Photos w Pan/Zoom - straight edge "stepping"

eightyeightkeys wrote on 6/29/2010, 10:11 AM

I just successfully rendered a movie for WD TVLive in 1920 X1080 HD according to Eugenia's very helpful rendering template. The source was a Canon HV30 in HD 1440X1080 and a Canon 3 MP still camera on highest resolution. The source video and photos look excellent.

The video portion rendered beautifully. No complaints there at all. But, any still images with a vertical or horizontal edge, a railing for example, with pan or zoom applied, will zig zag through the entire pan and zoom.

It's quite distracting and I'd like to get rid of this if possible. Any ideas?

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jetdv wrote on 6/29/2010, 10:48 AM

Some options:

Render to progressive instead of interlaced.

Reduce the resolution of the images

Add a very slight blur to the images

eightyeightkeys wrote on 7/4/2010, 2:33 PM

Thanks for the tips.

I've found a two step solution that works like a charm. I don't even have to alter the resolution of the photos.

#1) Apply a track wide "Secondary Color Corrector" plug-in with the "Computer RGB to Studio RGB preset"
#2) Apply another track wide Gaussian Blur in the horizontal only set to 0.001. Vertical set to zero.

No more stepped/zig zagged images.

btw, Eugenia, your preset for the WD TVLive is rendering amazing video ! My only change is the VBR is set to 20,000,000. What the heck ? It works. Even on my ol' P4 3GHz machine.