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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/3/2005, 4:54 PM
How was it captured?

My guess is that's where the problem lies - If it's a High resolution vieo - and you're shrinking it, you may want to try Best as the Video quality instead of good (you do this by clicking the custom button when you render and check the Video tab - then select the drop down box and click best instead of good -- it only makes a differenece when there's scaling involved)

Otherwise you may not have a good resizing method employed in the first place - say you captured an s-video out from a laptop - bad image quailty comes out of it to begin with.

Either way - more detail on you're captuing it and what size you're outputting would be helpful.

Dave
Blazt wrote on 4/3/2005, 4:59 PM
Ok, well it's recorded using Fraps and when I play it, it looks awesome. However, when I then take it into Vegas and finish rendering it after editing, it plays slightly blurred. I checked and it IS set to 'best'. I was wondering though, can you make it render video quite large. Eg, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024??? Because that would be ideal aswell as removing the blur.
PeterWright wrote on 4/3/2005, 5:28 PM
You can render (almost) any size you want, but to maximise clarity, create the originals at that same size.

edit: you didn't mention what format you were rendering to.
Blazt wrote on 4/3/2005, 6:29 PM
AVI. I try to do it at 1280 x 1024 because that's what i recorded it as. But when i render it, it wont let me go above 800 x 800.....
goshep wrote on 4/3/2005, 6:40 PM
What version of FRAPS are you using? I believe the freeware version is limited in resolution. Just a guess.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 4/3/2005, 7:32 PM
What AVI template are you rendering to?
How will you be viewing the video once you have rendered it?
Is it just for viewing on a PC?

If it is for viewing ona PC then I would recommend you render to a high-ish bit-rate WMV format. You can set the render format to "use project settings" to end up with the exact same frame size as you started with.
Blazt wrote on 4/4/2005, 12:23 AM
Ok, i've fixed the blurriness. However, now my video's are like 2Gb per minute and it's meant to be a 15 or 20 minute video. I've got one someone else made on my computer that's 600Mb and it's 20mins. What kind of compression should I use for mine??? I've tried a couple and they just blur.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/4/2005, 1:31 AM
OK When you render, and the dialog box opens.
Select WMV codec
another dialog box will open
click on the Vdeo tab
Now go to the 3rd drop down box - labeled image size
set the image size to the same resolutoin as your project settings (600x800, 1024x768 - or whatever res you captured at)
Then run the quality slider bar percentage wherever you want.

What you have to realize here is that if you want to make an AVI that is in the resolution settings that you're talking - you probably will want a separate HD just for the video - especially if you use uncompressed. You're trying to pack a LOT of resolution into a very small package - and there isn't a codec out there that can compress that much info losslessly with very small file sizes. Not that there aren't some excelent codecs out there - but you'd end up having to pay thousands of dollars sometimes just to be able to shave off a little extra file size.

WMV is an excellent free codec for compressing / loss ratio as far as I'm aware - (Correct me if I'm wrong here guys), but you're not going to make an .avi without needing MASS storage space.

Dave
FuTz wrote on 4/4/2005, 6:24 AM
You said it FrigND'...MASS storage.
Even worse when rendering to MOV...
WMV renders FAST and has a nice output