Camera panning not resolved that great.

eightyeightkeys wrote on 7/27/2010, 4:07 PM
I rendered a bunch of movies in HD for my WD TVLive using Eugenias template for Vimeo rendering :
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/11/09/exporting-with-vegas-for-vimeo-hd/

Most of the scenes are beautiful, however, I have noticed that scenes where I have panned across a landscape (or anything really)...are not particularly well defined/resolved. It's as if the pixels are not quite "catching up" and therefore do not resolve in time.

Is this a factor of the camera (Canon HV30-shot in 1440 X1080) or is it a problem with the rendering setting ? That is, if you're panning landscapes a lot is "Interpolate" a better setting than "Blend Fields ? "

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Markk655 wrote on 7/28/2010, 5:13 AM
88Keys - There has been quite a bit written about this, do a search on "blend interpolate". If I recall there are some good threads in the pro section (and I think some posts were authored by musicvid)

Landscapes are difficult (especially closeups of grasses in the wind or oceans due to their motion) to convert i to p.


Alvin Smith wrote on 7/29/2010, 4:11 AM
The slower you pan, the better ... look at your original footage, closely.
(play orig tape thru HV30 HDMI->Out to LCD/HDTV)

Always be sure to turn all OIS/Image stabilization "OFF", when panning (to avoid "frame snapping").

The less complex and the less motion, the better ...

With the HV30 ... Always shoot in 1080P/30/60i ... and yes ... interpolation can help and using a 10% slow motion effect may also help.

= Al =
eightyeightkeys wrote on 7/31/2010, 4:28 PM
Thanks Alvin.

Yes, I've noticed that with the HV30, the slower the panning the better the result. I don't know why this would be so. Is this common to consumer level HD camera's ?

The 10% slow motion effect is a great idea except the slow motion in VMS10-P renders very poorly on my machine with stuttery jittery results. Again, I haven't received any answers as to why I'm getting such poor slo-mo results in VMS10.
MSmart wrote on 7/31/2010, 9:03 PM
Your cam has a CMOS imaging chip and produces what you see because of its Rolling Shutter. Explained here:

http://dvxuser.com/jason/CMOS-CCD/
eightyeightkeys wrote on 8/1/2010, 10:03 AM
Ahaaa ! That's very good. Thanks MSmart.