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Project Nesting looks terrible
I’ve created a project in 1440×1080, upper field first. It consists mostly of zooming and panning over stills, but there is some video in there, as well.
I need to burn this project to DVD, so I decided to give project nesting a try. I’ve previously nested videos in order to get them to DVD aspect ration, but never projects.
Anyway, the new project’s settings were 720×480 (widescreen), upper field first. And the rendered results are TERRIBLE. Jagged edges, lots of flickering…it’s a mess. When I nest video I never have this kind of result – what in the world is going wrong?
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Your problem is probably that you’re interlacing the progressive images in the original project and then dropping them into another interlaced project. Why don’t you just render the original project directly to DVD Widescreen to begin with and forget about nesting? In fact, I would render to DVD Widescreen 24p to keep the images progressive.
~jr
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Well, it’s complicated.
The original project is interlaced 1) because the video was shot interlaced and 2) because certain pans across the still images are much smoother when interlaced (rendering as progressive causes some jittering).
It would obviously be easiest to render in SD from the original project, but the cropping gets messed up if I do that. The still pictures I am using no longer fill the screen; there are slight black edges on the left and right. The only way to solve that,as far as I can see, is to re-crop all the pictures.
There is one one final reason I need to nest. The original video has important things that are not in the safe area. By nesting, I can resize the entire thing to fit in the safe area.
Anyway, I tried your suggestion about making the original HD project progressive, and nesting it into a SD project also in progressive. All of the jaggedness is still there. So, I don’t know what the problem is, but it can’t be interlacing because there is no interlacing going on at this point.
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[Brian Tallant] “The still pictures I am using no longer fill the screen; there are slight black edges on the left and right. The only way to solve that,as far as I can see, is to re-crop all the pictures.”
You can solve that by checking the render option: Stretch video to fill output frame size (do not letterbox).
[Brian Tallant] ” All of the jaggedness is still there. So, I don’t know what the problem is, but it can’t be interlacing because there is no interlacing going on at this point.”
What are you using to judge this? If you are looking at the Vegas preview, make sure you set it to Best(Full) before you start to judge the quality.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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