[Tim Neighbors]

Also, should I be rendering to PAL? This is ultimately going to the web, so I’m not sure it will matter.

[Tim Neighbors]

first thing I would do to this footage is to grab the ‘curves’ plugin and bump up the midranges. This is more of a luminance thing than a color thing, but I think this footage could use it cause their faces are little dark. If you bend the curve up a bit and then give it a slight “S” twist, grab the node and pull it to the left a bit, you can get slightly different ‘film’ qualities while brightening their faces a bit. Boosting the mids more gives it a bit of a glow. Just don’t go too crazy. Not sure a ‘glow’ is what the director wants.

[Tim Neighbors]

Perfect! Thank you!

[Tim Neighbors]

sounds great. How do I do I concatenate these avchd files (Canon T3i footage).
I tried dropping them on the timeline and rendering out an avc file with parameters that (to the best of my knowledge fit the source parameters)and it slowly starts recompressing the footage. and I tried rendering to a quicktime with MP4 encoding, and it just had an error and said it failed while dealing a codec.

I’m using Vegas Pro 10e. If this is the right approach, would you mind letting me know which template I should use …or what parameters should be set to?
thanks,
tim

[Tim Neighbors]

I resolved my problem and learned something new about Vegas in the process. When I was on my shoot, I switched from progressive to interlaced on the same tape, the captured without scene detection, so each tape was one large file. When I looked at the properties for each of my captured files, they register as either progressive or interlaced. Unfortunately one of the files was both but, since it has to be labeled as one or the other, Vegas had called that one Progressive (I presume because it began with progressive footage). So when the render hit interlaced footage from that source file, it mishandled it, treating it as Progressive footage.

solution: I rendered that entire source file out to an interlaced file and, from within my edit, I replaced the “progressive” file with the interlaced file (pointed it to the new file).

lesson learned: don’t switch between progressive and interlaced on the same tape unless you plan to capture with scene detection enabled.

[Tim Neighbors]

What John said. But don’t render as PAL if the client is in the US. -stick to NTSC DV. I’m sure John knows this but just wanted to clarify.

[Tim Neighbors]

How would you suggest rendering if you have Progressive and Interlaced footage mixed on the same timeline? It’s all HDV footage. Does it make any difference what the project properties are prior to render? The confusing thing about this is that the problem is not consistent. Some interlaced shots come out ok while others look like this. Should I render in Preview mode?

Thanks

[Tim Neighbors]

There are 2 different ways to pan-scan in Vegas. You can do it with the Track Motion that affects the whole track, and you can do it with the Crop tool on each event. I’m not sure how you are doing it, but if you first do your multicam edit, then expand out to multiple tracks, you should be able to use the track motion feature on that camera’s track.

If that doesn’t work, I’d do your pan and scanning in a separate project, render it out and bring it back in.

btw, if the widescreen footage was shot in HD, I’d crop the HD to 4:3 to match the other 4:3 rather than doing it vice versa. Cropping 4:3 SD to widescreen in post is pretty ugly..

hope that helps. good luck.

[Tim Neighbors]

Wow. thanks so much for taking the time to write this response! Theres a little more to my situation that I didn’t mention. I have a genetic disorder. Its a very common disorder called Hemachromatosis and as long as I take care of it it won’t cause me any problems. However, it my limited experience, I have not been able to get heath insurance because of this ‘pre-existing condition’. I thought that maybe a union would be a way around this. Otherwise, I fear that I may just be out of luck and left to fend for myself until I inevitably die cause I can’t afford to go to the hospital. …or until the Obama Reform bill goes into full effect in 2014 and I can finally get health insurance. 🙂 Sorry to turn this into a health care forum! Anything else I should know?

[Tim Neighbors]

Sorry. My initial post was unclear. it appears very ‘jaggy’ when there is motion. Some jagginess is expected with interlaced footage, but this is extreme and the interlaced lines appear very thick. It looks as if the odd and even fields are out of sync with each other by a few frames. I tried to attach a video still of the problem to this post, but it instead started a new post…so I don’t know what happened to that pic. …but it should be somewhere in this forum?