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Interlace flicker
I am into something that I do not understand. A little help would be great. I am working with still events (pictures). The original picture is 2560x 1920 or 1920×2560. I do not know what camera they used. I am working in Song Vegas Pro 8.
My problem I am getting Interlace flicker. I have resized the pictures to 720×480 png. This did not work I went as low as 640×480 png. Still getting interlace flicker with these setting. Also I have set the “reduce interlace flicker “ switch. I have the Deinterlace method set to “blend fields”
I have used 720×480 with all my other work with stills and it has worked great. But not so this time. Why I don’t know.
I read somewhere that you could add a bur to the picture and help take the flicker to some degree, If I ever knew how to do, I have forgotten.
I am getting anxious because I have had this work over two weeks now.
Thanks Very Much
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The reduce interlace flicker and de-interlace won’t work, because the interlacing not is coming from the still images, but from the project. So, two questions:
(1) What is your destination? I’m guessing DVD, because you are working with an interlaced project and that is the only format that I can think of where you’d want to use interlacing. If this project is not going to DVD, then change the project settings to Progressive and you are finished.
(2) Where are you seeing these interlacing “errors”? Interlacing that is apparent in a single still frame of video from Vegas’ timeline might not be apparent at all when the video is in full motion playback and might not be a problem at all. Furthermore, interlacing that is apparent on your computer monitor might look exactly right when you burn a DVD and play it back on your TV. So it all comes down to destination again: If you are producing a DVD with interlaced video, then the only place to verify whether you have a real problem or not is on a disc + TV and it doesn’t matter if you get flicker on a computer. And if your destination is computer/internet, then you should be rendering progressive.
Two final comments: You can render progressive to DVD if you want as well – that might do what you want if you need a disc that will play both places. Also, I would not generally pre-resize the images and I’d normally just bring in the source pictures at full-res into Vegas. This’ll give you more options for cropping and resizing too – although I can see an argument for resizing first, since it is then drag-n-drop easy to edit without any futzing about.
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Are you seeing this in a preview Window in Vegas? If so, it may simply be an artifact of preview mode. If you are seeing it in the rendered file, are you setting quality to Best in the render process and giving it a high enough bit rate?
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Eric my destination is DVD. I am watching the picture in Architect pro 9 after I had rendered it. I tried burning a disc and everything is fine. I am sorry I just do not Remmber getting the flicker in Architect. I had fool around with for about three day. Thank you very much.
Sorry I am just not getting back to you, My wife had some problems over the weekend and we spend a couple of days in the hospital. Things look pretty good now, thanks.
Don
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Bob thanks for responding to my post. Everything fine now see above. Thank you.
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Sorry about that wrong post. Please someone delite it.
Don
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