I used a fixed tripod behind the minister. I was late, in a hurry, and didn't get the tripod level. I'm using rotate in the Track Pan/Crop to correct my error.
However, the resulting video seems soft and slightly out of focus.
Things I've tried:
1. I have set all events on this tack to "Force Resample."
2. I tried rotation without also enlarging (to get rid of the black edges you get when you rotate.
3. I tried setting Supersampling to 2.
Does anyone have other ideas of things I might try? This is not a huge deal because I'm using this fixed camera mostly as a cutaway to cover my mistakes on the other two cameras.
BTW, if you haven't used Vegas to edit events shot with multiple cameras, you should definitely try it. It is amazingly easy to do and you can do all sorts of tricks. One trick I invented on this shoot, was how to overcome the fidelity limitations of a cheap wireless microphone. I was using an Azden wireless (about $150 retail). It has no high end at all. I used the audio EQ to provide a little peaking around 5kHz and that helped a little. However, what helped a lot was to mix the wireless mic sound with the sound from my main camcorder. The main camcorder was at the back of the church, so it picked up echoes etc. However, the microphone on the camcorder has a reasonable frequency response. I synced up the audio tracks (easy to do), and then blended some of the camcorder audio with the wireless mic. The result was audio that had a reasonably close-mic'd sound, but with some of the fidelity added back, and enough ambience to make it sound natural.
Good as this trick is, however, next time I'm using a decent wireless mic.
However, the resulting video seems soft and slightly out of focus.
Things I've tried:
1. I have set all events on this tack to "Force Resample."
2. I tried rotation without also enlarging (to get rid of the black edges you get when you rotate.
3. I tried setting Supersampling to 2.
Does anyone have other ideas of things I might try? This is not a huge deal because I'm using this fixed camera mostly as a cutaway to cover my mistakes on the other two cameras.
BTW, if you haven't used Vegas to edit events shot with multiple cameras, you should definitely try it. It is amazingly easy to do and you can do all sorts of tricks. One trick I invented on this shoot, was how to overcome the fidelity limitations of a cheap wireless microphone. I was using an Azden wireless (about $150 retail). It has no high end at all. I used the audio EQ to provide a little peaking around 5kHz and that helped a little. However, what helped a lot was to mix the wireless mic sound with the sound from my main camcorder. The main camcorder was at the back of the church, so it picked up echoes etc. However, the microphone on the camcorder has a reasonable frequency response. I synced up the audio tracks (easy to do), and then blended some of the camcorder audio with the wireless mic. The result was audio that had a reasonably close-mic'd sound, but with some of the fidelity added back, and enough ambience to make it sound natural.
Good as this trick is, however, next time I'm using a decent wireless mic.