Smooth still image sequence

[Hans-joachim Schuetze]

Hey Jake, welcome back. Hope you’ve had a good time.

I have no definite answer, just a bunch of thought starters where things may have gone differently (“wrong” is such a strong word…) 😉

To start with, I cannot tell if something changed in the process from taking a picture with the camera to getting the picture sequence into Vegas at 8fps. If all those other things below fail, consider checking the camera (picture resolution? – mh, sounds unlikely) and still picture import settings (pixel aspect ratio?).

Also, reading your post it seems that you are pre-rendering the the still image sequences into video clips (and then compiling the video clips in another Vegas project), check the render settings… My best guess right now is that you have rendered the 2nd bit (the one without the storm trooper types) into a 16:9 intermediate project, and then gotten it back into a 4:3 aspect ratio overall project, squeezing it at some point during the process…or something like that. (If you did render the two bits into separate intermediate video files, ensure both projects are the same.)

Another wild guess is that you should look into the “Event pan/crop” feature. To open, use that little odd-looking rectangle center-right of the sequence in the time line, or (with the sequence clicked on in the time line) go to Tools –> Video –> Video Event Pan/Crop. Just by looking at this, you should check if, in the 2nd bit, the “selection area” (the dotted lines with the big F inside) goes outside the picture left and right. Very worst case, you could use the pan/crop feature to work around the bug, but this can be a pain in the behind, and you may experience a loss of quality, as you might see the pictures you zoom into pixelate.

This is a lot of guesswork. If the above rambling does not help, consider posting a screenshot of your Vegas project – if you want to keep the picture size small, a look at the time line might be the most useful.

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Hajo Schuetze
Video editing amateur
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[John Rofrano]

You obviously did something different or forgot a step that you did the last time. Is your project set to match your source images or your output resolution? What are you project properties and what are you final output/render properties. I have to imagine that you will need to do some cropping unless the two match in aspect.

~jr

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[Jake Theriault]

Thanks so much for all the suggestions! I tried most of them, and finally one worked. I just had to set up the Project Properties right. I had it in 640×480 and the frames I imported were in 720×480 for some strange reason…. I guess I was gone so long it… reset itself? I dunno, but thanks any way!