Crooked Video

MichaelS wrote on 7/26/2004, 4:24 PM
I have a video clip of a wedding ceremony that needs to be straightened (tripod not setup properly)...and no..it wasn't me. I've used "Event Pan/Crop" to enlarge it slightly, then rotate to the proper perspective. The problem comes following the render. Any movement in the clip results in "torn and jagged" edges around the subjects. Is there a method to accomplish this "fix" with a pleasing result?

Thanks

Comments

farss wrote on 7/26/2004, 5:11 PM
Try right click event, tick Reduce Interlace Flicker.
wcoxe1 wrote on 7/26/2004, 5:19 PM
That helps, but more is often needed. Any further suggestions? Especially any that don't
"blur" or "soften" the image excessively.
jaegersing wrote on 7/26/2004, 5:52 PM
You could try playing with the Blend Fields/Interpolate Fields settings under the Deinterlace options. Other than that, my only suggestion is to go kick the cameraman. It won't help the video, but might relieve some of the frustration!

Richard Hunter

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/26/2004, 6:01 PM
Use the tilt function on the TV to fix it. Most modern TV's have it. :)

Or, if they don't know much about electronics, tell them their TV must be slightly off level. ;)

Seriously, I don't think there is much you could do. Maybe deinterlace it & then tilt it back?
Spot|DSE wrote on 7/27/2004, 1:37 AM
http://www.vasst.com/training/tempdisplay.htm has some images that are processed. See if this helps you.
Using Force Resample, Reduce Interlace flicker, Sharpening, and a couple other tools, it's not too bad. Not as sharp as original, but no interlace artifacts either.
DGates wrote on 7/27/2004, 1:43 AM
If it was a static camera shot, you can cheat the footage a little. I just did this with a slightly crooked balcony shot at a wedding.

I took a screen grab, angled the church pillars properly, cut them out and made a png file, then over-layed them on the slightly crooked pillars. No one was the wiser, and it looked good.
MichaelS wrote on 7/28/2004, 5:55 PM
Just an update on how I dealt with this problem. I rendered the tilted video clip as a progressive AVI. Then, corrected the tilt in Vegas using Edit Pan/Crop. Rendered the corrected clip back to AVI and imported the corrected AVI back into the project. It's not perfect, but a heck of an improvement.

Thanks ya'll!