Michael West
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John – thanks for the advice. I wish I could get Vegas to open. Double click, I see it launch and nothing. Goes nowhere.
And there is no “old” driver. I’m using a z68 motherboard with the onboard video with Intel 4000 graphics. I do have an nVidia 570 card available but I’d prefer not to put that in. The CUDA encoding was good but wasn’t worth the extra power needed and the fan noise, which some don’t mind. Considering I’ve moved to Ivy Bridge and an 97-3770K CPU, I’m actually preferring to use that for encoding. And the program should work without having to resort to video card use.
Unfortunately I don’t have my old versions of Vegas before 0770 and don’t think they are available. I’m not going to upgrade to 13 now just to get it working again. I’ll try to follow your direction of reinstalling something to get it to work. Thanks again for your help.
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One thing to note – this problem happened before my CPU upgrade, I’m 95% sure of it. My video driver is updated to the latest version, which was required in order to get my dual monitor system working. s
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Reinstalling did the trick. In addition, my Vegas Pro was already registered so that wasn’t removed from my hard disk.
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Thanks Dave – no, I haven’t done anything that I could surmise which would cause that to happen. I just recall Windows updates and unrelated software. If reinstalling is the only solution, I’ll get to it. But like all software which requires activation, I get nervous reinstalling software, not being sure when and if my installs will be used up. In the past Sony has been very good (which Adobe has been the most brutal to deal with for me, by far.) I’ll let you know how it goes.
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FYI to others who may have been reading my posts on converting VHS to DVD/bluray.
I’ve just discovered a remedy to why my tapes are slanted with a pincushion-like effect. I was capturing video from the VHS to a DVR that recorded in a high quality bitrate MPEG (8,000 or 9,000). While it would have been preferable to go to AVI, it wasn’t an option and quality wise it didn’t matter too much. The sides were jittering a little but that is much a quality of VHS video.
I moved to the PC and was rendering using an internal video card at an even higher capture rate with minimum compression. For a reason I can’t explain, the reasonable good 3 foot AV cable I had was the problem. I purchased a heavy duty shielded AV cable for composite video (converter to s-video) and audio that was only 1.5 feet long and the problem seems to have been minimized significantly. There are still signs that the tapes are on their way out but the difference in the borders of the video being closer to the 4:3 square that it should be are quite noticeable. Hope this saves someone’s transfers.
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I have no idea what I did. I turned on deinterlacing in the preview window and rerendered the video also having the GPU turned on. The video looks much better and without all that terrible combing. I have no idea what is different.
I did notice a discrepancy between VLC player and other windows video players — VLC allows you to turn deinterlacing on and off (it was off.) Other players automatically try to deinterlace interlaced video – which is very interesting and I never knew that before. This means that previewing externally can provide misleading results unless you know for sure that your external video player isn’t deinterlacing your video on the fly.
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[John Rofrano] ” It’s is either in your project properties, your media properties, or your display properties.”
FYI, the screen shots are of what was rendered and played back using GOM or VLC player in Windows 7. It’s not a screen shot of the preview window. It’s being played back on my computer monitor. I’ve got a GTX 560 ti 448 with a Dell 24″ monitor and I am 100% sure it’s not limited to interlaced playback like the TV is.
Project Properties
https://s11.postimage.org/o8fvjj243/2012_12_18_22h41_12.pngMedia Properties
https://s8.postimage.org/3qzk9gx3p/2012_12_18_22h41_29.png
(the above was changed to smart resample and rerendering made no difference)
https://s10.postimage.org/i63y0b8kp/2012_12_18_22h41_35.pngGeneral for the clip states:
Video: 01:03:09.419, 29.970 fps interlaced, 720x480x12, MPEGRender Settings
https://s8.postimage.org/s1410uoph/2012_12_18_22h54_22.png
https://s13.postimage.org/g6tw95nyv/2012_12_18_22h40_55.pngI rerendered, setting the media properties on smart resample. The results are below, lots of combing:
https://postimage.org/image/piu6upllf/
PS – Many thanks on why the preview window looks terrible. Deinterlacing is off on the preview.
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John – understood and probably provided too much info. Trying to think through the problem like yourself and think about what could be, see whether potentially tracing through my workflow might solve the problem, etc. So far this has me stumped, not sure why the video would look like this. Thanks much for your insight, as always.
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John – thanks. I used “blend”. I rarely use interpolate since it throws away too much data, IMHO, and I don’t think it would solve this issue.
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Bob – thanks for your response. Aging could be the case for sure (these tapes range from 20-27 years old) and it appears I’m doing this not a moment too soon. Here are some examples of the actual tape:
https://i48.tinypic.com/34gsl09.png
https://i48.tinypic.com/1zq4hg7.jpg
As you can see, the videos are curving a bit, the top right curving in towards the left and the lower left also pushed inwards. That’s one problem in addition to the interlacing effect. The ones above are after Sony Vegas deinterlacing. Below is the original video with a few other issues:
https://i49.tinypic.com/a40kk8.png
https://i45.tinypic.com/dw53sm.png
The second picture is a problem I have with some tapes of this “rolling” effect of the horizontal border, which I think used to be called horizontal hold on many televisions. On occasion I’ll find these rolling into the picture as if something is fumbling with the tape, trying to get itself back on track reading smoothly.