Lightwave, Quicktime and Vegas 5

mjroddy wrote on 8/4/2004, 10:10 AM

I'm rendering a few animations from Lightwave 8 in Uncompressed Quicktime with millions of colours. I have tried Even fields first and Odd as well. I take both anims into Vegas 5 and try different variations of fielding from Properties and all results have fielding issues on renders (doubling of lines and/or "bluring" ((for lack of a better term)) ). I finally gave up with Quicktimes and rendered fielded TGAs and imported that into the Vegas timeline and the resulting anim is rock solid and perfect.
So that's the workaround to my particular problem, but shouldn't Quicktimes be perfect on the Vegas timeline?

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/4/2004, 4:11 PM

If you rendering uncompressed why not just stick with TGA's? Or use uncompressed AVI's. It might be because to use TIF or QT files Vegas much interact with QT. That slows down the reading of QT type files too.

rs170a wrote on 8/4/2004, 4:41 PM

We recently did a year-end DVD for the animation students at the college I work at. Most students rendered their projects (done in Maya) out either as DV-AVI or uncompressed AVIs. Vegas had no problems whatsoever.

Mike

rdolishny wrote on 8/5/2004, 5:16 AM

I think motion blurring for the track may be on in your case.

I render out lower field first from Lightwave which works fine. In my case (knida unique) I use Vegas to assemble my animations and soundfx and export a Matrox MJPEG for output on a Digisuite system SDI to digibeta. But fields are always fine when they end up on the DS or Avid.

Check the properties of your project and make sure they are lower field as well.

Finally, I find the Animation Codec in Quicktime with Millions+ very handy versus TGA. Somehow having ONE file instead of a THOUSAND tga files seems more professional and tidy. File size is marginally smaller than tga's but again more convenient and pro.

- Rick

mjroddy wrote on 8/5/2004, 4:59 PM

Hey Rick. That motion blur may be the ticket! I'll have to check that out later. I agree completely about the one file vs. thousands thing. It's much cleaner and more easily managed, in my opinion.
I have checked the project settings vs. track settings vs. clip properties and tried combos of all.
Thanks for the ideas everyone!