pixelate plugin resizes from whats in preview

uofmrapper wrote on 10/30/2008, 7:13 PM
hello,

so I added the pixelate plugin to my project and it looks good in the preview window (about a quarter of my screen) but then I render it and the little squares get way smaller than what they looked like in the the preview! this isn't good because it pretty much shows what i'm trying to cover up w/ the pixelate plug-in. any help on why this happens? thanks.

Comments

Marco. wrote on 10/31/2008, 12:34 AM
Did you set your preview to "Best (Full)"?

Marco
bStro wrote on 10/31/2008, 8:30 AM
Might not be a problem specifically with the FX so much as the video being used. What is the file format, codec, and pixel aspect ratio of your source footage? What is the pixel aspect ratio of your project? And what file format, codec, and pixel aspect ratio are you rendering to?

This kind of thing seems to crop up most when rendering to WMV. Some elements of the video "shift" during the render.

Rob
uofmrapper wrote on 10/31/2008, 8:55 AM
Marco - Yes I do have the preview set to "Best (Full)"

Rob - I'm at work, I'll have to check on the settings when I get home tonight and respond. I ripped the content onto the PC using the "capture" tool in Sony Vegas Studio from my miniDV camera. I believe the pixel aspect ratio is 720 x 480 but maybe that's another spec i'm thinking of. I am rendering to mpg2 also i believe at 720 x 480 widescreen.

Found out that it does it when I resize the preview window too. When its docked and takes up quarter of the screen it looks ok but if I undock the preview and stretch to fill the whole screen, it resizes to the smaller "pixel boxes". I have used the "Large" pixelate plugin which sets the size of the "pixel boxes" to 0.75 horiz & vert.
uofmrapper wrote on 11/1/2008, 8:14 AM
Ok, source video is a .avi file, 29.970 fps interlaced, 720x480x24, DV. pixel aspect ratio is 1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen).

Project - NTSC DV Widescreen (720x480, 29.970 fps), 1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen), 8 bit pixel format.

rendering to mpg2, 29.970 fps, 720x480, 16:9.

And i was wrong, i had the preview at best (auto).

any suggestions?