Exporting from Vegas

[Theo Van laar]

It looks like you accidently switched on MOTION BLUR…

Theo

[Rob Franks]

I have the SR11 (ntsc) and Sony Vegas pro and have no issues at all. I write to Blu Ray and it’s perfect every time. Given that, I can only assume that you are not doing things correctly or have a setting wrong somewhere

You don’t mention your workflow, export method or settings in any detail so it’s kind of hard to assist. Please state your workflow in detail from start to finish.

[John Rofrano]

> You don’t mention your workflow, export method or settings in any detail so it’s kind of hard to assist. Please state your workflow in detail from start to finish.

This is exactly what I was thinking. Since you are working with a PAL camera (I assume you really have the HDR-CR12E), did you set your project up for PAL? (because Vegas Pro defaults to NTSC) and did you render as PAL?

Here is what you should be doing:

1. Create a new project with the project template: HD 1080-50i (1920×1080, 25.000 fps)
2. Drop your footage on the timeline
3. Render using Sony AVC with the template: AVCHD 1920×1080-50i

Burn that to Blu-ray and see if it doesn’t look perfect (it should).

~jr

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[Joel Taylor]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the responses. The camera is a Sony HDR SR12 1920 x 1080i 50i PAL 25fps.

I am copying the raw m2ts files from the camera to my hard drive via USB. Then I open Vegas 9 and make the project 1920 x 1080i 50i 25fps (or sometimes I just click the button that says something like “Match Video Setting”) Then when I have finished editing I render as AVCHD 1920×1080-50i.

Then depending on the project I sometimes import into DVDA and burn a 720 x 576 PAL 25fps DVD. What I find strange is that if I copy the raw file onto the PS3 via USB and play it off the PS3 hard drive it looks jumpy but when played through component looks perfect.

I should add I am not burning to bluray yet as I don’t have a blu ray burner but I have tried burning the data file which the PS3 recognises but cant play without the ghosting. Someone on another thread said they had this problem but they changed the project to 50fps and rendered out at 50fps. I tried this but the computer just kept crashing. Frankly I dont see how you can get frames where there are no frames.

I am burning a holiday video at the moment which (fingers crossed) seems to be working… i turned resampling off on all clips and from what i have watched looks like it may have been fixed.

Thanks guys

[John Rofrano]

> Then depending on the project I sometimes import into DVDA and burn a 720 x 576 PAL 25fps DVD.

If you are trying to create a SD DVD then I would render to MPEG2 PAL from Vegas and not let DVD Architect do it. This gives you more control. You can also test the MPEG2 file before it gets burned to DVD.

> Frankly I dont see how you can get frames where there are no frames.

This is usually caused by a frame rate mismatch, e.g., PAL to NTSC where new frames are created by blending existing frames together which causes ghosting.

Try playing the SD PAL DVD that you create on a regular set-top PAL DVD player. This will rule out that the PS3 is doing something strange.

~jr

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