Reversing Revisited

mjroddy wrote on 12/19/2004, 10:14 PM
Grrr... I'm doing something wrong.
I'm trying to reverse a clip. I've chose "Reverse" from a right click and also tried a Velosity Envelope. Both make my clips look like they are poorly fielded; very jittery. I've tried to bring Super Sampling up full and that smooths it out a bit, but I'm not getting the results I know Vegas 5 is capable of. I've seen perfectly smooth reverse. What might I be doing wrong?
Settings are standard NTSC DV, lower field first, etc.
Thanks for your help.

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RichMacDonald wrote on 12/19/2004, 10:27 PM
I'm rushing this post and don't have time to search for the old thread...I believe johnmeyer found out that this is a bug in Vegas. If you reverse the clip you reverse the field order. This was some time ago and I can't remember the version...I think it was V4...but there was no followup so perhaps the problem persists in V5. This is from (suspect) memory.

EDIT: Memory seems ok. Link here
mjroddy wrote on 12/20/2004, 11:07 AM
Gads. What a pain. I would have thought this issue had been resolved by now. Strange. Thanks very much Rich!
taliesin wrote on 12/20/2004, 11:55 AM
Can't reproduce that problem. Yes, there IS a problem when reversing a clip using the Velocity Envelope, because this one does NOT reverse the field order then though it should do so. But the function "Reverse" does reverse the field order. And this is right the way it should work.
Using "Reverse" works fine here.

Marco
mjroddy wrote on 12/20/2004, 3:33 PM
Werid. "It always happens to me."
I tried a simple "Reverse" and got the same jittering. I'll have to wait until I get home to try the field order, though.
So, though I don't have to do this right now (for this project), how was it that I saw a guy's video on skateboarding where the video rolls forward, stops, reverses and moves forward. If there is a fielding problem, how is this being done?
I'd be guessing that Sony/Sonic Foundry folk will be addressing this soon?