Hello

JoeConnolly wrote on 8/7/2003, 8:36 PM

Hello all. I am new to Vegas and video production in general. I specifically got Vegas to stitch together my 3d graphics demo reel, hoping to place a soundtrack in as well. I am finding the interface quite straightforward but I know I am only scratching the surface. I have a problem I am cant seem to get around. The problem I have will probably seem noobish to you all but I would be grateful for any light you can shed.
I want to stitch together a series of image sequences. I am rendering out .tga image sequences from 3d studio max at 800*600 and outputting from Vegas at 740*480
But the rendered files don’t seem to have great resolution. In fact, they look like bad VCR recordings from a TV. I am setting the output quality to Best but it does not appear to help. I feel I am missing something simple but have no idea what it is .I have included a URL so that you might get an idea of what I mean. The image I don’t want (to the left) is actually a replica I built in Photoshop as I could not screen capture the windows media player. I have rendered out decent looking files but these have been uncompressed and are huge in file size. Is this the norm? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. http://homepage.eircom.net/~JOSEPHMCONNOLLY/JoeWeb/images/snowblind.jpg

Comments

theigloo wrote on 8/7/2003, 9:56 PM

So it looks fine in Vegas but when you render it looks bad?

How does it look when you RAM render? (highlight a region then hit shift+B. You may need to allocate more ram to Vegas by going to Options > Prefs.. Video tab then set a larger number for the RAM).

If that looks ok then my advice would be to "flatten" your work to an NTSC .avi file. Go to Tools>Render to new track. Then choose the NTSC DV template. You don't need to include audio - just the vid.

Once you have the new track, mute your original tracks (the no smoking sign on the track control bars).

If the rendered track looks good then you're set. Render that puppy to .wmv 3mbps.

Hope that helps.

theigloo wrote on 8/7/2003, 11:24 PM

One more thing: in the future - it is always more usefull if you give your post a meaninfull name.

It'll get you better responses and it'll help the next guy who has the same problem because he'll find it when he searches.

JoeConnolly wrote on 8/8/2003, 4:11 PM

Thanks a lot for the help theigloo.Things are working now as they should.I doubt i would ahve found the solution myself and you have saved me a lot of frustration.Thanks again.