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Photo quality poor after rendering
My tired brain seems to want to recall how to fix this but honestly I’m lost. Last night when rendering video of still images / photos to MPEG2 at Best settings, my playback looks great EXCEPT the stills / photos look very soft and aliased.
I went back to the edit timeline and checked the images… they looked fine but as an experiment, I replaced them with the originals which looked great on the timeline. Even as this was rendering … the preview window showed the images looking fine. It’s when I playback the rendered file…the pics look awful. Everything else in the video looks great…motion bkgrd, fonts…
I reduced the size of the images in the pan/crop tool and copied them so as to have an alpha matte/transparent bkgrd so they could overlay on the motion bkgrd…even after that the images look fine on the timeline so something is happening during the render that I can’t seem to place. Is there some setting for the still images that I’m overlooking? When I copy the images for a matte…the default file is PNG.
Help Meee Pleeease !! :O
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4 Replies
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Curious about a few things before offering an opinion…
… rendered to mpeg2 at what resolution? Interlaced or not? And played back at what resolution?
… what format are the pictures? jpg? png?Canadian broadcaster brought up in analog, living in digital. Radio’s my career, audio-video-photography are hobbies that make a buck here and there.
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Try resizing your images outside of Vegas to match your project resolution. This will eliminate any resizing that Vegas is doing and should produce the best quality.
~jr
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+1 on what John said above. I was having the same problem as you, utilizing quite large JPG files on the timeline and having Vegas do the resize. I was able to achieve much better results by resizing the JPG in Photoshop to 1920×1080 and plopping the resized file on the timeline in place of the original.
Dave
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Thanks to all for posting. I basically figured out the resize issue and adjusted outside of Vegas before I realized you guys made the suggestion. It was a head-scratcher.
Thanks again!
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