I need help, please!

RubyTuesday wrote on 8/22/2005, 8:13 AM

I have a 30fps scene in Vegas that keeps going in and out from sharp to fuzzy. The original footage was fine, as was the timeline edit. But now, for some reason, when I view either the timeline edit or the original footage, it's sharp for a few seconds, then fuzzy, then sharp, back and forth. Also, it looks the same on a tv, so it's not the computer monitor. I must have changed some setting somewhere in Vegas, but I can't find where. Can someone please help me? Thank you.

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Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/22/2005, 8:45 AM

There's nothing that I can image that would affect the original footage. It's either sharp or it isn't.

How are you viewing the original footage that now appears to be unsharp?

filmy wrote on 8/22/2005, 8:49 AM

Have you checked the preview quality? If you have it set on low it will look fuzzy, more so if you have added any effects. Try setting it on Best and see if that was/is it.

Chienworks wrote on 8/22/2005, 9:17 AM

It sounds like it might also be a frame rate mismatch. If the project frame rate is set slightly different than the media frame rate then the amount of resampling and frame blending will vary in a cycle as time goes by. It would have to be an uncommon rate though. 30fps/24fps would cycle in and out 4 or 5 times per second. To get a cycle that lasts several seconds the rates would have to be something like 30fps/29fps.

RubyTuesday wrote on 8/22/2005, 10:23 AM

Frame rate mismatch sounds like it might be it. There are no FX plugins selected and the original footage is fine.
How would I go about checking and correcting the frame rate mismatch? Thank you.

Chienworks wrote on 8/22/2005, 11:28 AM

Compare the media properties to the project properties and see if they match.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/22/2005, 12:30 PM

... when I view either the timeline edit or the

What did this mean, then?

RubyTuesday wrote on 8/22/2005, 1:55 PM

Yes, but the original footage wasn't fuzzy a couple of weeks ago, and neither was the .veg file, both of which I viewed many times.

Liam_Vegas wrote on 8/22/2005, 2:15 PM

I think the confusing thing is that you said above both the original and the veg file is going fuzzy and then you contradicted that and said the original is not going fuzzy. Which is it?

RubyTuesday wrote on 8/22/2005, 2:36 PM

The original and the .veg are BOTH in-and-out fuzzy now...but NEITHER one was fuzzy before. Any ideas?

winrockpost wrote on 8/22/2005, 2:45 PM

Tried rendering to a new track ?

Liam_Vegas wrote on 8/22/2005, 2:47 PM

You said.... "There are no FX plugins selected and the original footage is fine"

So I guess you didn't mean to say that?

Anyway... I'm at a real loss as to what to suggest... I would go with what Chienworks suggested above and verify what the media properties are - and what the project properties are. If there is a difference then that may explain your problem.

Avanti wrote on 8/22/2005, 3:28 PM

Try starting a new veg in vegas, import the captured clip in question into that project, then view it on the timeline.

filmy wrote on 8/22/2005, 10:42 PM

Take it step by step -

Open the "original" footage in a player - Media Player Classic or Windows Media Player for example. Play it - how does it play? is it fuzzy? Does it go in and out of "fuzzy"? If it plays fine that it more than likely is fine and that means it is somehting in your project settings.

Now take the footage, provided it is really ok, and put it on a new project's timeline. Make sure your project is set fo whatever you have in the old project. For a second I will guess it might be basic DV in and basic DV out - so if that is the case make sure your field settings on the media and project match. If you are previewing on an external monitor look at the output/preview settings - what is that at? If it is low change it to "Best (auto)". Still fuzzy? If so make try it on "Best" and not "Best (Auto)"

If you are *not* previewing on external monitor check to see if "match output" is clicked. And, again, look at the setting. Low will be fuzzy - best should be clean. Resize the preview window as well if it is at an odd size it will make the preview a bit fuzzy.

If none of that helps and if the footage is really fuzzy than one last thing to check would be the default DV decode settings in windows - check to see thast it is at full and not half or quater Pel. Beyond that - I am not sure.