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photo flicker
I have just completed my video of our hawaiian vaction. I have gotten better at moving around vegas. I have included three slide shows that include pictures prepared in photoshop at 1440 x 1064 dpi. This allows me enough extra size to add plenty of movement to the pictures. I’ve got twenty minutes of slide shows and the rest video that I am very pleased with. Except when I burned the test dvd I have terrible flicker in the photos with the movement. The pictures have smooth movement in and then out on the next picture nothing extreme but the flicker or sparkles make it almost impossible to watch. I have the video set to NTCS DV 720 x480, good rendering quality, lower field and deinterlace method blend fields in Vegas 5. Any suggestions? Or should I just keep the movement to a minimum and add a moving background to spice it up. Thanks Bob
Bob
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Have you tried “Reduce Interlace Flicker”?
To do your entire timline, either run a script or select the first event, shift-click the last one and, while still on the last one, right click it and select “Switches – Reduce Interlace Flicker”. -
Have you tried “Reduce Interlace Flicker”?
To do your entire timline, either run a script or select the first event, shift-click the last one and, while still on the last one, right click it and select “Switches – Reduce Interlace Flicker”. -
Thanks, I am trying it right now.
Bob
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Well I tried the switch reduce flicker and it helped but its really not satisfactory. Some of the pictures are okay but certian type of pictures that have sharp contrast (costline blue water, white water against mountians and sky) still have a lot of flicker. I notice it mostly when there is vertical movement across the scan lines. I am playing this on a 53 inch TV and that may make it worse. Think I’m going to change the pan & crop to only a small movement and mostly sideways and or just a short movement and during the transition. I have made many slideshows in the past usually with a moving background and the pictures only covering about 3/4 of the screen. I took these pictures on a canon rebel and they are great. I just hope I can do them justice on the TV screen. Any other suggestions appreciated. Thanks Bob
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I seem to have had good luck by reducing the size and/or resolution of problematic photos & graphics. I recently did a TV commercial in which the client supplied huge, print ready logos. Some of them looked horrible on screen, until I made them smaller in Photoshop. It seems counter intuitive to reduce the quality of an image in order to fix your problem, but it’s worked for me.
I’ve also used very slight blur to reduce flicker.
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“Some of the pictures are okay but certian type of pictures that have sharp contrast (costline blue water, white water against mountians and sky) still have a lot of flicker.
Most digital camera images are outside of the normal 16-235 range of DV (i.e. they’re 0-255). To correct this, click the Event FX icon on the image and select Color Corrector (Secondary). Now select the Computer RGB to Studio RGB preset. This brings the 0-255 range down to 16-235 and helps a lot with high contrast images.
I notice it mostly when there is vertical movement across the scan lines.”
Try a VERY small amount (0.001) of vertical-only Gaussian blur and see if that helps.
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Thanks very much for your suggestions. I have used Vegas for a little over a year but not enough to get the most out of it. I have tried the secondary color correction and the slight blur and it is rendering now. On screen it looks like it will have a marked effect. Thanks again everyone for your input. This site is so much help for someone like me when I get stumped and become frustrated. I will let you know how it turns out. Bob
Bob
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DVD looks great! Those minor adjustments didn’t hurt the color or the sharpness. Thank you very much. Bob
Bob
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“DVD looks great!”
Bob, thanks for letting us know that the suggestions worked.
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This has been an extremly helpful post exchange. I printed this one out for the archive. Nice.
J. Williams
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