• VEGAS Pro

  hd resolution problem – continued

  Posted by Leslie Wand on October 26, 2006 at 11:44 am

  back again…. and thanks for the previous advice everyone – much appreciated.

  so, i took two examples

  http://www.hannakay.com/test-pics/

  as stills they looked great in both 720p / 1080i+p (i’m in pal land)

  then i did a simple motion move (with and without ‘reduce interlace flicker’) 10sec each – that panned across ‘sturt’, and on ‘stalking’, then top to bottom on ‘stalking’.

  in sd the results were as i expected – smooth if not that sharp.

  at 720p as still they look fantastic, but artifact’ed on the pans, with some ‘minor jerking’.

  at 1080, again they looked brilliant as stills, but totally unacceptable with the artifactng and stuttering on all moves.

  does this mean i’m going to have to stay with sd? i mean i have a pretty clear idea of creating smooth, clean moves in v6 / 7, and monitoring the effects but this artifacting on high res pictures (and i haven’t even tried cross-hatched drawings!!!) is totally unacceptable.

  video is great, no problems in that dept at either 720p or 1080, but my main clients are pretty serious artists who supply me with high res images – and accept the softening associated with sd – but the few i’ve shown the test to have all said they’d prefer sd if that’s the best hd has to offer.

  i would really, really appreciate some feedback about this problem….

  thanks

  leslie

  Dan Achatz replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dan Achatz

  November 3, 2006 at 3:04 am

  What Image sizes are you working with?

  I’ve noticed that once you get above a certain size image you start to get lots of artifacts.

  Things to try.

  Use Photoshop to downsize and compress the images. Try 2000 pixels wide. It wont give you too much pan room in 1080i, but it should give you plenty of room in 720P.

  Also, the other thing that helps is to blur the images by .001 H and .001 V.

  Dan Achatz

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