Matt Crowley
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I tried to find a JPEG quality option a while ago, but there doesn’t seem to be any control over the image sequence render quality.
In the internal preferences, there is a setting for “JPEG save quality” but that only affects snapshots of the preview window.
The Image sequence PNG output is lossless, so use that (or TIFF, also lossless) if you need maximum quality or transparency – good for titles or graphics.
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Are you by any chance using the “real time audio render” feature, instead of the normal “render as…” ? If you have 10 mins of audio on the timeline, then the realtime render will take 10 mins (or slightly more).
A normal audio-only render should only take seconds, like Reaper and Soundforge. I use Movie Studio 10 and even on an old machine it’s only a matter of seconds to render several minutes of audio out to WAV.
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53C is not very hot for a CPU under load. Vegas will usually keep the CPU loaded to near 100% during render, but you don’t really need to worry unless the temperature gets much above 70C – the safe limit varies between processors I think.
Water cooling or even a better air cooler will help, but your temperature is not high enough to worry about.
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This is because of the way Vegas handles panning. The default pan behaviour is called “Add Channels” and its effect is to increase the per-output-channel level of hard-panned tracks by 6dB. If you have mono (or split stereo) tracks, you end up with both source channels added into the left or right output, and therefore massive clipping with hot source audio. Actually this also happens on normal stereo tracks too.
One solution is to change the pan mode. Just right-click on the pan slider on the affected track(s) and select “Balance (0 db Center)”. That behaves more like a hi-fi stereo balance control – as you pan towards the left, the right channel gets reduced in level (and is muted at 100% left pan), while the left channel is not affected.
Search for “Audio Panning Modes” in the Vegas help for details of the different pan modes.
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What do you mean exactly by “destroy” the Canon clips? Can you post a screenshot or a sample clip? Is the Vegas output bad or is it just the youtube playback that has issues?
I have done test clips in Movie Studio Platinum 10 using 25i AVCHD and 50p GoPro type footage in a 720-50p project and both video types came out fine – no ghosting or noticeable quality loss.
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You can download all the full product installers from the Sony site: https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/updates
You’ll need your serial number etc to activate the software after installation.
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One other thing to try on the Sony AVC render is disable GPU rendering. It might only apply to the video encoding, but it’s worth a shot. Go to the custom settings dialog for Sony AVC and enable the “Encode on CPU even if GPU is available” checkbox on the video tab before rendering.
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I have Movie Studio Platinum 10, and can change the MP4/AAC bitrate and sample rate as I wish without any error, for both the Sony AVC and the MainConcept AVC output formats. If you have only tried one of those, then try the other as well. I think they are a bbit different between Movie Studio 10 and 11 though.
I wonder if you have a problem with the codec installation or something. Occasionally folks have issues with other software (particularly codec packs) damaging or replacing the Vegas supplied codecs. Maybe there is a bug with this in version 11…
Incidentally, with a preset like Sony AVC Internet 360p, the ausio only accounts for about 6% of the output file (128kbps audio and 2Mbps video).
Steve, Movie Studio Platinum versions allow quite a bit of render format customisation, but the basic Studio version limits you to the presets I believe.
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There are only 2 deinterlace settings built into Vegas: Blend and Interpolate.
Blend will simply merge the 2 interlaced fields, and can result in “ghosting” where there is fast movement.
Interpolate will throw away one field, and make up the missing lines in the other field, which means you lose some vertical resolution.
If you need better deinterlacing, you need to look at plugins or an external deinterlacer.
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What are your project and render settings? If they are HD 1080 60i like your source, the problem is most likely to be your media player not doing proper deinterlacing. Make sure you haven’t accidentally disabled playback deinterlacing in VLC, or try a different player.
Don’t worry about seeing interlacing lines in to Vegas preview, unless you are actually rendering to a progressive (i.e. not interlaced) format. It’s just a preview, and doesn’t do deinterlacing.