Render image seq without changing Preview setting?

PeterWright wrote on 9/29/2009, 1:17 AM
As I've been posting in the Vegas Forum, I need to export a clip with an New Blue Art FX in a way that maintains the look I get with Preview set to Preview/Auto or even Best Auto, but definitely not Best Full, as this ruins the look I'm after. New Blue have acknowledged that the final render with this and some other FX does change the look considerably, irrespective of the Render settings in Properties.

I have Ult S and Excalibur, but haven't yet found that these will do the trick, i.e. keep the preview settings for the render.

I've tried an old 2005 script which seems to keep the Preview quality okay, but for some reason most frames came out without colour.

Does anyone know of a recent script or anything else that may do the trick?

Thanks

Comments

jetdv wrote on 9/29/2009, 6:34 AM
It should just be a matter of going back to that old script and turning off these two lines (just add // in front of them):

// Set the preview quality and size. 

Vegas.Project.Preview.RenderQuality = VideoRenderQuality.Best; 

Vegas.Project.Preview.FullSize = true;


There should be zero effect on color.

If you really want zero changes from preview, you might also want to turn off these lines as well:

// Set the field order and deinterlace method 

Vegas.Project.Video.FieldOrder = VideoFieldOrder.ProgressiveScan; 

Vegas.Project.Video.DeinterlaceMethod = VideoDeinterlaceMethod.InterpolateFields;

jetdv wrote on 9/29/2009, 6:38 AM
Looking at the images, you still may be able to use Excalibur 6. It has the option of doing 1/2 size or 1/4 size. So if the "auto" size is 1/2 size, try 1/2 size and see if that gives what you're wanting.
PeterWright wrote on 9/29/2009, 10:51 PM
Thanks Edward - I had no idea that // did that!

Anyway - it sort of worked, inasmuch as it maintained the desired look, but, apart from the 3rd and 4th frames, which are in full colour, the other 398 frames came out very colourless, almost grayscale. It wasn't the changes I made to the script, because the same happened before.

Any idea what might cause this?

Peter

jetdv wrote on 9/30/2009, 7:54 AM
Yeah, "//" indicates anything that follows it on that line is a comment so it doesn't get run.

I don't see how/why the colors would be affected. Have you tried both JPG and PNG? I assume all colors are there when you preview the timeline...
PeterWright wrote on 10/2/2009, 4:44 AM
Thanks again Edward.

I changed to jpg, and sure enough the colour returned - then I changed back to png and the colour stayed, so I don't know what's going on, but thankfully I now have, albeit approximately, the result I wanted.