Bleeding Text when I render. Type-1 DV files?

washburn_av1611 wrote on 4/4/2001, 4:08 PM
Hi,
Here's my problem:
I captured my video with a digital video camera in 16:9
Widescreen mode. I've placed the video on a Video Track 2
in Vegas and I've placed a Generated Text media above the
video on Video Track 1. When I go to render the video in
NTSC DV (tried both widescreen mode and normal DV templates
at setting of "best), the text blurs and loses a great
amount of quality. If I render it as an uncompressed avi,
it looks fine. I've a lot of stuff, but nothing has
helped. I'm kinda desperate, because I need to produce
this movie very soon.
Also, I print to tape with a program other than Vegas
Capture. This program only accepts Type-1 DV avi's.
Whenever I produce a video with Vegas in DV template, I get
something other than type-1 DV files. How can I render a
type-1 DV movie?
Thank you very much.

Matt

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washburn_av1611 wrote on 4/5/2001, 4:22 PM
Hi,
Here's my problem:
I captured my video with a digital video camera in 16:9
Widescreen mode. I've placed the video on a Video Track 2
in Vegas and I've placed a Generated Text media above the
video on Video Track 1. When I go to render the video in
NTSC DV (tried both widescreen mode and normal DV templates
at setting of "best), the text blurs and loses a great
amount of quality. If I render it as an uncompressed avi,
it looks fine. I've a lot of stuff, but nothing has
helped. I'm kinda desperate, because I need to produce
this movie very soon.
Also, I print to tape with a program other than Vegas
Capture. This program only accepts Type-1 DV avi's.
Whenever I produce a video with Vegas in DV template, I get
something other than type-1 DV files. How can I render a
type-1 DV movie?
Thank you very much.

Matt
SonyEPM wrote on 4/5/2001, 5:20 PM
are you getting this to tape some way other than via
DV/1394? Like maybe playing back a DV avi full screen
through some MJPEG card and taking TV-out from your display
card? If so, try using Video Capture 2.0E for this- lots
more MJPEG support in that version.

If this isn't the case, please post more details-


washburn_av1611 wrote on 4/5/2001, 8:02 PM
I am getting the video through an 1394/DV card interface.
I'll try to tell you everything I am doing.

Video Setting for DV:
NTSC DV (720x480, 29.97 fps)
Field order: lower field first
Pixel aspect ratio: 1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen)
Resoultion Rendering quality: Best

I place the DV on Track 2. On Track 1 I insert a generated
text media (have even tried to match generated media
settings witht the DV settings). On the preview screen, it
looks fine. Then, I go to render and the text colors
change slightly and bleed into the video. In general, it
looks very unprofessional. I have tried making my own text
titles in Adobe Photoshop, but this same ugly rendering
process continues to occur. Uncompressed avi's look fine,
but this is not what I need. I'm thinking that it is just
the DV codecs that vegas uses (low quality or something).
It does the same thing even with DV not in Widescreen
mode. It did it with Quicktime and various other formats.
General quality loss. Now, I wouldn't mind a small amount,
but it has lost enough to make the whole work degrade
sufficiently. Well, thank you for the response, I've been
checking back frequently, because I need to get this done.

Matt
jdozz wrote on 4/5/2001, 11:43 PM
This is going to sound interesting but have you tried to
render your video using 'preview' quality. Everytime I
rendered my video using 'best' quality I had terrible
results. Once I changed to 'preview' I turned out some
great video clips with nice looking text. Just an idea.
SonyEPM wrote on 4/6/2001, 8:50 AM
If you haven't done so already, I encourage you to update
to Vegas 2.0d. This, in conjunction with the required
DirectX8 components, makes for better DV in general.

Direct8 installs a vastly better DV codec- its possible you
are using the DirectX6 codec, which was pretty lame-