[Kevin Reinicke]

John,

DVCPRO PAL/NTSC doesnt work for me, looks qualitywise like a youtube upload when I render it.

I figured how to render the finished file to widescreen PAL/NTSC with quick time pro. It renders the final broadcast safe file (uncompressed quick time or BMP) to animation or BMP and AAC codec (that sounds better to me than PCM, although that is supposed to be loseless).

It gives me a filesize of abt 4,0 GB and has a great quality.

Is there any specific reason why you assumed they would want a DVCPRO file from me?

[Kevin Reinicke]

John, thank you for your answer. You´re my hero.

The channel wants to receive a Quicktime file (on a DVD) with the highest quality possible. The file is supposed to be 720×576 interlaced
for PAL. (I need the NTSC Version for another Satellite Channel, that wants Quicktime, 720×486 interlaced)

What do I have to do, to get a decent interlaced version without interlaced flickers in this resolution from Sony Vegas? (God, I tried a million settings)

[Kevin Reinicke]

John, thank you for your answer.

Yes I have tried that, but I really dont like the quality of it.
It gives me a 600mb avi file (for a 3 min music video), which qualitywise is so much worse than for example a quick time animation (100 percent, size of abt 4 GB) rendering. Also the colors change a bit when rendering to DV Widescreen NTSC/PAL, which also kinda messes up my color correction.

I have 4,7 GB space for a DVD delivery, so Im trying to deliver the best quality possible. Picturewise the quicktime Animation render looks just fine, but the pixel aspect ratio becomes 0,9.. no matter what I do and also I cant avoid the interlace flickers (aghhhh).

Why does Sony Vegas do this to me?

[Kevin Reinicke]

Dave,

thank you so much for your answer,

I shot in 23,976 and abt your question: I would rather like the video to be seen on a 4:3 screen with letterbox.

abt the framerate: for NTSC the vid is on its 1280×720 progressive timeline that I worked with and I render it out to 720×480 i and no matter what I do, Sony Vegas always gives me lower field first.

abt PAL: I never really got how to conform a file in sony vegas, so my rendering to 720×576 i PAL didnt used to look good. I opened to the final output (1280×720 p) in quick time pro und exported it out to PAL 720×576 i and it looks GREAT ! a very good conversion from 23,976 p to 25 frames interlaced. The file is upper field first though.

so now I have a NTSC version 720×480 i at 29,97 and lower field first

and

a PAL version 720×576 i at 25 and upper field first.

does that make any sense??

[Kevin Reinicke]

Veescope is for MAC only right?? Is there anything comperable for PC?

[Kevin Reinicke]

Tim,

as I said I liked the AAC codec better. I burned both a version with PCM and AAC on DVD and tested on different TV´s.

I dont know if that is normal. I showed it to the artists too and they liked the AAC Version better too.

[Kevin Reinicke]

No they didnt give me anymore info.

so AAC codec should be fine?? What you guys think abt this codec?

[Kevin Reinicke]

my worry is that I am kinda fooling the programm 😛

when I apply the broadcast color plugin the picture becomes a lot more pale (because I had a lot of saturated colors). so I put a brightness/contrast plugin right before the broadcast plugin and this kinda gives me the same look than before legal colors but this time in a legal range.

now I would be totally fine, if this trick wouldnt cause lots of holes in the vector scope image.

is there a way to test if this wouldnt cause distortion before sending?

[Kevin Reinicke]

Thank you Steve,

Image this was from a calibrated monitor,
Is it normal that you can find holes between the color range? (like on my pics?)

[Kevin Reinicke]

Devin,

thanxs for your answer. Yes these are the scopes from Sony Vegas.
Is it normal that you can find holes between the color range? (like on my pics?)