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  Sony Vegas media does not render well on native settings?

  Posted by Kees Verwijs on May 26, 2013 at 8:54 pm

  Hi all!

  I’ve stumbled across a feature in Sony Vegas Pro which is driving me crazy, so I hope you can help me understand the following:

  When I create & render the letter “A” in Sony Vegas pro in 2 ways:

  Create in & Render to DVD format (native rendering)

  Create in & Render to HD format, then re-render to DVD format

  Completely against my expectations, the second method has a much better quality (much smoother edges). Is this a bug or am I missing something? I’ve posted the result on YouTube (see below).

  Exact Workflow:

  1) Generate Media

  A single character (“A”)

  Font color: white, size: 144, type: Arial Black, bold

  Bump map, intensity 0.150

  2) Set Project Settings to HD format

  Resolution: 1920×1080

  Field Order: None (Progressive)

  Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,0000

  Frame Rate: 50 (double PAL)

  Full Resolution Rendering Quality: Best

  Motion Blur: Gaussian

  Deinterlace: Interpolate Fields

  3) Render to HD format

  Sony AVC

  Template: HD 1920×1080-50p

  (50 fps; 1920×1080 Progressive; YUV; 26 Mbps; Pixel Aspect Ratio 1,000)

  “Stretch Video to fit output frame size” not checked

  4) Add rendered movie (.mp4) to timeline (behind the ‘original’)

  Add labels showing which clip is which

  Copy-paste both clips a few times so video flip-flops between the two methods

  5) Set Project Settings to DVD format

  Resolution: 720×576

  Field Order: Lower First

  Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,4568 (PAL DV Widescreen)

  Frame Rate: 25 (PAL)

  Full Resolution Rendering Quality: Best

  Motion Blur: Gaussian

  Deinterlace: Interpolate Fields

  6) Render to DVD Settings

  Type: MainConcept MPEG-2

  Template: DVD Architect PAL Widescreen Video Stream

  (25 fps; 720×576 Lower Field First; YUV; 6 Mbps; Pixel Aspect Ratio 1,457)

  “Stretch Video to fit output frame size” not checked

  7) Upload to YouTube

  The resulting video can be found here (best results when watching at 480p): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxjvXpRaBR4

  8) Note: I’ve also burnt the result of step 6) to a DVD and watched on an (interlaced) television. The result was the same: the natively rendered content was much more “blocky” at the edge of the “A” than the Re-rendered clip

  Kees Verwijs replied 12 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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