Matt Crowley
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There’s not much you can do to improve poor or small footage, but you might be able to work around the issue with some creative editing.
For example, you could have several small clips playing at the same time, spread around the screen (look at the help for “track motion”) so that you don’t have to stretch them.
You could also have a sort of montage with a background slideshow of still photos (read up on “ken burns effect”) and a few of the small video clips as picture-in-picture overlays (track motion again), and the lower quality won’t be so obvious because there is more to look at on screen at the same time.
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There seems to be a hard limit of 12.5% (1/8x) for both the X/Y scale and the pan/crop window zoom. If you need to shrink a graphic more than 8x, then it looks like you need to do that outside Vegas.
You can probably use a combination of pan/crop and track motion if you need a smaller image.
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“Seconds per keyframe” specifies the interval between reference frames in the video compressing/encoding process. All the other frames are encoded as the difference between the keyframe and the current frame, so generally the more keyframes, the more accurate the encoding… but the more space the video data takes up. Don’t fiddle with these settings until you understand more about the encoding process.
What you are seeing in that frame-grab you linked to is “blending”, which is how Vegas creates “in-between” frames when de-interlacing or converting frame-rates.
If you don’t like this deinterlacing method, you can choose “interpolate” for deinterlacing in the project properties.
If this is the result of frame-rate conversion (eg using 25fps footage in a 30fps project) then you can try disabling resample in each video event’s properties. You might get slightly jerky motion though.
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I think CineForm is stored in a AVI container format in Windows, so choose AVI as the Render As format, then you should Cineform HD under that.
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Try right-clicking the file in the Project Media view and selecting Replace. This will let you specify a file to use instead of the original, and will keep any timeline editing.
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Did you get a satisfactory render (output video) after all that? WMV might not be great for video uploads. The normal way is to render your video to the Sony AVC format, and use one of the Internet presets.
If you’re uploading to Youtube, then try Vegas’s built-in Youtube uploader, which takes out all the guesswork. Just click “Upload to Youtube” on the Project menu.
I think the Yeti mic is USB only, so there’s no chance of plugging it into a camcorder. It’s only designed to connect to a computer for direct recording. You need some sort of video mic to suit the camera, probably one that uses “plug power” and a 3.5mm jack connector.
Another possibility is to use something like the Yeti mic to record the audio to your computer at the same time as you record video onto tape. Then you need to sync up the audio in Vegas, but this can get tricky…
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It looks like your source video is 25fps, but your project is set to 24fps. Try setting your project properties and render properties to 25fps (25p), and the transitions might work better.
If there is a lot of motion (and this probably includes the transitions) then you can try changing the deinterlace setting (project properties) to Interpolate instead of Blend. Blend gives better vertical resolution but you can get ghosting if there is lots of movement.
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You should be able to restore the original Vegas screen layout from the main menu: View > Window Layouts > Default Layout.
The render settings are almost independent of project settings. You can have your project set up for 320×240 and still render to any size, even HD.
If you’re going to use 320×240, then the project properties should have pixel aspect of 1.0 and field order of “progressive”.
It makes sense to render at the same size, so make sure you choose a suitable render preset, or modify the settings to suit your project.
For video site uploads to youtube etc, use the “Sony AVC” render type and choose the nearest preset – probably “Internet 320×240-30p”. That will give you fairly modest file sizes at reasonable quality. It sounds like you mistakenly rendered to an uncompressed AVI file.
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Are you seeing this blurring on the preview or in the rendered output?
If it’s only on the preview, then try setting the preview quality a bit higher and see if that makes a difference. The “draft” and “preview” quality levels make a lot of compromises in the preview image quality to speed up the preview.
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The trick is to right-click on the image in pan/crop and select “match output aspect”. This will let you position the image anywhere on the video.
The pan/crop tool adjusts the position of the video frame relative to the source image, not the image relative to the video frame.