Soft output in Vegas

[John Rofrano]

…the output suffers from severe tearing artefacts in any movement or panning.

This is an interlacing problem. In your project properties, what do you have your Deinterlace method set to? It should be Blend fields.

~jr

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[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks John

That did the trick. It was set to NONE. I have been living with this problem for several years which I suspect started when I unleashed an Avid video editor loose on my system and he changed my settings. Not knowing exactly what he did, my only workaround was to render to the HDV template, resulting in DVDA rerendering everytime I wanted to make a DVD. My workflow just got 50% shorter!

I have one final question:

I notice the field order is set to upper field first in the HDV project properties, but in the Render as…DVDA template it is LOWER field first. I do recall this ‘expert’ changing that setting in the Project settings. Should they match?

Intel i920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 9 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1

[John Rofrano]

I have been living with this problem for several years which I suspect started when I unleashed an Avid video editor loose on my system and he changed my settings.

Nigel, this is a crazy way to work. What I would do if I were you is to start Vegas by holding down the Ctrl+Shift keys while double-clicking on the icon. This will reset Vegas to all of the default settings just like the first day it was installed. Anything the Avid editor did will be undone. If you have any preferences that you like you will have to change them again but at least you will know that your Vegas is now set up the way the Sony engineers wanted it, and not some Avid editor who had no clue what he was doing (because Vegas is NOT Avid!)

I notice the field order is set to upper field first in the HDV project properties, but in the Render as…DVDA template it is LOWER field first. I do recall this ‘expert’ changing that setting in the Project settings. Should they match?

Nope. They don’t have to match, they just have to be accurate. Here is where your “expert” may be doing the right thing for Avid but the wrong thing for Vegas which is why I said you should reset Vegas and undo all the damage he has done. The field order of HDV is upper field first and the field order of DVD MPEG2 is lower field first and (unlike Avid) Vegas is smart enough to do the proper conversion for you.

Do yourself a favor and reset Vegas (Ctrl+Shift+double-click)!

~jr

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[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks John

Intel i920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 9 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1

[Carl Harris]

Hi John,
I think that means my rendering settings are wrong too.
I’m using PAL AVCHD files 1920 x 1080 x 12.
I set the project properties to Pal DV Widescreen, then click on Upper Field First (AVCHD files), then it defaults to PAL standard/IMX widescreen. 8 bit pixels, Good quality rendering, Gaussian blur, Blend Deinterlacing, and I don’t check the “adjust source media…” button.
Here’s where I’m unsure, in the rendering template for DVD Architect Pal Widescreen, it defaults to lower field first, but I’ve been setting it to upper, because it’s AVCHD, am I wrong?
Also, what is the “12” in my AVCHD file?
Also, how do I set my original footage which is at 16mbps to match Vegas, which I think I read on the forum is 12mbps?
Many thanks for all your advice on this forum it’s helped me so much.
Carl Harris

[John Rofrano]

Hi Carl, You are falling into a trap that many new users face. Stop adjusting things… stop changing the filed order… just let Vegas do it’s job.

Here is the workflow:

(1) Start a new project and select AVCHD PAL and change nothing!

(2) Edit your video.

(3) Render using the PAL DV Widescreen template and change nothing!

Vegas will “do the right thing”. It is smart enough to handle the differences in field order. Just use the standard templates Vegas provides.

~jr

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[Carl Harris]

Just to clarify, is it this project setting:

HD 1080-50i (1920×1080 25.000fps).

Thanks again.

[John Rofrano]

If your AVCHD camera shoots 1920×1080 then yes, that is the correct project setting. Some AVCHD cameras shoot 1440×1080 PAR 1.3333, in which case you would use the HDV 1440×1080 project setting.

~jr

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