have I made a mistake changing to vegas

[Imants Ozers]

Yes YOU have made a mistake! I do pip in vegas all the time with no problems. Have you set something wrong in your render settings, interlace method, etc…??? I mostly use default settings with very good results.

Of course you could just buy a mac, fecal cut pro, or avid excess, and not only will it do pip for you all by itself perfectly but it will make your coffee and fluff your pillow at bedtime! But really you sound like an adobe premier person – there are so many good training products available for that stuff… no really, I’m not kidding.

[Adam Rose esq.]

only four? I thought initially you were complaining about something difficult

😉

Vegas does PIP in its sleep, and not only that, will do it in 3D if you want, which is not something most other NLEs can boast. If you’re getting poor quality output, rest assured you need to read the manual, or get some training DVDs, or take a more tactful approach.

btw, if you’ve seen those HP ads that were all the rage recently, that is something easily done in Vegas, which is slicker use of PIP than most people require.

give us more info on your settings and we might be able to help. No, I haven’t looked for your previous thread.

[Edward Troxel]

I’ve never had any problems doing PIPs and they’ve always looked fine in the final result. I was trying to help with your particular question/situation but Vegas handles PIP just fine and very easily.

Edward Troxel

[Randall3]

‘any shot with a pan or any movement has a desperate jagged or vertical wave look’

1. Did you turn off ‘track motion?’
2. Did you encode at a low bit rate? VBR?
3. Did you try deinterlacing the footage/photo before encoding?

[Mike Kujbida]

In case no one took the time to read Chris Young’s reply to Thomas’s original question, it seems that PAL users have a periodic problem with resizing in both track motion and pan/crop.
Chris has tried all the solutions suggested here (and then some) and has not been able to resolve this problem either.
Seems to me like it’s another bug that only shows up in the PAL format.
For example, there’s a time code entry bug that is limited to the PAL format as well.
Sounds like it’s time for an email to Sony tech support, although complaints about the time code bug have apparently fallen on deaf ears so far 🙁

Mike

[Adam Rose esq.]

understood, though am a PAL user and have never had the problem

luck for the draw

[Barend Jasper]

Me neither. I am 100% PAL and just made 16 PIP’s, without any problem whatsoever.

Barend

[Dave Mccallister]

There is a checkbox in the properties screen for each video element marked “reduce interlace flicker.” This stopped the wavy tearing effect cold for me on a PIP this morning.

This was ahead of any MPEG rendering…I was still working with avi’s when I saw the artifacts in the PIP. Using Vegas 6.0c, NTSC DV.

[Thomas Quinn]

Thanks everyone who took the time to reply to my question. The idear of the subject message was to get more replys which it did as I love using Vegas to edit. Reduce interlace flicker fixed near all of the problem but a few fast moving shots (which I have now replaced) I may be tempted to go for one of the systems suggested by Art
( you could just buy a mac, final cut pro, or avid excess, and not only will it do pip for you all by itself perfectly but it will make your coffee and fluff your pillow at bedtime!)
Thomas

[Chris Young]

Thomas ~

This problem has been bugging me for some while now. I have now had a bit more of a chance to try and get my head around the problem and seem to have found an answer… so far! I tried a 4 x pic-n-pic over a background with the worst offending material I had. One pic was of fast motion basketball players running with a quick moving camera. Another shot was kids running around in a park playing ball. The third shot was a camera tracking down a covered pathway following people. In this shot the pillars that held the roof up were a nightmare when p-n-pic’ed previously. In fact all three of these clips have all caused problems before. The last shot was just a fairly static group of people sitting around talking which I included to see if any answers to the motion field splitting problem were going to impact on the more static type shots. In the long run it didn’t

After having another good read of the Vegas manual I decided to try the following:

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