Pixelated render with Pro 10

dka56 wrote on 2/11/2016, 5:35 PM
For the life of me I cannot figure this out. Imported HD video from my Sony XR500 is clean on windows media player. I'm testing different RAM right now so no changes have been made but as a baseline I rendered a 90 sec clip, straight from the camera, default template and the final render is pixelated....I have tried about 20 times to fix this to no avail.

I have tried all lower field, upper field, blend fields, interpolate, 12,000,000 bit rate, 2-pass, best quality, and I cannot get this right, I even closed and opened Vegas, no change.

I'm rendering to mpeg2, 29.97

I'm off to work and I can try to answer questions later or post screenshots but obviously there's something wrong, just curious as to what settings must be made to accurately process this video in Vegas.

Thanks.

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/11/2016, 6:30 PM
Are you Video Project Settings set to 1920x1080 HD?

Which MPEG2 template are you using? There are several resolutions available.

Rather than playing your finished video in Windows Media Player (which does not play interlaced MPEGs well) try using VLC Media Player and see if the video looks better.
dka56 wrote on 2/12/2016, 9:31 AM
I was using 1920x1080, MPEG2 Video: 29.970 fps, 1920x1080 Upper field first, YUV, 24 Mbps

I went back this morning and I ran a quick render and the video is more fluid now, not sure why. My settings are:

Template: HD 1080-60i 1920x1080 29,970
upper field first
pixel 1.0 square
compositing gamma 1.0 linear
3d mode off
32-bit floating full range
best resolution, Gaussian blur
no deinterlace

saved as default template Video: 29.970 fps, 1920x1080 Upper field first, YUV, 24 Mbps

custom:
mpeg-2
29.970
16:9
B-frames 2
I frames 15
upper field first
video quality high
variable bit rate 2 pass

max 24,000,000
avg 12,000,000
Min 8,000,000

This worked good today, video was slightly soft.

I then used Sony AVC mp4

AVCHD
Video: 29.970 fps, 1920x1080 Upper field first, YUV, 16 Mbps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000

this mp4 was a little better than the mpeg 2 and looked like what I pulled from the camera.

wmv is kinda choppy, not terribly so but when panning the video is choppy. Also, when renering in wmv,,the frames will get to about to 60 then stop for about 2 seconds, then another 60 frames...it's not a continuous render if that makes sense.

mp4 looked better than wmv though.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/12/2016, 9:45 AM
WMVs are kind of an obsolete video format left over from the days when Microsoft ruled the web and compression was everything. I wouldn't bother with it.

MP4s are also compressed, but should give you a video that looks virtually identical to the original.