Options for rendering

tomdriver wrote on 7/21/2009, 2:18 PM
I've put together a Movie Studio 9 project using almost 200 still images and a musical soundtrack. It previews well, but has problems when rendered. I need it in some form that I can send to the online magazine that wants to use it.
The project is about 20 minutes long. I first rendered it as AVI, but the sound was not correctly synchronized. I then rendered it as MOV, but the visual transition cross-fades were not smooth, and there were some short, silent gaps in the audio.
What should I do?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 7/21/2009, 3:09 PM
What kind of AVI file? What codec did you use? There are a lot available and some commonly have synchronization problems. Try DV .avi if your project is standard definition. That should play perfectly smooth.

What codec and bitrate did you use for the .MOV file? If your bitrate was too low then movements and transitions will suffer badly.
Eugenia wrote on 7/21/2009, 7:17 PM
Export either in .m2t (interlaced though), or in 720p MP4 progressive at 5-6 mbps.
tomdriver wrote on 7/23/2009, 4:14 AM
The suggestion about changing the codec proved helpful. One of the options Movie Studio 9 offers is NTSC DV. Using that seems to have cleared things up. I made a satisfactory AVI render. Many thanks.
Eugenia wrote on 7/23/2009, 1:09 PM
Bad idea. Your footage is just pictures, therefore it is progressive. You use NTSC DV, which is interlaced. You added unnecessary artifacts to your final video.