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jrazz wrote on 10/3/2006, 10:43 AM
You could give it a slight blur- depending on whether the lines are horizontal or vertical, just blur the opposite. You can try a chroma blur and see if that does any good for you. This may soften the shimmer.

j razz
Dan Sherman wrote on 10/3/2006, 11:11 AM
thanks j,--will that a try.
David Jimerson wrote on 10/3/2006, 11:29 AM
Remember -- things like this flicker exactly BECAUSE they're high-resolution.

They flicker on horizontal interlace lines because the detail is finer than the line, and it appears on one field, but not the next, so it keeps appearing and disappearing.

Another thing you can do besides the blur is reduce opacity. It helps with the flicker before it gets to the point where it's noticeably darker.
Dan Sherman wrote on 10/3/2006, 11:56 AM
And I thought high resolution was always a good thing.
These photos aren't bad but at times the flicker can be a tad distracting.
These are 1000 X 666.
Well,----

Jay-Hancock wrote on 10/3/2006, 12:55 PM
If you haven't already, you might also want to try setting in the project properties your deinterlace method to something other than "none", regardless of whether your final output will be progressive or interlaced.
farss wrote on 10/3/2006, 1:29 PM
Done 1000s of hi res stills (3K x 2K) in 16:9 PAL.

I've used guassian blur but vertical only.
On the last project to keep the maximum res we ran two identical tracks with the GB on the bottom track only and then used a mask so only the problem areas had the GB, tedious work with so many stills but the results are noticably sharper.

Bob.
Dan Sherman wrote on 10/3/2006, 4:35 PM
Thanks Bob.
Lot's more tedious than video in many ways.
The GB didn't seem to do much, in fact none of the blurs did.
I'll add a duplicate track and try your suggestion.
Is there an optimal resolution for stills in video?
Dan Sherman wrote on 10/3/2006, 4:47 PM
Brilliant!
Tedious, but it does work.
This is akin to picking fly sh-t out of pepper with boxing gloves on.
More coffee.
It's be a long night.
Cue the "Rocky" theme.
farss wrote on 10/3/2006, 5:26 PM
I'm surprised the GB didn't help, you must reach a point where the problem will go away, if not maybe we're looking at a different issue.

I've tended to drop the stills into a 1080 HD project and add GB vertical = .001, horizontal = 0. Reason for doing that was due to how Vegas used to calulate the amount of GB. I think that got fixed in V6 though.
With GB at around .050, if you're still getting a problem something else might be going on.

Needless to say you need to be rendering at Best.

With 100s of HiRes stills on the T/L Vegas groans and moans something fierce. I beat that by turning off thumbnails and waveforms under View (got moved in V6).

Bob.