Matt Crowley
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The deinterlace setting only applies to the whole project. It can’t be set for individual events.
Do you see this ghosting on the DVD renders (interlaced output) as well, or only the WMV (progressive output)?
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Huffyuv, Lagarith and Camstudio codecs are no good for distributing your videos. The file sizes wil cause problems, and your users will need to install the appropriate codec.
These codecs should only be used for the actual capture and editing. You can render to formats like WMV or MPEG4/AVC, but you’ll probably have to keep the bitrates fairly high to retain detail.
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Lagarith and Huffyuv produce huge files, but you have to realise that they are lossless (or very nearly) and will retain the screen capture detail, whereas Xvid and the like have to throw away a lot of detail to keep the file sizes manageable.
The Camstudio codec is designed for screen capture and gives high quality video – again at huge file sizes. It’s most effective with solid colors rather than photographic type footage.
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Looks like I accidentally replied twice…
Re the strobing/ghosting, this is likely to be the result of the Blend Fields deinterlace method.
For scenes with fast motion, use the Interpolate method to deinterlace. That uses only one of the 2 fields for each frame so you get clean output with fast motion. The blend method simply blends together (merges) the 2 fields of the interlaced video to produce an output frame. Of course, with fast motion there is a bit of movement between the 2 fields so you get some ghosting.
The blend method usually gives better results than interpolate for low-motion footage, and it gives a higher resolution output because it’s using all of the input video data.
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If your DVD has to be a Video DVD to play in standalone hardware players (on TV sets) then you cannot render to HD. Just use the DVD Architect PAL Widescreen Video Stream preset for Mainconcept MPEG2 in Vegas to render the video, and then render the audio as AC3 format. These 2 files can be used in DVD Architect to create a video DVD.
If your source video is 25fps then there should be no ghosting/blending with the PAL presets.
An HD WMV file will probably take a bit of effort for a laptop to play back smoothly, but you can try it. Just use the WMV format HD 1080-25p preset.
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If your DVD has to be a Video DVD to play in standalone hardware players (on TV sets) then you cannot render to HD. Just use the DVD Architect PAL Widescreen Video Stream preset for Mainconcept MPEG2 in Vegas to render the video, and then render the audio as AC3 format. These 2 files can be used in DVD Architect to create a video DVD.
If your source video is 25fps then there should be no ghosting/blending with the PAL presets.
An HD WMV file will probably take a bit of effort for a laptop to play back smoothly, but you can try it. Just use the WMV format HD 1080-25p preset.
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You just have to pan your speaker output (either in software/Windows mixer or on speaker/amp controls) hard right so you don’t get any left channel tone output. Then remember to put the balance back to centre when editing/mixing…
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Remember to select the video events AND their associated audio before grouping, if you’re grouping multiple video+audio events.
If you click one of the events (audio or video) in a group, the other events in the group will be highlighted with a light blue border. This includes the default video-audio grouping when you drop a video that has an audio stream on the timeline.
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Have you tried disabling the “Enable HDV Scene Detection” in capture preferences (Prefs button in the Vegas capture window)?
I’ve never used the capture utililty, but that option is worth a try. If it works as expected, you should get a single large capture rather than lots of incorrectly split scenes.
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Pannig across or zoomin on a still image is a common technique knows as the Ken Burns Effect. It’s effective for adding a bit of life to still image sequences (slide shows), but watch out for sizzling horizontal lines and edges if your output video is interlaced (eg DVD).
As for text media “typing” effect, you can do this with the built-in text media generator using keyframes. Start with just the first letter of your title/caption, then add a keyframe and add the 2nd letter to the text, then another keyframe and the third letter… until you have the complete caption. It’s a bit laborious, so you may want to look at other titling plugins if you want to do this a lot.