Hello All:
So sorry in advance for such a long post
My business partner and I have been shooting weddings together for over 10 years now and we both use Vegas to edit all of our material. About 5 years ago when we first purchased Vegas, someone in this forum gave us some Render settings and some Project Property settings that I saved as templates for all of our projects. And five years later, we still use the same settings and have never changed them.
The reason for this post is that just this past wedding season, we shot only two weddings in which the bride and groom had just purchased brand new HD Plasma TV’s.
The feedback that I am getting from one couple is that the quality of the video is not looking as good on their new Plasma as it did when they watched some of it here on my regular 32” Sony TV. The groom called to tell me that in lower lit or darker scenes, there appears to be pixelation and jagged edges especially in the scenes where there is motion. For instance, this was an outside wedding on a very windy day and the sun was going in and out of the clouds continually. The minister was holding a piece of paper and I am being told that the paper is pixilated and jagged as it blows in the wind. The same thing is happing during the shots of the limo driving away. Even though I do not know anything about Plasmas and LCD and how they relate to video, I have heard that there are some issues with motion. So I guess my question is: Is there anything that I should be doing differently with my Project Properties or Render settings if the final DVD will be watched on a Plasma or LCD TV to eliminate this issue. Unfortunately, I do not have a Plasma or LCD TV to recreate the problem to see what the customer is seeing, so I was just wondering if maybe the Field Order or De-Interlace Method in my Project Properties should be changed. Currently those settings are at: Lower Field First and Blend Fields.
Thanks,
Lori J
So sorry in advance for such a long post
My business partner and I have been shooting weddings together for over 10 years now and we both use Vegas to edit all of our material. About 5 years ago when we first purchased Vegas, someone in this forum gave us some Render settings and some Project Property settings that I saved as templates for all of our projects. And five years later, we still use the same settings and have never changed them.
The reason for this post is that just this past wedding season, we shot only two weddings in which the bride and groom had just purchased brand new HD Plasma TV’s.
The feedback that I am getting from one couple is that the quality of the video is not looking as good on their new Plasma as it did when they watched some of it here on my regular 32” Sony TV. The groom called to tell me that in lower lit or darker scenes, there appears to be pixelation and jagged edges especially in the scenes where there is motion. For instance, this was an outside wedding on a very windy day and the sun was going in and out of the clouds continually. The minister was holding a piece of paper and I am being told that the paper is pixilated and jagged as it blows in the wind. The same thing is happing during the shots of the limo driving away. Even though I do not know anything about Plasmas and LCD and how they relate to video, I have heard that there are some issues with motion. So I guess my question is: Is there anything that I should be doing differently with my Project Properties or Render settings if the final DVD will be watched on a Plasma or LCD TV to eliminate this issue. Unfortunately, I do not have a Plasma or LCD TV to recreate the problem to see what the customer is seeing, so I was just wondering if maybe the Field Order or De-Interlace Method in my Project Properties should be changed. Currently those settings are at: Lower Field First and Blend Fields.
Thanks,
Lori J