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Anyone use Steady Hand with .m2t files?
When I was working in SD I would occasionally use Steady Hand to take some shakiness out of clips. I tried to make an AVI file (needed for Steady Hand) from a .m2t clip, and the AVI was totally black. Any suggestions? Jim
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Try instead of getting a copy of Deshaker for Vegas (its free)
or Prodad Mercalli.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
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I tried Mercalli which is certainly rated good but I’ve yet to get a satisfactory result. It’s not that it doesn’t remove shaking well, but I do see at times slight jittery/shifting picture and I tried numerous combinations to no avail. I use upscale always and I can see that could cause weird transitions per frame (zooming differences).
If anyone knows how to get a reliable solid (HD) picture with any software let me know. It could be that I’m just too picky though.
For now I’ll definitely stick with a steadicam whenever possible. -
Steve, I should be able to make an AVI file from a .m2t file, right?
Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 5 Excalibur
Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz
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Yes that should work. What kind of AVI file is it? What is the video and audio codec? Potentially you may need to convert/remux it first.
Also what are your project properties? 32bit or 8bit?
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I am new to HD, so if you think I should change something, please let me know. I am not totally sure I know where to find the answers to some of your questions, but here is what I think you want:
Video stream is MPEG2 1440x1080x12
I don’t need the audio for this clip.
Project properties is 8 bit.
The AVI type is the Video for Windows option in Vegas Pro 8.
Thanks for your help.
Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 5 Excalibur
Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz
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The AVI is only the container. You choose then the codecs in the template column. E.g. DV or uncompressed YUV. That said they all should work. I just tried a HDV file and rendered as DV and played back fine fo me.
2 thing could be happening here:
– renders correctly but you don’t have a player to playback AVI with codecs correctly
– And/or it’s not rendered correctly because of steady hand.Questions:
1. What happens if you turn off the steady hand filter? Does that render AVI correctly?
2. While rendering, do you see video in the output render screen?
3. Have you tried different players with codecs like Videolan, K-lite codec pack/MPC or KMPlayer? -
When you choose AVI, what did you select under template setting?
I tried MPEG2 1440×1080 (HDV) and had no problems with DV and Sony uncompressed YUV. So it’s either issue with steady hand or you don’t have codec installed to playback the AVI file.
When you encode to same format, do you then see correct playback of resulting file?
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Did you render the HDV file to AVI?
My “AVI” file will not play in Vegas Pro 8 and it will not play in Windows Media Player. I am pretty sure it is not rendering properly. It should play in Vegas if it is rendered properly. Any other ideas. Thanks, Jim
Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 5 Excalibur
Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz
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Just tried today to output to AVI using Vegas 9 and I ran into same problem:-(. File was unplayable. Never seen these issues before in Vegas 8 but maybe there’s another reason. The file header appears to be correct but otherwise unplayable. VirtualDub reports bad format.
Looking into this…
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Thanks!
Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 5 Excalibur
Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz
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