[Owen Myers]

Q. Have you determine where the motion blur is coming from?
A. Motion Blur was reduced dramatically when switching to mpeg-2. So i believe at least some of it is in the rendering process.
Q. Are you sure it’s not in the source video? I remember you were shooting XDCAM 24p.
A. No. But we used a better than average camera for a reason. Operated by a professional camera operator with a full SteadiCam rig.
Q. What are your Vegas project settings?
A. 1440x1080x128, 24p
Q. Which project template did you use and did you change anything about it?
A. Not sure, where I would find project templates. So my answer is I don’t know and probably not.
Q. Is Vegas recognizing your footage as 24p?
A. How would I check that? All I do is set the project properties to 24p. Maybe it’s wrong of me to assume that’s all there is to it.
Q. What do the media properties say?
A. 1440x1080x128, 24p.
Q. Finally, what template are you rendering with?
A. Main Concept, mpeg-2. 1440×1080, 16:9, 10 million fixed bit rate. Left everything else alone.
Q. Did you use the DVD Architect 24p NTSC Widescreen video stream template and then render your audio separately using Dolby Digital AC3 like I said.
A. I always render audio seperately with the AC3 Pro. So I’ve got that. The DVD Architect 24p NTSC Widescreen is something I don’t know how or where to find it. In DVD Architect no matter what I do, I can’t seem to change the setting from 29.97. Except for when I optimize disc, I can change it to 23.9… (progressive) Maybe this is the missing step.

If it’s just the last answer that you can help with, I would be beyond appreciative.

Thank you for your time so far.

Owen

[Owen Myers]

With Animation, the rendering time for a 5 minute short was 10 hours.
With Photo, it was 7.
To render a standard mpeg-2 for architect takes 40 minutes.

There are a lot of visual cuts, because of all the sound cuts (ex. to drop a floor creak and insert roomtone). But nothing special at all. 1 video track. 9 audio tracks.

I don’t know what takes so long, but I guess it is what it is.

Thank you for your help!

Owen

[Owen Myers]

The source footage is from a Sony HDRFX7. Mini DV. The full HD tapes.
No FX. A thousand little cuts but nothing special.

Now I’m over the 7 hour thing, I just want the end result to be usable in ProTools.
– My first attempt, I set the video format to mpeg-2 in the Quicktime render. After I tried that, I tried to use just the rendered files in ProTools. No dice. I tried to render that file to DVD in Architect. It won’t even play in the Quicktime on my PC.
– Steve from Creative Cow told me to try the Animation or Photo jpeg Codec instead of mpeg-2.
– Is one better than the other?
– Do I just copy the rendered files onto a disc for ProTools or do I then render them to a DVD in Architect.

However I need to do it, I need a Quicktime movie in the end.

Thank you for any help!

Owen

[Owen Myers]

Thanks again for the advice on the settings for Quicktime Rendering.

I used the Animation Codec and just like mpeg-2 it is taking 7 hours to render a 5 minute project. And that’s on my fast quad core desktop. My slower dual core laptop wants to take 14 hours. How do I speed up this process? Or is there no speeding it up?

Thank you for any further assistance.

Owen

[Owen Myers]

You’re the man.

Thank you.

My 5 minute project took 7 hours with the mpeg-2 setting. That in itself was crazy to me. Even after that the image quality sucked.

Have a great day!

[Owen Myers]

If you don’t want to watch a whole tutorial…
1. Add another Video Track to your project. It will show up at the top, leave it there.
2. Where ever you want your Credit Roll, insert the Generated Media into the new video layer.
3. Design you Credit Roll however you like.
4. In the Credit Roll layout screen, there is a back ground color selector. (in the middle on the bottom) Slide the slider down to where you see a checker board. This makes the layer transparent, except for your Credits.

That’s it. I struggled with this one at one point. The key is that the transparent video track is on top of everything else. Once it’s in the mix, it will block your video as you found out.

[Owen Myers]

Thank you.

I’ve asked the forums before and they told me to use mp4.

I will be an mpeg2 man from now on.

Owen

[Owen Myers]

I have had an issue with blurry credit text and generated text. My solution there was to adjust the format for the generated text/credit to 1440 by 1080 to match my project resolution. It came out crystal clear. Right click over text and either dig into the properties or it may be in “Edit Generated Media”. Change the resolution so that everything matches your project or just use the highest reslotuion possible.

I had the same issue. I have a rediculous rendering computer and it caused me to scratch my head. Bottom line, it’s not how great your computer is, it’s how high your Generated Text reolution is set for.

[Owen Myers]

I’ve personally never had an issue with blurry Menu text, but I have had an issue with blurry credit text and generated text. My solution there was to adjust the format for the generated text/credit to 1440 by 1080 to match my project resolution. It came out crystal clear. If you can, right click over the Menu text and dig into the properties. Change the resolution so that everything matches or just use the highest reslotuion possible. It can never hurt.

[Owen Myers]

Thank you. I kinda figured that but time is of the essence and rendering 40 something takes on top of syncing the audio is just not doable. What I did as a short term fix is. Group the original audio/video with the new audio. And then with all 3 tracks selected I created subclips. Granted I need to drop in 2 pieces of media for each take, but they snap together and everything is synced. Once we cut down on the clips or I have a half day to wait for Vegas to render all the clips, I’ll do it. But for now this seems to serve the purpose.

Owen