David Pendry
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Hi, John.
I read yesterday about rendering using ‘Progressive Scan’.
It makes sense that this would reduce (at the very least!) the amount of ‘interlace breakup’ – and it has made a fair bit of difference.
All I have done so far is to re-render an existing project in Progressive Scan, but should I be Capturing Video in Prog. Scan, too?
(without looking, I can’t remember if that’s possible – my PC’s doing another render of the same project, anyway!)One last thing – and this is something I really should know :-/
Modern, flat-screen TVs….. are they interlaced in the same way as the older-style CRTs?
I’m almost embarrassed to ask that kind of question – but, if you don’t ask…Cheers.
David.
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Hi, John.
Just found this little tutorial of yours.
Being the sad chap I am, I’m sat here in front of the TV with my new laptop, and your video made me put “The Bourne Supremacy” on pause mode while I watched it!
So, there you have it – You are more ‘exciting’ (if you know what I mean?) than Jason Bourne!One question:
Am I able to achieve these effects on Vegas 8?Many thanks
Dave Pendry.
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I know this is an old thread – but this problem of no audio on MPEG2 is still around in August 2010.
I have just spent two days faffing around (it’s ok Mr Censor – that’s not a rude word, don’t worry!) trying to get audio from a brand-new Sony CX115E camera into Vegas 8.
The camera comes supplied with some (rather limited) software, which is little more than Picassa – called “PMB” (Picture Motion Browser)
You can shift the video into Vegas, no problem – but no audio.BUT!!!
And this is not made clear ANYWHERE in the software or the
(now very dog-eared) manual… there’s a little tab at the top-right corner of the “PMB screen”, which, in small font says:
“Convert to MPEG2”
Click on that – and – Bingo!
All your once-silent video clips now have their associated sound!Hope this helps after all this time.
(I expect everyone sussed this years ago – but kept it to themselves 😉
David
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Hi, John.
Thanks for your hints and tips yesterday.
I re-rendered the project, but this time I changed the file type to an .AVI file, and that seems to have done the trick!
The .VEG file version was the terrible one, and this has led me to go back and re-render a whole load of earlier projects!
It does strike me as a little strange that the results from the factory defaults are so rubbish, and that everybody seems to have so much trouble trying to attain the results they’re after / expecting.Anyway, it seems ok for now – but I have little doubt that will change on the next project :-/
Regards,
David.
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I’ve just spent 3 weeks editing a whole load of footage, rendered it, and transferred it to tape for an initial look-see on a decent-sized screen.
It was utterly dreadful!
ANY horizontal movement in the image (and this was bicyles – so there was quite a lot of that!) was split to a degree that the rider would be unrecognisable.
I gave up trying to use the HD function on my HDR-HC1, as this caused more trouble than it was worth, so everything is now shot in good ol’ SD (until Sony can prove that Vegas really works, that is!)
When uploading the footage, none of the parameters were changed from the factory default, as I tried this on the earlier Vegas 6, and made things somewhat worse.
Interestingly, the only parts of the footage that are NOT ‘splitting’ (at all!) are some bits where the individual clip has been ‘compressed’ to speed up the movement.
These clips are perfect!!!!!So – what should I be doing differently to get a result that’s vaguely watchable?
(I wonder how many of you said: “Get Final Cut…!”)If anyone is able to assist, I would be most grateful.
David.
ps. the PC was custom-made, purely for the purpose of editing, and was constructed with the tippy-toppest of components.
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Hi, John.
Yes, it was just the ‘render’ tab that I altered.
I’m just going to try the Progressive option and see what happens.
(I’ve got the whole thing onto tape now, so I can just experiment with it!)Cheers
David
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Excellent news, Steve!
I shall give that a go 🙂Many thanks for your help.
Cheers
David
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Hi, John.
Well, I tried swapping the “Upper / Lower Field First” setting, then re-rendered the project.
Eeek! Complete gobbledy-gook!
Maybe it’s because I hadn’t changed that setting before I uploaded the actual footage, I’m not sure.Anyway, I shall do that in future and see how I get on.
Many thanks for your assistance.
Cheers
David
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Hi, Steve.
I haven’t tried that, no.
Seems a bit unfortunate to have to use something else ‘outside’ of the Sony package, doesn’t it? :-/
However, if it’s going to give better results, I’ll certainly give it a go! 🙂Many thanks for the advice.
Cheers
David
http://www.camera-obscuraonline.co.uk
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Hi, Tim.
Not sure if you’ve seen the response I had from John Rofrano about this issue.
He says it’s an “Upper Field First” / “Lower Field First” issue.
This is complicated by the fact that HD uses ‘Upper First’ and SD uses ‘Lower First’.
I’m just about to try a re-render, after changing the setting, and see what happens.
Of course, the problem ‘could’ still be there, due the mix of HD and SD footage!!
Hey ho.
V6 never gave me these problems… I thin kI might upload V6 onto the editing PC!I shall let you know how it goes.
Cheers
David
http://www.camera-obscuraonline.co.uk