I have the Digitial Juice Videotraxx libraries (set 1) and have used them successfully on several projects. In my latest project I have used quite a few clips from the libray. My client is an Ocean education facility and I have used quite a few of the libraries clips or ocean/beach/animals etc etc.
My standard workflow is to simply load the clips directly onto the timeline without using their product (Juicer 2) to render them to a DV AVI file. My reasoning is that Vegas can handle that just as well. The files come up in Vegas as being Motion Jpeg / Upper field first / NTSC. They preview pretty well too.
However the finished renders exhibit problems with <some> of the clips. This problem is evident both when doing a PTT of the final AVI and also after rendering to MPEG and viewing on a DVD.
It's a little difficult to describe... but I find myself uttering the words that I have seen mentioned many times in the past <gasp>- Tthese clips seem to be "jittery".
The fact I see this when these clips are rendered to AVI means (to me anyway) this is not an issue to do with bit-rate and the like. It's almost as if the field order is maybe wrong.
So... on a couple of test clips I changed the field order properties of the clip to be Lower Field and then Progressive. I rendered these to standard NTSC DV AVI (lower field first) and checked on my monitor. The progressive one actually looked the best of the lot... but still unacceptable.
I then decided to do it by the book and to use their Juicer software to render the original files to NTSC DV AVI (Lower Field).
This worked great.
So... I have a soilution.. but.. I am wondering why I cannot get the native files to work directly in Vegas without having to render them first. I would prefer to use the original files and to have Vegas do all the work. I can live with this solution... but... has anyone else got any ideas as to why this isn't working the way I think it should?
Thanks
-Liam
My standard workflow is to simply load the clips directly onto the timeline without using their product (Juicer 2) to render them to a DV AVI file. My reasoning is that Vegas can handle that just as well. The files come up in Vegas as being Motion Jpeg / Upper field first / NTSC. They preview pretty well too.
However the finished renders exhibit problems with <some> of the clips. This problem is evident both when doing a PTT of the final AVI and also after rendering to MPEG and viewing on a DVD.
It's a little difficult to describe... but I find myself uttering the words that I have seen mentioned many times in the past <gasp>- Tthese clips seem to be "jittery".
The fact I see this when these clips are rendered to AVI means (to me anyway) this is not an issue to do with bit-rate and the like. It's almost as if the field order is maybe wrong.
So... on a couple of test clips I changed the field order properties of the clip to be Lower Field and then Progressive. I rendered these to standard NTSC DV AVI (lower field first) and checked on my monitor. The progressive one actually looked the best of the lot... but still unacceptable.
I then decided to do it by the book and to use their Juicer software to render the original files to NTSC DV AVI (Lower Field).
This worked great.
So... I have a soilution.. but.. I am wondering why I cannot get the native files to work directly in Vegas without having to render them first. I would prefer to use the original files and to have Vegas do all the work. I can live with this solution... but... has anyone else got any ideas as to why this isn't working the way I think it should?
Thanks
-Liam