Video Delivery to the Station

[Billy Griffin]

Kind of a combination of both, John. Obviously, capturing in HDV leaves me with raw .m2t files once captured with Sony Vegas. If capturing with Avid Liquid, the raw files are saved as .m2v files. These files, even though HDV is extremely compressed, are still HUGE! Uploading to my website would take an hour or more. It's possible, but not feasible for "breaking news" type stuff.

So, what I'm doing is capturing these directly off the camera and then trying to determine what format I can "render as" which provides the best quality at the best compression rate.

The H.264 is the "rave" I hear about, but my software will not allow encoding to H.264.
Sony Vegas does not have the option, and while my version of Avid Liquid 7.0 does have the option if saving to a QuickTime movie, if I try to do it, the software just doesn't do it.

Frustrated.

 

[Bart_Comstock]

I do the same as Chris Wilburn does and just cut short clips and upload them via the stations FTP server and now next year will also be streaming with SevereStudios.com as one of their associate chasers but in the end of the day I still find my self driving to the station with my tapes and sitting in their edit bay manually dumping what footage I got off onto one of their tapes. I used to work as a photog at a news station so I know how to use the equipment.... not that it is rocket science or anything.