easier: either in Track Motion or Pan/Crop, right click the image and choose FLIP VERTICAL.

HI,

I have also some footage shot upside down (happens to be also with the Glidecam :), but have not yet rendered it.

My question is - do you have to be concerned about the frame order in this case, if working with flipped interlaced material?

How does Vegas process the source material when it's vertically flipped? One would assume that the line order is now reversed and any movement looks awful...

I guess that you must globally select some kind of removal of interlace (by any provided methods), or could you just change the flipped clip's properties by flipping it's fields "locally".

Please shed some ligt here - you more experienced (pro) Vegas users.

Christian

I use reverse flip all the time with 1080i with no issues (frame order or otherwise). It plays and renders just as smoothly in reverse as it does in forward.

Thats great, but what about PAL or NTSC? Is Vegas clever enough to handle these also correclty, without user intervention ???

Christian

Hi There

I can't remember where I got it from but I use a Plugin called Adam's Flip, the benefit with this plugin in Vegas, is that it is much much faster than using the Vegas alternatives.

Matt

First of all, if you have any question about whether field order has been inverted, here is a technique that will tell you absolutely for certain if the field order is backwards:

Field Order

Second, you asked about NTSC. I just took an NTSC DV clip, put it on the timeline, reversed the motion, and rendered using the standard NTSC DV template. I used the technique described in the above link and verified that the field order was handled correctly.

Believe me, we'd all have heard long ago if Vegas wasn't able to handle this correctly. I think you are definitely safe to just put the clips on the timeline, reverse them, and render them without having to do anything else.

Finally, I am well aware of problems that Vegas had in the past with a similar situation. Back around V4 or V5, if you used a velocity envelope and then had it not only slow down, but go backwards, the field order did indeed reverse. This was eventually fixed.

Here's a link to that old thread describing the problem (which as I just said, has been fixed):

Velocity envelope bug CONFIRMED

I can't remember where I got it from but I use a Plugin called Adam's Flip...

Adam's Flip Video Plugin For Sony Vegas

Mike

I'm not sure if this works in version 7 or earlier, but in Vegas 8 you can right click on the clip you want to flip and select it's orientation in the media properties. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

If you want to flip a bunch of clips at once, select the clips you want to rotate in the project media, right click, and turn them 90 degrees twice.

Maybe someone could write a nice script to do this or better yet, add it to Ultimate-S or Excalibur.