• VEGAS Pro

  Final output rendering???

  Posted by Graeme on January 28, 2007 at 4:43 am

  I have been using the mighty V for a couple of years now, and have been told always render my final projects (tv spots) to uncompressed AVI to go to beta SP to send out to stations. I have found that on certain projects this gives me horizontal lines that appear with tight, quick zoom, lot’s of motion camera shots. I just for the heck of it rendered the same project out in quick time….and wouldn’t you know NOTHING in terms of weird lines!!???!!?? Am I doing something wrong with Vegas? or should is quick time better??? Does this mean the MAC and it’s related editing software programs are better? I know that a majority of TV stations use AVID and that is PC based. I have used AVID in the past and while it is complicated, it seems to give a better preview and the output seems more consistent. Vegas sometimes feels “cheap”. Or am I just missing something?? I recently started working for a TV station as a traffic producer/back up fill in traffic reporter/technology reporter. I have done a few packages for air and they just don’t “pop” the way the Avid stuff that the TV station does…I’m not even talking camera shots or anyhting like that. The Vegas graphics and fonts look washed out??? I don’t know? I am using PS7 for fonts and graphic and have a pretty sweet HDRFX1 with lighting and Vegas. Any thoughts???

  Thanks!
  G

  Graeme replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Mikelinton

  January 30, 2007 at 6:58 pm

  I’ve done plenty of stuff for broadcast with Vegas, and it turns out great if you know how to properly setup your graphics and output. Also, the on-air graphics you are seeing from the station aren’t dubbed, and are likely all 10-bit digital as opposed to component… As well, make sure you understand how Vegas’ SRGB color space works. There are some articles around describing how to work with it properly.

  The issue ‘lines’ you are describing sound to me like a field issue. Vegas natively runs at 720×480 (which is standard for DV, and DVD). Some systems run at 720×486 (which is the standard for non-DV). You can easily flip Vegas into 720×486 by changing your project settings. If you are getting someone else to output your files to BetaSP, this is likely your issue. What might be happening is, your 480 footage is being scaled vertically by 6 lines which will throw all the fields out of wack. Double check the settings on the system you are using for output, make sure you match your settings in Vegas.

  We render to uncompressed AVI all the time to move footage between different programs, and never have an issue.
• 

  Graeme

  January 30, 2007 at 7:54 pm

  THANKS SO MUCH!!! I appreciate your time, and yes I’ll try what you mentioned. I figured that it was some technical setting that I knew nothing about. Thanks again for the help!!

  Tkae care,
  Graeme

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up