Is it possible to render 1920x1080 at 59fps?

Space-G wrote on 1/16/2012, 1:13 AM

I have Sony Vegas Pro 11 on a Dell laptop M1730 with a NVIDIA GE Force 8800M GTX video card. I am rendering a video from my Sony HG10 HD camcorder, which records in 1920x1080 at 59fps, 60i (15 Mbps). Vegas Pro 11 allows me to render at 1920x1080 at all settings short of 59 fps. At 29 fps, it works...but the moment I change to 59 fps, I get the following error upon clicking "RENDER": "An error has occurred...the reason for the error could not be determined."

Anyone else have this problem? Is it not possible to render at this resolution and frame rate? I wouldn't care so much about rendering at 29 fps as long as my output looks like 59 fps -- like my HG10 video.

Thanks.

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John_Cline wrote on 1/16/2012, 6:21 AM

29.97 fps interlaced and 60i are the same thing. There are two fields per frame. The 29.97 refers to frames per second and the 60 (actually 59.94) refers to fields per second. Set the render to 29.97 interlaced, upper field first and the output will match your original footage.

Space-G wrote on 1/16/2012, 10:46 PM

Much obliged! I rendered like you said it and it worked like a champ, with no interlacing lines in Windows Media Player. I wish I knew this a long time ago, as I've been rendering in 1280x720, 59 fps, Progressive. Good thing I learned to keep my past projects and their working files in offline storage, in the event I'd ever need to re-render!