[Antoine Van de cruyssen]

Hi Nigel,

Thank you for your answer. In search over this forum I also found out that the noise indeed was the problem. I’m using Sony HDR-SR10’s in 16MBit mode for fixed camera’s and a NEX-VG10 as “hand” cam on a tripod. I always put the SR10’s in fixed white balance / fixed exposure. The shots I’m talking about are made on a small stage with indeed poor light.

After reading about the MPEG2 coding on Wikipedia I learned a LOT about how this actually works. I downloaded the demo version of Neat indeed and this is just some brilliant plugin! I found out the problem is in the noise, but also the background of the stage which is made of rough stone… and that is horrible to render for the codec. Neat also made the stones look softer, and therefore the whole video cleared up.

On previous projects I used DV and HDV and this works definitely better and AVCHD for Vegas.

So my gear. Using above mentioned camera’s plus a bunch of other camera’s even including sercurity cams in B/W for creative editing. Two PC’s for video.
32-bit winxp, core2duo @ 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, Vegas 9
64-bit win 7, i7-2600k @ 4.4GHz, 16GB RAM, Vegas 10

But this Neat-video is really an amazing tool! And no, I’m not buying stocks of them, going to buy the plugin though.