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  Flash animations and Vegas Pro

  Posted by Colin Anderson on March 18, 2011 at 8:56 pm

  Hi,

  I’m working on this project that combines avchd 1920×1080@60i video footage and map routing animations created in Adobe CS5 at 29.970fps. (30fps)

  Because Vegas doesn’t support them fully (scripts and such…), I had to convert them. My first attempt was to convert the swf files into AVI. Unfortunately, the resulting AVI files were not supported by Vegas Pro. So I then converted the AVI files in AVCHD (.ts) files which Vegas supported. Despite using the highest quality settings, two conversions plus the rendering degraded the quality of the animations too much to my liking.

  So I then opted to convert the SWF files into JPEG image sequences and import them into Vegas. This yelded the best looking results in terms of image clarity.

  The problem I’m trying to rectify now is this: Most of the animations have map scrolling, or panning if you will. And I don’t mean through Vegas track motion. I mean the animation itself consists of map scrolling. Those image sequences play and look fine in the preview, but once Vegas renders them (in the Blu-Ray 1920×1080@60i template, or any template for that matter), it flickers. This only happens when map scrolling is involved. In the instances where the map is static, it doesn’t flicker. This issue was also visible on the AVCHD versions of the animations as well once rendered by Vegas, even if I used the reduce flickering option in the file properties.

  Does this sound familiar to anyone and is there anything I can do to fix this?

  Thank you.

  Colin Anderson replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  March 19, 2011 at 12:47 am

  [Colin Anderson] “Does this sound familiar to anyone and is there anything I can do to fix this? “

  This is caused by horizontal lines in the image being thinner than a single field in the 60i frame. The fix is to not use thin lines or to use a bit of vertical blur to make the lines less sharp. You could also render to 24p but this will only work on a progressive TV. Interlaced TV’s will still have this problem.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Colin Anderson

  July 28, 2011 at 6:19 pm

  Thanks John.

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