Bad quality with darker colors

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Musicvid wrote on 5/24/2018, 6:24 PM

Yes, and if you can replace the red with another color, it "may" look a little better. because you will have eliminated ONE of the pitfalls of rendering a generated image at 4:2:0 chroma subsampling. That is one of "several" suggestions I made, that taken together "may" have some overall effect on output sharpness. Best of luck.

It would be better to upload to a cloud service like Dropbox, OneDrive and so on, the forum software seems to screw it up.

If you will actually do this, I will graciously provide an example.

Charly wrote on 5/24/2018, 7:21 PM

If you will actually do this, I will graciously provide an example.

I think it is sharp enough as it is, thank you. I don't have a lot of experience using generated images in videos, so I was not aware of this issue. Thank you very much for your suggestions, most of which I have followed (I resized the image to be 2000x1552 with black bars around it, I added a Sharpen filter set to 0, I had already set the rendering quality to best and I adjusted the bitrate).

Musicvid wrote on 5/24/2018, 8:13 PM

Ok, here is a quick-and-dirty test using exactly the steps I outlined. Rendered in HB with Animation Tune following Sony YUV intermediate.

Tutorials on using Secondary CC are in your program and online.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/tutorials/

The black on blue can likewise be cleaned up, but in that instance, the culprit is obviously aliasing, but not chroma subsampling.

NickHope wrote on 5/25/2018, 1:45 AM
-- Add a Sharpen filter set to 0 on the still event. Sounds counterintuitive, but the type font edges will perk right up.

This was changed in VP14. Sharpen no longer does any sharpening when the value is 0.

Musicvid wrote on 5/25/2018, 8:30 AM

I tested it yesterday on 14, didn't see a difference, and passed it off to worsening vision ;?)

Maybe they just shifted minimum sharpen up to 1.

In a lot of things video, 0 is a value, iow [0 != (null)]