HELP!!!

PH125 wrote on 12/6/2003, 10:25 AM
I'm doing a phto peresentation for someone's retirement. I had to scan over 100 photos, and I then saved them as PSD's. However, when I used the animated Pan/zoom, the preview windows shows the picture looking like crap, and wavy lines accross the picture as it pans/zooms. Some of these are old photographs, but I don't understand why they are turning out so carppy in vegas if they were fine in photoshop. Someone please help!

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BillyBoy wrote on 12/6/2003, 10:45 AM
How does it look rendered?

Zooming/panning smoothly depends on WHAT you're zooming and panning, what speed you use and how much you zoom in and the size of the source files to begin with. If the images contains a fine pattern in clothing for example, the same thing that can happen on television can happen... you'll get bad distortion because you simply can't resolve to that level. So if someone is wearing a loud suit that has a pattern of various shares and worse if there is high contrast between the various shades when you pan or zoom its going to look like crap. A little blur (.001 to .003) may help. It depends on the image, Every one is a little different so without seeing can't really suggest more specifics.
hugoharris wrote on 12/6/2003, 12:24 PM
To start, see if this thread helps:

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=224456&Page=0

Kevin.
Spot|DSE wrote on 12/6/2003, 12:29 PM
The pictures look like crap in Vegas and good in photoshop because:
A.Photoshop is a progressive scan display, as it should be.
B. Photoshop is square pixels, as it should be
C. Vegas displays interlaced media, as it should. To have porgressive scan display in VEgas, you need to set the project to progressive scan. Then the pix will look fine in Vegas. If you are rendering to avi for a video tape output, then you'll want the pix to stay interlaced. If you are rendering to mpeg for DVD delivery, you can stay progressive scan, even though the DVD player or television will interlace the images on display.