Getting Lines with movement

dholt wrote on 10/2/2004, 1:08 PM

When I render my video using AVI Uncompressed and play it back I'm getting lines in the movement? I checked and the clips field ordr and it's lower field first.

Any ideas on how to get rid of this? Thanks

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Spot|DSE wrote on 10/2/2004, 1:32 PM

First, why are you rendering to uncompressed? That's not a common format to render to, you should be rendering to NTSC or PAL DV, depending on where you live in the world.

The lines are interlaced lines. You will only see these on a progressive scan display such as a computer, or if you have a television display that is progressive scan (very few are) then you'll see them there, too. Interlacing is how video is drawn on a television. Connect Vegas to an external monitor, or burn a DVD, play the video back on a 'real' television or display. You'll not see the interlacing.
See the All Things Vegas for more answers to this issue.
If you search this forum a little, you'll find hundreds of posts on the subject of interlacing, lines on a progressive scan monitor, and viewing progressive on a television monitor.

dholt wrote on 10/2/2004, 3:48 PM

Thanks Spot,
I'm ceating the video for web steaming and not DVD so I'm not sure if this makes a difference?

I've been away from using Vegas for awhile doing some other things besides editing and I feel like a rookie again. I started reading your book this afternoon so it's cool you answered my post. Thanks SO much it's really appreciated.

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/2/2004, 6:28 PM

If you are seeing horizontal lines in your streams, that means something isn't blending right. For fun, set the project properties to Progressive and render a stream from there, see what happens.
You'll see the artifacts in the ORIGINAL video, because it's interlaced at the camera, being displayed on the computer.