[Benny B]

Hello again,

First many thanks for your input and valuable tips,
I think I have learnt a lesson recently,
-first: NEVER resize interlaced video footage, unless you know what you are doing
-second: first think then do
The only excuse which I have is that I am newbie in video editing and still learning, that lesson will remember forever

What I should have done in order to avoid all this:
1.go for 4:3 project settings -not much an option, +90% of the footage was anamorphic widescreen
2.do not crop at all- well, two vertical bars on both side of screen is not much eye appealing, is it?
3.use other capturing method -however the way I acquired DVD files is also good as long as you are dealing with progressive scan material or the footage is not reencoded the way I did (DVDs vobs to avis using DV codec)

I have noticed that the way Vegas process different video formats vary quite a lot. Mpeg video files (interlaced) are first de-interlaced than cropped/edited etc and then re-interlaced
DV avi files are on the other hand never de-interlaced prior to editing/cropping, thus any vertical crop results with “double interlacing” making output quality-wise intolerable creating sort of ‘interlacing interference effect’
Another unwanted ‘feature’ seems to be that Vegas first crops the frame and then stretches out to fill the frame, In my opinion that should be all the way around ie first upscale the whole frame so it matches crop aspect ratio then interpolate missing lines and finally crop

How to fix when it already too late ie your movie is already on the timeline? thats my formula:

-the bad interlacing effect can be mitigated by changing the media properties to progressive scan (right click>media properties>change field order) that improved final output a lot, need to say the interlacing artifacts are still visible but now are tolerable

Anyways, the lesson has been learnt

Kind Regards to all of you
Benny

[Benny B]

Mike, Rick

Nope, no luck here, moving cropped image dosent seem to work out

The only thing which might have been missed out is fact that DVD footage GSpot reports VOBs as ‘top filed first’, wheras VirtualDub apparently changed the field order during capturing to bottom field first but that is consistent with my project settings

see that capture
https://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=frame1wg8.jpgthat frame has been capturen as seen in preview window (final settings)

frame 2 is the same frame as frame 1 but with no crop, Vegas preview widow as well
https://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=frame2cp8.jpg

frame 3 is DVD render screenshot
https://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=frame3ba5.jpg

The reason for me not using Vegas for DVD capturing was HDD space, I needed only couple of takes from that DVD, probably my mistake, who knew?

Regards, and loads of thanks for your help

B