How do I handle this texture for encoding??!!

kentwolf wrote on 4/10/2004, 7:43 PM
I have a scan of a paper program I am using crop and scan to make it readable on the screen. All works OK. No problem.

On the first page of the program (it's black text, images, on a tan piece of paper), there is a dotted, almost newspaper-ish side bar pattern. The intent is that it looks sort of grey.

On the Vegas external monitor preview (best-full), all looks terrific, just like desired.

After encoding to a DV avi file, the small-dotted pattern looks very distorted (black zig-zags) until you move of closely to it. Then all looks OK.

How can I handle this pattern to look not-distorted for the encode?

I do not understand how it can look perfect on the external preview, but encodes poorly. Again, this distortion is only when viewed far away (full page view). After I key frame it to zoom in closely, all looks just fine.

This really has me stumped.

Thanks for you help!

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 4/10/2004, 8:00 PM
Try:
Reducing contrast
Using Media filter/light noise reduction
.002 Gaussian blur
and/or all of the above.
kentwolf wrote on 4/10/2004, 9:46 PM
Just to note, I already did have .001 gaussian blur, however, I will experiment with more blur as well as contrast.

The hard part about it is that you can't tell how it turned out until render.

Thanks!
kentwolf wrote on 4/10/2004, 10:18 PM
Turns out the Magic Final Solution for this situation was to reduce the image resolution (72 ppi).

The other suggestions just could not help. Resolution reduction did.

Thank you very much for your suggestions. They will be placed in my Master Archive. :)
Hunter wrote on 4/11/2004, 1:30 AM
A quick way to check render is to highlight a small section (3 to 5 sec) that you're have problems with, then "selectively pre-render". Beats rendering the whole file.

Hunter
PeterWright wrote on 4/11/2004, 1:50 AM
Render to Ram is even faster - very useful for short sections.
kentwolf wrote on 4/11/2004, 1:53 AM
>>..."selectively pre-render"...

I figured that out pretty quickly. :)

With respect to rendering to RAM, I have done that on occasion, but the external monitor preview does NOT show what is actually transcoded. Preview, however invoked, looks OK. The final AVI file does not.

This is the first case of me ever having to question the external preview. It looks to be an actual transcoding issue.

Thanks everyone!
TorS wrote on 4/11/2004, 2:11 AM
kentwolf
If it's intended to look sort of grey - can you overlay some solid colour on that part of the frame to make it look real grey?
Tor
kentwolf wrote on 4/11/2004, 2:09 PM
>>...can you overlay some solid colour...

Believe it or not, I thought of that too (honest!), however, I was going to do it through Photoshop.

It wouldn't have worked.

Resolution reduction fixed the whole thing. :)

Thanks for the idea though!