Help! Poor Image on Preview and Render w/Multilayer

Telemed wrote on 4/26/2003, 8:09 AM

Hi All,

I'm working on a multilayered project in Vegas 4.0b running on a P4 2.0 machine, 768MB of RAM, 200GB 7,200 drive and XP home. The footage was captured via Firewire, and looks fine if I open a new job and load it on the timeline, or simply preview it in the Windows Media player. However, while creating my current project -- the video got buried beneath about eight layers on the timeline -- with graphics residing above. The video now looks badly defocused and blurred in both the preview window and the subsequent renders -- requiring a HEAVY sharpen filter just to make it viewable. I have tried everything I can think of, or have learned from the forums -- changing the deintelace settings, turning off blur, checking the codec settings in preferences. It seems crazy that by adding layers -- the image would degrade -- even on uncompressed AVI renders! Can someone PLEASE help? I have to get this project out the door in a few days.

BTW -- I have created dozens of projects successfully in Vegas -- This is the first time I am experiencing any difficulty. I am a former Discreet edit* trainer!

Thanks,
Tmed

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Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 4/26/2003, 5:14 PM

I have tried 8 titles above a video clip and mine looked fine, with no blur.
Are your graphics alpha channels clean, is the tranparency set to full?

Telemed wrote on 4/26/2003, 7:08 PM

Yes, I even removed all of the other layers, including all of the graphics, in that job. The image is still degraded in preview and render. Then, I opened the same original source DV file in a new job, and it looked fine and exported correctly! It seems that somehow something in that job may have become corrupt. Unfortunately, I have put almost 100 hours into that edit, and it would take at least half that long to recreate it in a new job -- with a deadline fast approaching. This is absolutely bizarre. The same DV clip previews and exports differently in two different jobs on the same machine with the same settings!

I wish that Sonic Foundry tech support was available on the weekends and evenings, as most production folks do not keep bankers hours. Given that fact thet one must pay for tech support -- that would seem like even more of a logical incentive.

Tmed