Interlacing Problems

Mastodon STL wrote on 6/9/2006, 2:16 PM

I'm trying to put a border (for menu purposes) around a peice of footage (a rendered commercial), that claims in vegas that it's progressive scan... I try to resize it to fit it in the border and it gives me thick interlace lines that I can SEE on the output monitor.
The only thing I can think of is that it was captured NTSC, then converted to 24p and for some reason never de-interlaced the footage. WTF is up with this? Is there any way I can deinterlace this video?

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GlennChan wrote on 6/9/2006, 2:54 PM

Progressive/interlace settings are in two places:
A- On the clips/events.
B- Under file --> properties.

Vegas will look at both settings and try to intelligently handle things.

So if you have an interlaced project and stuff moving, that stuff will move interlaced. (If that makes any sense at all.)
I can't remember if Vegas will take progressive footage and try to make it interlaced.

2- Vegas can't always detect if footage is 24p with pulldown or 60i. For 24p DV, the DV is flagged so Vegas can figure it out. With other footage there are no flags. Vegas thinks the footage is 60i and doesn't handle it properly.

In the media pool, you can manually tell Vegas that the clip is a 24p clip. There are five different cadences because of the way 3:2 pulldown works. Use trial and error to figure it out.
Open the clip in the trimmer or whatever and use alt + arrow keys to find a frame with interlacing / venetian window blinds effect. Right click the clip and guess the pulldown. Alt + arrow keys forward to see if more frames have the window blinds effect.