Vegas 12 Horizontal Lines

adam-d6063 wrote on 9/18/2019, 7:58 AM

So I recently downloaded Vegas 12 to a new computer, and making my first video I came across Squiggly lines, and a bar of discolored horizontal lines at the top.



Now, it only appears on certain clips. I downloaded a bunch of clips from Youtube to make an encompassing video, and the scenes I couldn't find I made a video from iphone. The iphone videos don't have the lines, but the more high quality videos from Youtube do.

I'm new to being this detailed on video editing, but from my research, let me put a few settings I have for the project:

Field Order: None (progressive scan)
(I've changed to upper and lower, and the lines are still there)

Deinterlace Method: Blend Fields
(I've tried Interpolate fields but lines are still there)

Can anyone help me in how to get rid of this squiggly line/discolored horizontal line at top problem?

Comments

Musicvid wrote on 9/18/2019, 8:11 AM

Simple as pie. It's called interlacing.

1. Match Media Settings. You do not have to "guess" at the field order!

2. Select Interpolate as your deinterlace choice.

3. Select Best render quality (must do this if you will resize.)

Here's a decades-old article that explains this graphically.

http://100fps.com/

 

 

Former user wrote on 9/18/2019, 8:32 AM

Musicvid, if you click on the pics I think the OP is talking about the distortion at the top of the frame.

Musicvid wrote on 9/18/2019, 8:56 AM

That's not my first impression, but OP may post links to his source if he chooses. If the squiggles are hard-baked, there of course is nothing that can be done. Advice remains unchanged.

adam-d6063 wrote on 9/18/2019, 9:56 AM

That's not my first impression, but OP may post links to his source if he chooses. If the squiggles are hard-baked, there of course is nothing that can be done. Advice remains unchanged.

Thank you for replying. Yes, the squiggles are there, but more prominent is the discolored horizontal line distortion at the top of the screen. I posted image shots in my OP.

Musicvid wrote on 9/18/2019, 9:59 AM

Yes that's the first thing I looked at. Looks like someone pointed a camera at a teevee screen. So shutter and refresh rate will not sync, by a factor of 30/29.970 (example) . Sounds like Dot is correct; I mistakenly thought you knew.

Please post links to your source video so we can check it out.

adam-d6063 wrote on 9/18/2019, 11:14 AM

Yes that's the first thing I looked at. Looks like someone pointed a camera at a teevee screen. So shutter and refresh rate will not sync, by a factor of 30/29.970 (example) . Sounds like Dot is correct; I mistakenly thought you knew.

Please post links to your source video so we can check it out.

Here are the links to the videos I downloaded, all of the ones that have that discoloration and lines on them.

Musicvid wrote on 9/18/2019, 12:17 PM

I used 4k Video Downloader to acquire your clips.

I am unable to duplicate your error in Vegas 14, even when deliberately mis-rendered to 29.97i. Your video is true 480 30.000p, btw, not NTSC.

I would use the Magix (Mainconcept) 480p Internet template to render, as that most closely matches your source.

What are you using to download the video from Youtube?

Please, going forward, do not post camera pictures taken off your monitor. post actual screenshots. Vegas has a button to capture actual screenshots.

Did you know that pressing "PRT SCN" captures the screen image to your clipboard?

adam-d6063 wrote on 9/18/2019, 12:42 PM

I used 4k Video Downloader to acquire your clips.

I am unable to duplicate your error in Vegas 14, even when deliberately mis-rendered to 29.97i. Your video is true 480 30.000p, btw, not NTSC.

I would use the Magix (Mainconcept) 480p Internet template, as that most closely matches your source.

What are you using to download the video from Youtube?

Please, going forward, do not post camera pictures taken off your monitor. post actual screenshots.

Did you know that pressing "PRT SCN" captures the screen image to your clipboard?

I used 4K as well to download from Youtube.

I rerendered it, still all the lines and all. I guess I'm stumped.

 

Musicvid wrote on 9/18/2019, 1:25 PM

Have you tried using a different monitor and/or player? This is not a known issue with Vegas, afaik.

adam-d6063 wrote on 9/18/2019, 1:37 PM

Have you tried using a different monitor and/or player? This is not a known issue with Vegas, afaik.

It's been there all three steps along the way.

1. It's on my video preview in Vegas

2. It's on my rendered video as an avi or mpg

3. It's on youtube...

 

I hope it's not going to happen on all of my projects. Yikes! But thank you for reading and offering help.