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Spot|DSE wrote on 8/15/2004, 10:57 AM
First, remember your high rez stills are being dumbed down to 720 x 480, assuming you're working in NTSC.
You can improve this quite a lot.
Right click an image, choose "Reduce Interlace Flicker."
You may want to Force Resample, found by right clicking/Switches.
What size is your Preview window? What output quality? Try Preview/Full and either view on External monitor, or resize your Preview windo by double clicking the preview window header bar. See if any of this makes a difference. While paused on a still frame, set your output to Best/Full. This will give you a full preview of exactly what quality the image will look like when rendered.
fultro wrote on 8/15/2004, 11:35 AM
So Spot - the Preview/Full works I use an external monitor ..
I wonder if dumbing down to 720 x 480 is better done in Photoshop...

force Resample I have never understood

Reduce Interlace Flick has never done much for me
So I have tried a tiny little bit of Gaussian or Linear Blur with preety good results on the flicker ... any other ideas? blur in Photoshop?

always looking for the most elegant solution and I thank every one here for their input for newcomers such as myself

fultro




Spot|DSE wrote on 8/15/2004, 12:07 PM
Will you be zooming? If so, reduce your stills to double full rez, so you'd be looking at 655 x 2 =1310 and 480 x 2=960, for a final image size of 1310x 960. You can also scale vertically, so it would be 1440 x 1152. This will give you some zoom room, and you can do this in Pshop, photoImpact, or whatever other image editing software you have.
Resampling causes Vegas to interpolate the frame based on previous and post frame information. This can actually cause problems in some cases, rather than fixing them, but with stills...it generally helps. Be sure you are rendering to BEST if you have a lot of stills.
If Reduce Interlace flicker does nothing for the frame, I'm surprised, but you can see it, I can't. Park the cursor on a frame, put the preview mode in Best/Full. Turn on, and then turn off Reduce Interlace Flicker. If you don't see a change for the better in the image, then you're fortunate.
fultro wrote on 8/15/2004, 12:35 PM
All very helpful...
I will be doing some tight zooming ....
Is there a problem with letting Vegas do the resizing of higher rez files such as appox 2200 x 1400?
jetdv wrote on 8/15/2004, 1:54 PM
Just make sure you zoom using Pan/Crop - If you zoom with Track Motion, you will be zooming in on the VIDEO frame instead of the full resolution of the image.