John Rofrano
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You could try VASST Celluloid, or Magic Bullet Looks, or DVFilm Maker. All three will give you that “film look”.
In the interest of full disclosure, I work at VASST, the makers of Celluloid.
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The lines might be interlacing artifacts. I would render the footage as progressive. That should clear up the lines.
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You are probably not doing anything wrong. It is not uncommon that Pinnacle hardware products only work with their software. The Dazzle 100 might be one of these devices. I have fallen prey to this too and have a really nice analog capture card that only works with Pinnacle software so don’t feel bad. You’ll need to use your Dazzle 100 with the Pinnacle software at least to capture. Then use Vegas for editing.
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It must be a trial limitation. The retail version also makes an ISO file but it will then burn it for you. I’ve burned Blu-ray’s on my Pioneer BD-RW BDR-220 and DVD Architect 5 works great.
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> What do you mean when you say render directly from the Vegas timeline? When I render I choose the “make movie” button at the top of the page and then step through the process in that fashion.
Yes, that’s what I meant. Then make a DVD MPEG2 file.
> I am viewing the final product on a 46″ LCD HDTV. The down sized images are not blurry. I will try to resize to 1440 x 960 tonight and see what the result is. I am worried when I do that I will have the flickering problem again due to the panning and zooming I am doing in the video. What is your solution for the flicker issue with panning and zooming in a slideshow?
If you are zooming a 720×480 image then you are probably causing the blurriness yourself by zooming in an image that is already full resolution. You really need to use 1440×960 if you plan to do any zooming. Also make sure you zoom with Pan/Crop and not Track Motion.
> Any idea why the uncompressed template creates a choppy video? I have rendered with that template in the past with no issues and for some reason this project results in choppy video with the uncompressed template.
Uncompressed requires a huge amount of disk IO and your PC probably can keep up with the demand.
> What template should I use to fill the frame on a 46″ LCD HDTV, NTSC DV Widescreen template?
Yes, but your project should also be widescreen and all of your images should be cropped to a widescreen aspect. Otherwise you will get black bars on the sides.
> Should the NTSC DV template render to a format to fit a standard 4:3 TV?
Yes, but your project should also be 4:3 and all of your images should be cropped to a 4:3 aspect. Otherwise you will get black bars on the top and bottom.
> When I use the NTSC DV template it still leaves black bars above and below the picture, and has large black bars on the left and right. Almost as if it is formatted in the horizontal direction for a standard TV.
Here is the “rule of thumb”. Everything needs to be the same aspect to look right. 16:9 project, 16:9 event crop, 16:9 render template OR 4:3 project, 4:3 event crop, 4:3 render template. They all have to match with no mixing.
> I just want to know how I should render when I want a project to fill a 16:9 tv and also for a 4:3 tv.
You can’t. You can either have one or the other.
> And how to get crisp pictures and not have the flicker issue due to high res pictures.
Try 1440×960 on a small test project and see. Don’t forget to enable Reduce Interlace Flicker on all of the images and you can add a slight .001 vertical Gaussian blur on images that are still flickering.
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Nope. Go to the Sony Suggestion site and add you name to the long list of us who have been asking for this feature for several releases. It is soarly needed and limits the usefulness of keyframing generated media. 🙁
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> So you say that AVC = AVCHD = format/codec from camcorder??
Almost… not all AVC is HD. You would also use the AVC to make MPEG4 files for Sony PSP, etc. But in your case, the AVC that you have is AVCHD.
> Sorry for the silly question then but why does Vegas 8 have templates for render to Blu-ray .avc extension and AVCHD .mt2s extension when it is the same??( i know that avc is only video and avchd is video and sound but is that the only difference??)
Mostly. The Blu-ray template makes an elemental stream (video only) which is all ready for authoring and the AVCHD makes a transport stream of both audio and video.
> When i in DVDA 5 have made a blu-ray disc(i.e AVC) and after that i want to use the same compilation for a normal dvd. Can i simple change the properties of the project to DVD and then “Prepare disk” again?
Does DVDA5 do all the right encoding to normal mpeg2 or must i do it myself in vegas all over and make an another compilation to make a normal video-dvd??It should do all of the re-encoding and make a regular DVD. I have been tempted to try this but haven’t yet. I have changed the project from Blu-ray to DVD and reused all of the menus and just substituted MPEG-2 files that I created in Vegas but next time I will try it this way and see. Sure seems like a lot less work than what I was doing.
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Forget rendering to uncompressed. It serves no purpose since DVD’s are MPEG-2. Just render to DVD MPEG-2 directly from the Vegas timeline and you will get the highest quality possible from Vegas.
What are you viewing the video on that makes you say that the pictures are blurry? Are the down-sized images blurry at all? Was the video sharper before you down-sized them? If so, maybe only downsize to 2x resolution. For 720×480 that would be 1440×960. This is the resolution I use on my photo montages and I don’t feel that they are blurry at all. Of course, if I watch them on my 50″ HDTV they look fuzzy but that’s because 720×480 doesn’t scale to 1920×1080 very well. They look absolutely fine on my 36″ SD TV.
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The rule of thumb is to choose the settings that are closest to your source. In your case, option 2) Blu-ray 1920-1080 50i 16Mbps is the one to render to in Vegas. Then when you create your Blu-ray project in DVD Architect 5, select AVC 1920×1080-50i, 16:9 since you’re already working with 1920×1080 AVCHD footage. It won’t hurt to use other settings but sticking with the format you are using makes things simpler.
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I’m glad you find our posts helpful. I remember the days when I first started out (before DVD burners were affordable) scouring the Internet trying to figure out how to make VCD’s on my CD burner and wondering why my video looked so horrible from what I saw on my camera. 😉 I always appreciated and remember those who took the time to help so, as my beloved father taught me, “always give back to your community… that’s what makes it a community!” so I try and help wherever I can. Thanks for your appreciation and I’m sure my peer moderators feel the same way.
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