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Experiment didn’t work
I have some footage that I shot, at out church, of Lee Singers, a choir from Lee University. I used my Sony VX2100 in 4:3 mode. I want to make this into a widescreen DVD. Here are the steps I have taken. Captured video as normal, in Vegas properties I chose NTSC widescreen 720×480, in pan/crop I chose 16:9 aspect ratio and adjusted the location of the frame, I rendered as Main Concept MPEG2, DVDA NTSC widescreen video stream, in DVDA properties I chose NYSC widescreen (720×480). It plays with black bars (top & bottom) on a normal TV and fills the screen on a widescreen TV (as I had planned). However I am noticing that the quality of the video seems to be sub-par. When I pan the camera, all edges of vertical objects are “wavy”. As long as the camera does not move, everything is clear. But any camera movement or movement of people results in the “wavy” pattern on the edges of the subject. Long post, sorry, but any ideas or explanations?
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Have you tried the option of “Rreduce Interlace Flicker” in the active take properties? What are the render options you have selected for the project
Cheers
Jeremy
MJ Productions
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[Doug Lewis] “I rendered as Main Concept MPEG2, DVDA NTSC widescreen video stream”
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The “reduce interlace flicker” helped. The wavy edges are gone. This makes the video acceptable. Obviously it is going to be best for me to shoot my videos in 16:9 to begin with, but I still need a way to convert old video to 16:9. The new HD TV we got for Christmas has already converted me from 4:3 to 16:9. A 4:3 screen just doesn’t look right to me anymore. I’ll take it a step at a time. First start shooting in widescreen and then start shooting HD. Just have to start saving for HD equipment.
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Another question. I had done a conversion of a wedding video from the past, shot in 4:3, converted to 16:9. I used all the same settings described in the above post. The choir and the wedding were both shot with my Sony VX2100. I did not have the “wavy” edges in the wedding video conversion like I had in the choir conversion. Any thoughts why?
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