Bad Quality Video

arem wrote on 10/3/2005, 8:59 PM
I just recieved an mp4 file from someone and they would like me to edit the content and put it together into a video. Well, the quality of the mp4 is severely lacking...looks a little like streaming media.

Anyway, my question is, can Vegas fix this at all? I came from Pinnacle Studio 9 and it did a pretty impressive job (especially for consumer software) of repairing some poor quality footage. Vegas has got to be capable of the same?

Thanks!
-Dan

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johnmeyer wrote on 10/3/2005, 9:05 PM
Vegas has got to be capable of the same?

It depends a lot on what the actual problems with the video happen to be. You'll need to describe the problem more thoroughly. If it is a problem with frame rate (less than 29.97, if it is NTSC), then Vegas can do a great job. If it is a problem with video noise, then Vegas has far fewer features than Studio. If it is a color or contrast problem, Vegas is 100x better than Studio.
arem wrote on 10/4/2005, 9:06 AM
Sorry for my lack of description.

The flow of the video (frame rate) is fine. Color and contrast is fine too. I'm not really sure what you mean by video noise...its not like grainy or anything, its just really blurry if you try to make it bigger than 320x320. Not out of focus blurry, but like streaming media blurry. Sorry, its kinda hard to explain, but I'm sort of getting the drift that I might be stuck with this.

It wasn't a particular effect I used in Pinnacle to make the video quality better, it just did it during render. I don't care how long this thing takes to render, it can be an entire week for all I care, I just want it to look decent on a TV...and I don't want to reinstall Pinnacle Studio. :) Thanks for all your help.

-Dan