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Just got our BLAZING-FAST new systems set-up (Win XP, 3.06 GHz, S-ATA, etc.) to run V4. At first blush, I was thrilled!
The first project I edited (DV-captured video, edited & finished in V4) and burned to DVD-R went very well. (A minor artifact issue on a few of the layering effects, but that's another thread ... see "sparks" thread to help me with that!)
I decided to convert some of my old analog (M-JPEG edited) files over to MPEG-2 using V4, so I could burn/archive them to DVD.
AAAAHHHHHHH!!! Problems!
The conversion & render seemed to go fine, and when I view them ON THE PC as MPEG-2 files, they look fine. When I burn to DVD, and WATCH on the PC, they still look okay. When I watch the SAME DISC on a stand-alone player (connected to a normal TV) I get the weirdest "ghosty-trails" (sort of looks like the "mouse-trails" you can turn on in Windoze if you have trouble following your pointer) whenever anything moves! (non-moving subjects look fine) What is the deal????
I tried taking one of these old projects FROM TAPE, and capturing through the DV cam, then rendering out to MPEG-2, burning to DVD, etc. SAME PROBLEM - not quite as bad, but still there.
Since the video looks fine on the PC-monitor, but has the "ghost-trails" on an analog TV, I am suspecting this is some sort of "interlacing/field-order" issue? (BTW, the projects were originally produced in Ulead MSP.)
I am not sure even where to START looking for a solution. I am a producer/editor (from the bad old analog days) and "tweaking codecs" is NOT my forte'.
If anybody has any insight into this problem, I would LOVE to hear it ... especially any similar stories.
BTW - Overall, I LOVE working in Vegas! I got accidentally hooked three months ago when I decided to give it a whirl for a test project, and now I am a TOTAL CONVERT!
PLEASE HELP! I've got bounties to chase!
- Spike
- - - - - - - - - -
See you space cowboy ...
Just got our BLAZING-FAST new systems set-up (Win XP, 3.06 GHz, S-ATA, etc.) to run V4. At first blush, I was thrilled!
The first project I edited (DV-captured video, edited & finished in V4) and burned to DVD-R went very well. (A minor artifact issue on a few of the layering effects, but that's another thread ... see "sparks" thread to help me with that!)
I decided to convert some of my old analog (M-JPEG edited) files over to MPEG-2 using V4, so I could burn/archive them to DVD.
AAAAHHHHHHH!!! Problems!
The conversion & render seemed to go fine, and when I view them ON THE PC as MPEG-2 files, they look fine. When I burn to DVD, and WATCH on the PC, they still look okay. When I watch the SAME DISC on a stand-alone player (connected to a normal TV) I get the weirdest "ghosty-trails" (sort of looks like the "mouse-trails" you can turn on in Windoze if you have trouble following your pointer) whenever anything moves! (non-moving subjects look fine) What is the deal????
I tried taking one of these old projects FROM TAPE, and capturing through the DV cam, then rendering out to MPEG-2, burning to DVD, etc. SAME PROBLEM - not quite as bad, but still there.
Since the video looks fine on the PC-monitor, but has the "ghost-trails" on an analog TV, I am suspecting this is some sort of "interlacing/field-order" issue? (BTW, the projects were originally produced in Ulead MSP.)
I am not sure even where to START looking for a solution. I am a producer/editor (from the bad old analog days) and "tweaking codecs" is NOT my forte'.
If anybody has any insight into this problem, I would LOVE to hear it ... especially any similar stories.
BTW - Overall, I LOVE working in Vegas! I got accidentally hooked three months ago when I decided to give it a whirl for a test project, and now I am a TOTAL CONVERT!
PLEASE HELP! I've got bounties to chase!
- Spike
- - - - - - - - - -
See you space cowboy ...