Vegas 8 and MPEG Quality issue

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Vegas 8 and MPEG Quality issue

Posted by Sebastien Gravel on July 17, 2008 at 12:45 am

I’ve put together a project with 3 different angles from 3 different camera. Two of them where mini-dv the third was a DVD one recording in MPG format. When I encode to burn in DVD Architect (version 5), the clips coming from the DVD camera are very shaky. Movements are really broken up. The clips are much degraded compared to the originals. I’ve tried to encode both from Vegas and Architect. I’ve also taken the NTSC DV preset and a custom preset with 9.5 2 pass encoding bitrate. None came out very smooth. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Sebastien Gravel replied 17 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Laszlo Kovacs
July 17, 2008 at 4:13 am

What happens, if you render it out changing the field order?

Regards

K.L.
Sebastien Gravel
July 17, 2008 at 12:11 pm

Won’t that mess up my other two cameras which are regular mini-DV interlaced?
Mike Kujbida
July 17, 2008 at 12:59 pm

First of all, 9.5 is way too high of a bitrate.
The usual recommendation is to not exceed 8.

For the DVD camcorder footage, try rendering out that material to DV-AVI and then using that on your timeline.
You will lose some quality doing this but you may save whatever hair you have left 🙂
Sebastien Gravel
July 17, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Ok, I’m too far into the project to transfert MPG to AVI on my timeline. I already have that camera mixed together with the two others (multicamera editing). Is it possible to reinterprete footage or something like that? How would I go about converting the MPG to AVI, and could I have the original media replaced with those avi files?

Thanks!

p.s I’m kind of in a rush. Need to mail it this morning…arghhh.
John Rofrano
July 17, 2008 at 1:24 pm

> How would I go about converting the MPG to AVI, and could I have the original media replaced with those avi files?

How many MPG files are we talking about? If it’s one or two files just drop them on an empty timeline and convert them to DV AVI. then open your project and go to the Project Media window and right-click on the MPG file and select the Replace… option and navigate to the AVI file and select it. This will replace the MPG media with the AVI media everywhere in your project.

~jr

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Sebastien Gravel
July 17, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Should the DV-AVI be with lower field/upper field or progressive?
Mike Kujbida
July 17, 2008 at 2:36 pm

NTSC DV-AVI will be lower field.
Sebastien Gravel
July 17, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Thanks! I was able to improve the footage following your instructions!

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