Chris Lohr
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That was it, thank you! I kept automatically going to Mask in the Pan/Crop, and that’s why it was moving around. I’m new to Vegas so I’m still getting confused over the basic features.
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Hmm… then I am unsure what is wrong. If I render de-interlaced, it properly de-interlaces everything. If I render interlaced, there is a problem (I put the rendered interlaced footage into media players with de-interlacing, as you said is a good way to test if all was done properly, and they couldn’t properly de-interlace the clips that had problems. But they properly de-interlaced all the rest of the footage). And checking the clips within Vegas with the de-interlacing preview also shows them properly de-interlaced. The problem is only in rendering them interlaced.
Confusing. At least the studio was OK with my de-interlacing.
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Thank you, John. By using that information, I’ve realized what the final problem was:
I couldn’t remove interlacing from some of the clips because I had done major cropping on them.I’m now looking up how to fix this, which should lead somewhere since I now know exactly what was causing the problem.
edit: Looks like “Reduce Interlace Flicker” is the answer, on clips that have this problem. Guess that is basically just de-interlacing those clips. So no way to properly render heavily cropped+zoomed interlaced clips, retaining the interlacing? I guess that makes sense, since it is enlarging the field size.
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Oh, OK. Yeah I was checking on a computer monitor. But the studio told me they had the lines showing up in FCP-X which is why they asked me to fix it. I also didn’t see the interlaced lines much when checking the original footage, only in my re-rendered footage, which is why I thought I messed up.
Thanks for letting me know about Interpolate Fields. They accepted the footage but I will re-render with Blend and send that to them.
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I set that to Interpolate Fields because it has constant very fast movement and I read that that was a better choice in that case, right?
But I was able to render de-interlaced fine. I just couldn’t render the video properly while keeping it interlaced. It kept rendering the interlaced lines into the frames. This is with Upper Field First selected in clip / project / render settings, rendering to DNxHD 1080i / 50. Frame rate set to 25. Can’t think of what else could possibly be set incorrectly, but if there’s any more info I could share I will. I’ll continue fiddling with this today.
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Alright, thank you John. I must just need to learn how to properly work with interlacing (which I’ll do on my own), because I still couldn’t get the footage to render properly after choosing Upper Field on the clips, project properties, and render settings. But I am OK for this project because I rendered it deinterlaced which they were fine with.
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Thank you for the idea, Bob. I will try that. I need the original (horn player) image to guide me, so I will also copy this image to the new layer, create the mask on it, then remove the image but copy that new mask to the underlying footage. Seems like this will work.