[Wayne Waag]

All I want to do is automate the strength slider at the radial blur tab.

Very easy. Open the Video Event FX window for Radial Blur. On the far right of Strength, click on the little icon that looks like 5 o-clock. That will open up a window at the bottom where you can add keyframes and change strength along the timeline.

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[Wayne Waag]

If you want it to look the same, you must add a levels FX filter and choose the Studio RGB to Computer RGB preset.

This is all you have to do. (1) For you timeline event, select the Event FX icon. (2) the Plug-In chooser window will open. Highlight “Sony Levels”. Then click on the “Add” button. Then OK. (3) The Video Event FX window will open. In the Preset box, click on the arrow to show all the presets and select “Studio RGB to Computer RGB”. Close the window. That’s it.

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[Wayne Waag]

First, let me say that I know nothing about the Elgato HD60. Here’s what I’d suggest. Import a clip into Vegas with project properties the same as your clip. If you are using Vegas Pro 13, it will ask you if you want to match clip properties. If so, enter Yes. Once on the timeline, zoom in so that you can advance frame by frame. This should tell you if you indeed have 1080 60P. If you see movement on each frame, then you have 1080 60P. If two frames are the same (duplicated) and then it moves, then the problem lies in your source clip. It is not uncommon for vendors to claim 60P, but in fact record only at 30P and simply duplicate frames. If that’s the case, I’d suggest you ask for a refund. Otherwise inside Vegas, reduce your frame rate to 29.97 and disable resample for your clip. You should see smooth playback.

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[Wayne Waag]

Most likely, it has to do with luminance levels. Most videos are designed to be shown on TV’s which have a luminance range from 16-235, zero being pure black and 255 being pure white. Computer screens, however, display full range luminance levels from 0-255. When you use VLC, it converts your TV video (16-235), to computer levels (0-255). When you import the same file into Vegas, it usually previews at TV levels or in Vegas terminology, Studio RGB and often appears somewhat washed out. If you want it to look the same, you must add a levels FX filter and choose the Studio RGB to Computer RGB preset. However, after editing when you render from Vegas, you must remember to remove that filter.

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[Wayne Waag]

One thing you could do to speed things along would be to first create a preset to your liking. Then using Vegasaur, select your legacy text events, and create a marker at each event. Then simply ctrl-right arrow to go to next text event, select, and apply the new preset. Not automatic, but it should be pretty quick.

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[Wayne Waag]

AFAIK, you cannot. This problem has been raised many times. You are pretty much stuck with changing them one by one.

Having said that, I wrote a macro awhile back that extracts legacy text into notepad. From there, you can use Vegasaur to create new titles using Text and Titles and change them however you like. Here is a demo.

https://youtu.be/WNkvc2Nwdos

I must admit, it’s probably not for the faint-hearted, but if you’re interested I’ll post a link to Dropbox where you can download the macro and try it. It really depends upon how many you have to convert. If it’s just a few, it’s much easier to do them one by one.

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[Wayne Waag]

Since you are going to be delivering on disc (assuming Blu-ray), the delivery format will be 1080 60i since the Blu-ray spec only supports progressive at 24P. Others may differ, but I’d suggest just shooting at 1080 60i as well and be done with it. It certainly is a lot easier avoiding mixed frame rates. As far as converting 60P to 30P in Vegas, it’s quite simple. Just set your project properties to 30P and make sure that you disable re-sample for the 60P footage. In such cases, Vegas discards every other frame so the result is 30P. You can certainly render interlaced from progressive footage but it will be slower. If you were to deliver for the web, then shooting progressive would make more sense. Perhaps someone else could offer an opinion.

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[Wayne Waag]

Is it about disabling resample?

Probably. Disable resample for those events and see if it’s better.

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[Aron Nordico]

From your screenshots (excellent), the main problem is that you are using the wrong Project Properties. You are obviously in PAL land. Your input is 50i, but your project properties are 60i, those used for NTSC. You need to change the project template to HD 1080-50i (1920 x 1080, 25.000 fps). That is most likely the main source of your problems.

Question, why did you choose HD 1080-50iYUV as the render template? That is a digital intermediate which will lead to huge file size. Do you want to use an external encoder such as Handbrake? If you want to do a final render directly from Vegas, you need to choose a delivery format such as MPEG-2 or AVC. Since you have interlaced source footage, you might want to choose something like MPEG-2, Blu-ray 1920×1080-50i, 25 Mbps video stream. Or do you intend to render for upload to something like Youtube? In that case, other templates would be more appropriate.

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[Wayne Waag]

Only if you use a lossless codec such as Magic YUV, UT Video, Lagarith, etc. You can use other intermediates such as Cineform, XAVC, etc. and re-render with a a minimal amount of loss. It just depends on how many times you re-render and whether the resulting loss has any practical significance to you. You can also re-render delivery formats such as MPEG-2 or AVC, but the loss for each re-render will be greater and thus not recommended. Again, it all depends on how much loss you are willing to live with.

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