Cropping and picture sharpness

mxt wrote on 7/26/2007, 12:01 AM

When I crop a scene in my video the picture quality understandably is not as sharp. I tried playing with the sharpness adjustment but did not like the results. Any suggestions on how to improve the picture quality would be appreciated.

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ritsmer wrote on 7/26/2007, 12:32 AM

If your original clips are a little noisy - and this noise is amplified by the cropping - then the filter "Neat Video" from http://www.neatvideo.com/ (They have a free trial version.)
can do stunning miracles.

mxt wrote on 7/26/2007, 10:21 AM

The original is fine, just looses sharpness when cropping. How do I use neat video to adjust an event?

ritsmer wrote on 7/27/2007, 11:40 PM

Once you have installed the plugin, it works like any other FX - i.e. you find it in the list after pressing "Event FX" in the lower right corner in the clip on the timeline.
Neat then asks you to define a rectangle of your clip that should have no moving parts or any colour change - and scrutinizing this Neat can define a filter to remove whatever minimal digital noise there is in your clip.

mxt wrote on 7/30/2007, 2:25 PM

I tried using it but didn't help much. I think after you crop a clip, and you loose some sharpness. There isn't much you can do about it. Looks like my clips are fairly noise free. Thanks for the help anyway.

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/31/2007, 3:56 AM

Avoid digital zoom as much as possible, while filming or in the editing process, because it always causes quality loss.
Cropping in Vegas is preferably reserved to high-res still images.