• VEGAS Pro

  Interlaced Video Preview

  Posted by Joshw27 on February 8, 2007 at 8:47 pm

  Hello,

  I am working w/ interlaced footage in Vegas video – NTSC-DV footage – Lower fields.
  My project setting are exactly that of my footage.

  Now to my question/s –

  I am seeing horizontal lines (like interlaced footage) during movement and what to know if this is normal because it’s playing back on a “progressive” screen, my LCD monitor. When I playback the footage in Windows Media Player, I also see the same lines. I’m 95% sure this is normal, but want to make sure before I do all the final touches and output and burn to DVD that I don’t have some field order, pull down, interlace, etc issues. The final output is going to be to DVD, so I figured I’d just leave the video interlaced throughout my editing.

  I did export a small clip to progressive and the horizonal lines where gone, but I noticed a degrading in sharpness and quality.

  thanks for the help.

  Also, you’d figure Vegas would build in some deinterlacing in the “preview” monitor when it detects interlaced footage. I don’t see any harm in that or atleast give you the option to turn it on or off if you are outputing to a interlaced source. Maybe it’s there any I don’t know where.

  Josh

  Rick Mac replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rick Mac

  February 9, 2007 at 3:29 am

  Josh,

  You nailed it, normal. The lines you see are the result of interlaced video being played back on a progressive scan computer monitor. All will be well when played out to a interlaced TV. I would suggest that you add a DV converter box such as a DataVideo or Canopus box which will output your timeline to a video monitor. That takes the guess work out of it.

  Regards, Rick.

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