John Rofrano
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Did you just change the field order of the render template? That is what I was referring to. You never want to change the field order in the event/media properties unless Vegas guesses wrong. You always want that set to the actual field order.
You could also try rendering progressive as well and see if that looks better.
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Maybe the Movie Studio version doesn’t have HD templates for AVI. I was thinking of Vegas Pro (sorry).
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The fact that none of the software you have shows the date and time is a good indicator that the timecode overlay is not recorded into the MPEG2 files. There may be an option on your camera to do this, but most modern cameras do not burn in the date overlay by default like they use to. Check the owner’s manual. For now, you may have to create a text overlay event in Vegas Movie Studio and manually type in the date and time where needed.
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> Anyone got any idea about when and if this will ever be fixed?
Hi Ray, My guess would be never. Windows Server is not a supported platform nor are there many people using it as a desktop OS so you are in a tiny minority that is not likely to get Sony’s attention. Try using a supported OS, maybe in dual boot mode.
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Jeff, this is really strange. I wish I had an answer for you but the fact that it works with AVI and not MPEG2 is even stranger. As a workaround, I would render to AVI and then render the AVI as MPEG2.
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Your hardware looks fine. I would try turning off scene detection during Vegas capture but it might be a bigger problem. I quick search reveals this thread on the Cow “Capture problems with BR-HD50 deck” about problems with FCP as well. It looks like this hardware doesn’t play nice with others. Good luck.
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> But when I try to render it in HD 1080-24p and I play the rendered video it lacks like hell
Define “looks like hell“. Do you still have black bars? Because that’s the initial problem we were trying to solve. Is the original footage 24p? Because if it’s not, you probably want to render to the same frame rate as the footage. What are you playing it on? Your computer? An HD-TV? The more information you can provide, the better we can help.
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Hi David,
I agree with your assessment that it is an interlacing issue. In particular, it sounds like a field order problem. As you probably know, interlaced video is captured as two fields which are temporally separated in time (either upper field first or lower field first). If you play these back in the wrong order, you will get the problem you are seeing.
This is complicated by the fact that HD is Upper Field First (UFF) and DV is Lower Field First (LFF) and you have a mix in your project. The first thing to check is the properties of the clips to make sure that Vegas has correctly interpreted the footage and has the correct filed order. One quick fix might be to reverse the field order in the render. So if you are rendering UFF switch it to LFF and see if that fixes the problem.
Somewhere in there your field order is getting misinterpreted and you need to find it and change it.
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Hover your mouse over the bottom of the window until it turns into a double arrow up and down and then click and drag up. The keyframe area is there, it’s just collapsed into the bottom of your window. You have to drag it up to see it.
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If you have black bars at the top and bottom it sounds like you are rendering 16:9 widescreen media to a 4:3 format since widescreen rendered properly doesn’t have black bars. You can just drop the widescreen project into a 4:3 project and add the logo as an overlay on a track above for the duration of the video.
You may be able to do this in Flash or Dreamweaver but I have never used those applications so I can’t say.
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