[Ted (tr) wilkinson]

yet another Vegas/Epic restart seems to have helped the issue. I have a render going now at a reasonable speed so we’ll see…

[Ted (tr) wilkinson]

Did I say interlace? I meant telecine. I was thinking of the interlace patterns with the particular pulldown patterns, knowing that the 4th frame is where you switch back into the new sequence (or something like that)

I’ve just recreated all the work I’d done since switching over in Veg 8, looks like I’ll be here until 9.0a appears.

[Ted (tr) wilkinson]

That was my last resort. when I have some time I’ll do some samples in both versions so you can see what I mean. since it’s hitting on the 4th frame it must have to do with interlacing.

hope 9.0a arrives soon…

[Ted (tr) wilkinson]

That was my last resort. when I have some time I’ll do some samples in both versions so you can see what I mean. since it’s hitting on the 4th frame it must have to do with interlacing.

hope 9.0a arrives soon…

[Ted (tr) wilkinson]

I will look that over – but is it specific to Vegas 9? I don’t have this issue in Vegas 8, so it must be due to the new version, right?

[Ted (tr) wilkinson]

Yeah, size isn’t really a factor, I have a 500GB drive to play with and I’m probably going to end up with about an hour of shots I want to correct. Once I get them back into Windows I have about 3TB, so I’ll just keep the huge files uncompressed until I go out to mpeg-2 for DVDs. I just have to figure out what we might do if we want to run the whole movie from a file rather than DVD at a screening, just have to do something that isn’t too high a bitrate that it will start stuttering on playback 🙂

[Ted (tr) wilkinson]

Lance –

Thanks, I will try that too. What I did for an experiement was render uncompressed mov which is huge, but looked identical in an A/B on the Vegas timeline. I then put these directly into Motion and did the SmoothCam process, then exported those out in QT uncompressed. The results back in Vegas (Thank god for 4GB thumb drives…) look like 98% as good as the originals, which I’m very happy with.

I’m trying to just do the same shot over umpteen times until I find the best way, then I’m going to do a mass render out of all the shots in the film that aren’t on a tripod and do all of them on the mac when I’m at work (I have lots of downtime there)

Will post results…

[Ted (tr) wilkinson]

A followup with the MXF/IMX thing. I made the renders in Vegas fine, but when I put them on the mac, FCP says they’re not recognized. I did some looking and see I need an MXF component for QT – but the ones I see are $400 and up! Is there a free or sub-$100 solution? I’m a broke student that just shelled out for the MacBook Pro and Final Cut 2 Studio the school requires and money wise I’d have to just live with some shaky shots before I spend another $800 right now (The one I found was $400 each for import and export)

[Ted (tr) wilkinson]

So when the IMX/MXF goes into the apple programs, they’ll want to render them as QT. What is the best path back into Vegas, leave the MOV files?

luckily I’m shooting full frame anamorphic for 2.35 masking, so in Motion I can do vertical corrections without having to zoom in at all.

I’m assuming as long as I make sure I have the right project settings and select “none” for compression that I’ll have the best posible outcome? Right now taking the AVIs I’ve managed to improve what I am getting to the point where they look like slightly contrasty dupes that you might expect from optical work in an old movie lol.

It’s not horrible, but when I A/B in vegas I can definitely notice some quality loss, but on their own it’s not super horrible – however when we’re on a 25 foot screen I’m betting it will be a different story lol.