Vegas and Sharpening

matt24671 wrote on 8/22/2004, 9:59 AM

Folks--

Sharpen, and Unsharp Mask, are very valuable tools in Photoshop. I am wondering how people use these tools in Vegas, and what are the best settings to apply. I have some footage which is slightly out of focus, which may benefit from this, but also wondering how people use these filters on normal footage.

Thanks!

Comments

tygrus wrote on 8/22/2004, 10:20 AM

Matt, you will find that sharpening will likely hurt, not help your final output. The reason is Interlace Flicker which you cna do a search on in here. Most people add a touch of Gaussian Blur to overcome this.

Some playing with the switch settings will help your stills in vegas such as Reduce Interlace flicker and force resample. I have also found Procoder does the final output more justice in terms of clarity than Main Concept does.

RichMacDonald wrote on 8/23/2004, 8:08 AM

Sharpen and Unsharp Mask are valuable but overused tools in Photoshop. And when applied to video, that outline shadow becomes even more annoying. The better approach is a better sharpen. See Convolution sharpen superior to Sharpen/Unsharp mask. Try it, you'll love it. But don't overuse it. If you can see the sharpen its too much :-)