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Grazie wrote on 10/27/2004, 2:40 AM
Hmmm . .yes .. . interesting . .

I've got V5 and V4 open and in Preview I'm getting a lack of clarity. Maybe one needs to do a full render to confirm. I've done a RAM render - it hasn't improved. But yes. . Im keeping my eye out for this one.

Grazie
Grazie wrote on 10/27/2004, 2:47 AM
This is getting interesting ./ .

Within Pan/Crop and right clicking on the "F" frame, I get the Pop up menu. Selecting the various Horiz and Verts changes I get to go through something like 16:9 [ only 4:3 here ] then 4:3 with the sides letterboxed . . Now I really guess I MUST be doing doing something wrong - I really have to be .. Never seen this before .. .but I guess I could forget. I wonder if this happens in Track Motion and flipping there . .?

Grazie
Grazie wrote on 10/27/2004, 2:51 AM
I think I think . . that what we are seeing - the clarity thing - is in fact some "change" in the ratio aspect I flagged-up above . . I must say I haven't dealt with P/C at this Event level for sometime . . Could this being affected by the newer functions of TM? . . . What do I know . . ?

Grazie
vegemite wrote on 10/27/2004, 5:47 AM
I'm currently working on a horizontally flipped clip in V5 and adding a mask. I returned to it in something of a panic but it looks fine. So, no, no problems with this one (I hope).
johnmeyer wrote on 10/27/2004, 8:25 AM
I just spent about ten minutes with this. I am using NTSC, and I think you guys are using PAL, so you may have some specific issues there with PAL. I did, however, see some very subtle softening. I took a clip of a volleyball match, taken diagonally across the net. The mesh of the net provides a very nice resolution chart as it recedes into the distance. Also there are lines across the court, lettering on jerseys and so on.

There was definitely a very slight fuzziness to the flipped version of the video. It is subtle, but definitely there. I confirmed this by flipping, rendering to a new track, un-flipping the original, and then doing an A/B compare to an external monitor, both of still frames and of the running video.
StormMarc wrote on 10/27/2004, 4:53 PM
I should have clarified that I'm using NTSC. I will try the same clip in V4 and report back.

Thanks,

Marc
StormMarc wrote on 10/27/2004, 6:47 PM
Ok... here's the results of my test on the same clip.

Vegas 4 horizontal flip (event tool) = Blurry
Vegas 5 horizontal flip (event tool) = Blurry
Vegas 5 horizontal flip (track motion) = Blurry

Premiere/Canopus Storm (Mirror effect) = Perfect

This solved my problem but Vegas obviously has issue in this area. I'll report it to the team.

Thanks,

Marc