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Black and White still shots render horribly
I am a first time user of Sony Vegas and have to create a slide show for an upcoming event. I was given several low quality Black and White photos to scan and use in the presentation. I have all my photos on the timeline and wanted to render them to see what it looks like as it plays. I have rendered this project as multimedia, and as NTSC. Still when I play the MPEG file I rendered in media player, or even Nero the video is so poor quality. When I expand the media player to full screen the photos pixelate like mad. It looks really good when viewed in Vegas in the preview window. How do I take this bad of lemons and make lemonade out of it. The final product will have a few simple transitions and a few audio tracks with it. It needs to be burned to DVD and play in a DVD player to be viewed on a TV. All help is apprecciated.
BTW..the photos looks nice when pulled up in Windows explorer. Little to no pixelation.
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10 Replies
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Ok, I’m a little confused. WHAT is your final destination? That will determine what you need to render to. It’s quite possible you rendered at a very low resolution and then blew it up full screen which WOULD pixelate! Also, if you’re zooming in on the images, make sure you use PAN/CROP for that.
Edward Troxel
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Are your photos really low quality b&w photos or are they newsprint photos (like from a newspaper). If they are newsprint photos – good luck. If they are regular photos, what size did you scan them at? You want to scan them at at least project size and make sure you are scanning them as black and white (or gray scale) not color.
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The photos were scanned in as gray scale at 200 DPI. They are black and white yearbook photos.
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The destination will eventually be on DVD. No HD or surround sound involved. The project properties are NTSC DV, 720 by 480. Audio is stereo. I have a book by Douglas Spotted Eagle that is a great help but I am just stumped on how to get this video (comprised of all stills) to come out half way decent if you view it on either a TV or projected on the wall.
I BeA NOOB
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Since your destination is DVD, you need to render to MPEG2. The DVD Architect presets are a good place to start. Vol 4 #1 and Vol 1 #7 are a couple of newsletter issues that deal with going to DVD. There’s another issue that deals with creating slide shows.
Since you’re using photos, it is always good to do a “Match Output Aspect” on the images, only use Pan/Crop for zooming, and render using “BEST” instead of “Good”.
Edward Troxel
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Unfortunately dpi doesn’t mean anything useful in video parlance. What were the pixel sizes?
Terry Esslinger
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Is there a way I can tell the pixel size? I am not sure how to do that. Thanks.
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I looked at the settings when I was rendering and found that the quality was not set to best. I set it to best and the quality increased immensely. It still have some spots that are poor quality and and can actually see the pixels shifting and the images are displayed on screen. Is that normal?
I BeA NOOB
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To find the pixel size, just click on the image and Vegas will tell you in the status bar at the bottom of the explorer screen.
You can get some “flickering” of photos that have fine lines especially on an interlaced format. This is normal. The typical answer is to use “Reduce Interlace Flicker” and/or add a very slight blur to the image. Thin lines are your enemy.
Edward Troxel
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Take a look at this thread for more information
https://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=119863
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