If I take a five second clip, change opacity to 98%, and then write to output file, I get ghosting around portions of the video that move.

To troubleshoot, I completely uninstalled VF2.0, then uninstalled DirectX (using DirectXBuster), then reinstalled Windows, then reinstalled DirectX 8.1. I then re-installed VF 2.0.

No improvement, no change.

I then played around with various render settings and found that if "Video Rendering Quality" is set to either "Draft" or "Preview" I do not get the ghosting. If it is set to "Good" or "Best" I get the ghosting.

I don't remember seeing this problem before, and it seems like a bug. I would think that a simple render (I only changed opacity, and I only did that to force VF to use the render codec rather than simply copy the file) would not degrade the video so drastically.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there something else I should check?

I am running Win98SE. I am running VF 2.0c (Build 125). I ran DirectX diagnostics, and they reported no problems.

One thing I did note that is unusual about the clip I am using is that its media properties list it at 30 fps instead of 29.97 fps. Thinking that this might be a problem, I tried again with video captured in VF that is at 29.97 fps. Same problem.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

John