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Source Video Looks Good But Has Artifactes When It’s In Vegas
I have a video that looks great, but when brought into Vegas it has some weird artifacts. I don’t do a lot of video editing so I uploaded a screen shot so you can see what I’m talking about. The artifacts are present in the Vegas session and when I render it out. How do I fix this? The video is artifact free until it hits Vegas. I just need to add this clip to a compilation video I’m putting together but it looks pretty bad so at this point I’m leaving it out unless I can get the problem fixed.
The video is an MP4 H.264. Let me know if there’s any other information you need. Thanks!
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You are in preview mode, switch to Full mode
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I’m not in front of Vegas now so I’ll do my best going off of memory. For you to view it in Vegas at it’s best resolution switch your mode to Best mode instead of preview mode. This will now make it look it’s best within Vegas. Now rendering out is another scenario. On your project properties make sure your render settings are set to best & not good, both video & audio tabs you’ll need to select this. Now you will still need to render it out with a few more manual steps. You can render the file out as a Sony Mp4. Select the same frame rate & size as source I.E. 23.976 ? 1920 – 1080 ? Then you should have some where around 8,000,000 data transfer bit rate to obtain a high quality video.
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Thanks for the suggestions, but none of the suggestions are fixing the issue. Switching to Full/Best makes no difference. Rendering it out with the suggested settings also makes no difference. Its almost like maybe there is something wrong with the source footage, but Vegas is the only program that notices it.
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Hello Nick,
One thing I just thought of. When you first opened your file did you first (Hit the film icon in your project properties tab ?)
If you didn’t this is probably your problem.
Open a new session in Vegas, then open your project properties tab. There will be a small film icon at the top right of this window box. Click it, it will then go to windows explorer, at that point find what folder your file is in then select it & click it.What this does is Vegas will match all it’s attribute settings to this file. Then yo0u can click best in the video preview. Then you can follow my previous instructions on how to render a clean file.
Let me know how it turned out ?
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No, I set Vegas project settings to match the clip like that when I started the session and it makes no difference.
I had an idea though. Since to me it looked like maybe there was an issue with the source file (even though the issue was only showing up in Vegas) I converted the file to an H.264 .mov file using Quicktime Pro. I brought that file into Vegas and the issue is gone. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that sooner!
Thanks for all the help!
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