Vegas Video 2.0h - Slow Motion Video Artifacts

MXN wrote on 10/2/2001, 1:57 AM
Using VV 2.0h, I always get huge numbers of video artifacts (giant moving pixellated blocks of miscolouring and blurring), but this problem seems to be mostly confined to segments of video which are in "slow-motion" (i.e; time stretched). Is there any solution to this? Thanks for any help.

System:

Win2k
P3 550 MMX
128mb RAM
8mb MATROX VIDEO
10gb HDD

Vegas Video 2.0h

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 10/2/2001, 9:40 AM
what kind of source files and what kind of output files? If you are using MPEG source material there may be no way around this, short of converting those MPEG files to avi.
MXN wrote on 10/3/2001, 1:00 AM
They are MPEG encoded AVI files. Does that make sense? I'm happy with the codec I was using, and I didn't recieve these errors with Vegas video 2.0a.
SonyEPM wrote on 10/3/2001, 9:00 AM
MPEG is not in any way any ideal source format, and transcoding MPEG to MPEG with color correction (which you are doing) can result in some very ugly degradation.

If you cannot capture avi files, try converting a short section of your mpeg source file to avi (using the NTSC DV avi template). Apply your corrections to the avi file, then render back to MPEG. More time consuming yes, but quality will almost certainly be better.
MXN wrote on 10/4/2001, 1:34 AM
I'll try that. But you do realise that the source files play perfectly, it's just when I slow them down using VV they become degraded - huge spreading blobs of odd colour. And this didn't happen in VV 2.0a.
Foreverain4 wrote on 10/4/2001, 2:21 PM
try checking the resample framerate box in your advanced properties of your template to render to. i usually always render to avi with the NSTC DV template because i print back to my camera. this option is located in file, render as, choose avi, select the correct template, then go into advanced. on the video tab the is a box that you can check to resample the frame rate. i dont know if this will work if you are rendering to mpeg. let us know if it does!
MXN wrote on 10/13/2001, 4:01 AM
I am rendering to AVI with MPEG compression.
I tried doing that, but with every combination of settings, Vegas Video always crashed at like 1% of rendering! I can't really see a way around this without somehow converting my project into a Premiere file and getting a new system to run that on.