1080p. Also, when viewed with VLC at 16:9, they look right.
Data Rate 25000
Total Bitrate 25384
Frame Rate 29.97 frames/second
AUDIO
Bit Rate 384 kbps
Channels 2 (Stereo)
Audio Sample Rate 48.000
Is this what I should be expecting to capture?
Thanks and sorry for the long post. I'm kind of stuck without understanding better several related topics.
Regards - Ted (aka...BreckSnowPro on YouTube)