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“Shimmering” final results
I’m pretty new to Sony Vegas but LOVE it. However, I have noticed that I have a lot of “shimmer” to photos when panning and zooming. These were taken with a 6 megapixel camera so I know that they are high enough quality. I’ve read several posts of advice how to remedy rending problems but it doesn’t seem to work…especially after I hear so many different things like, “Use A Progressive Scan for both the properties AND rendering” or “DON’T use a progressive scan, you’ll lose quality…go with Upper Field in both and don’t deinterlace.” or “Use a lower field order and blend fields for best results” I’ve tried some of these and none of them seem to work. The video portion of the projects also have lines though them or are “wavy” around the edges.
I have tried to render it into AVI and MPEG2 but I just can’t get it to work. Does anyone out there know the settings I can use for a good-looking final project? I would appreciate any help I could get.
Thanks in advance,
Jason
P.S. It is widescreen video I shot with the Sony HDV 1080i but I did not shoot it in HD.
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I’m not an expert in this, but I’ve had similar problems. The two best solutions for me have been to render in “Best” mode, which you may already be doing, and also to dumb-down the resolution of the problematic pics, and sometimes change their format, in Photoshop.
I recently had shimmering issues on a tv spot I was working on. I realized that a lot of the graphics I received from the client were 300 dpi. They were in various formats, mostly intended for high quality printing, and some were in CMYK instead of RGB mode. It seems like a lot of the problem went away by lowering the resolution to 72 dpi on the problematic ones, and making sure they were all in RGB mode. Since I saved the Photoshopped images as new files, I had to reinsert them on the timeline, and re-do the pan/crop settings, but it worked and I didn’t see a problem in the quality on screen.
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Also: Right lick on the picture in the timeline: select “properties”; in the screen that comes up, make sure that “reduce interlace flicker” and “force resample” are selected.
Rick
Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
http://www.RickWiseDP.com
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I will give both of these a try. Thanks. What would you guys suggest as “basic settings” for Vegas projects? I mean with the whole interlacing in “project settings” and in rendering?
Jason
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I think I just learned something new….
So, when you render, it makes a difference if you have your preview monitor on Best or Draft (I think that’s what the not so good one is called)?
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Preview screen makes no difference on a render. Choosing “good” or “best” on the render will make a difference in this case. Pick the render type and preset, click on “Custom”, and change from good to best (NOTE: Generally speaking, unless your using photos or other higher resolution images/footage, good will be as good as best but render faster)
Edward Troxel
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cool….thanks
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I will try changing the resolution on the photos to see if it makes any difference. Thanks.
Do you know if using Lower or Upper for the field order is better? I read on a tutorial that Upper should be used for rending to something viewed on TV yet a friend of mine said that Lower is really the best way to go with it.
Jason
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Standard NTSC DV is lower field first.
Edward Troxel
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Thanks!
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