[Darren Goh]

Hi Paul and George,

It’s my first time using MXF format, and thank you for introducing it to me.

George, thanks a lot for the explanations on the formatting and the good practices.

And I did followed your advice, and the 1h 38mins video is working good with quality!

Learnt a lot from both of you. I’m just at the beginning! ☺

Thank you very much!

Darren

[Darren Goh]

Hi Paul,

I realised that mistake of mine where my project settings and render settings don’t tally. I’ve changed it.

For my disc space, i have 63GB free in my C drive where Vegas is installed. The video is being rendered and stalled in another drive with 1TB space. I hope that’s enough.

I’ll follow your method of rendering 20 mins of video as MXF followed by combining those 20mins as SONY AVCHD format or as MXF format.

I’ll also use 8 bit instead of 32bit. Just managed to learn about this when you mentioned about it. Thanks!

With regards to the blurriness, I’m confused too. I did tried out again where I corrected the rendering settings to be the same as the project settings, and rendered the whole 1hr 38mins video as a whole, but it still turned out not very clear with a bit of blurriness after 28mins.

It may be that my computer is not good enough.

Darren

[Darren Goh]

Hi George,

My replies are as follow:

Does the blur occur suddenly, or gradually? If it is suddenly I would suspect you have placed an FX on the track or project level. Although it could also be an FX that has been animated, but I would think you would have remembered doing that. (Darren’s reply: The blur occurred gradually when it starts to fade off to the next photo; I use the “Cut-to-overlap conversion (seconds)” option for all my photos. In addition, I didn’t use any FX but just the overlap of pictures. )

I would go to Preferences > Video tab and change ‘GPU acceleration of video processing’ to ‘Off’ and try another render, either full or as Paul suggest just a region past the 30 minute point. (Darren’s reply: I can’t find the “GPU acceleration of video processing” under the Preferences > Video tab. I’m using Sony Vegas Pro 9.0, and where to find it?)

Although probably not, it could be a heat issue. (Darren’s reply: I hope not, maybe I’ll open up the PC casing just in case; I did try to observe the GPU utilisation in the task manager, and I don’t see any high usage via the graph).

Are your stills jpg, png, or tiff? Just curious it shouldn’t make any difference. (Darren’s reply: jpg)

Also can you post here screenshots of your Project Properties and Render Format Template settings.

Project Properties:

General Preferences:

Editing Preferences:

Render As Video Settings:

Render As Project Settings:

Darren

[Darren Goh]

Hi Paul,

I just did what you suggested. I selected around 5mins of that timeline where the blurriness started around 28mins 29secs, and the rendered 5mins video looks good in quality as what I wanted.

Hence, no problem for that selected rendered timeline. ????

Darren