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rmack350 wrote on 10/22/2003, 8:34 PM
Best Quality setting does bicubic interpolation. That's especially good for still images that have been resized in vegas.

Lots of times "Best" makes no difference but if you're panning/cropping/resizing/zooming then those areas might benefit from "Best"

Otherwise, the only thing that comes to mind is to be aware that projectors should show your film all the way out to the edges. A TV doesn't do that.

Pay attention to your sound and try to hear it in a large room like you imagine it might be played in.

Rob Mack
SonyEPM wrote on 10/23/2003, 9:25 AM
Sundance and quite a few other festivals are now accepting and projecting projects in Windows Media 9 format. Check with the festival to make sure they can handle WM9- if they can, I think its your best option for a delivery format.
Sid_Phillips wrote on 10/23/2003, 10:05 AM
Kruz:

If your source material is top-notch you shouldn't have a problem, and anything you do to it in a NLE would probably make it worse (unless it was in bad shape to begin with).

If the finished piece looks good on a good quality, large monitor running through a good home theater audio system, it should project well and sound good in the presentation venue. Assuming that they are well equipped and using good engineers, that is. But I can't imagine a "big film festival" that wouldn't be running good, if not great AV gear.

Good luck!
musman wrote on 10/23/2003, 3:51 PM
I'm do8ing the same thinga nd am wondering about making my material progressive for projection. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't projectors display images progressively?
If I'm right about this then using one of vegas's methods for deinterlacing material or maybe DVFilmmaker software might be a good idea.
Someone with more experience please correct me if I'm wrong.