vertical flickers when creating film look

Ros wrote on 2/14/2005, 1:37 PM

I am trying to achieve a film look from footage shot with a SONY PD150 NTSC. All the footage has been shot at 60i and rendered in Vegas 5.0d in different ways in order to achive a film look.

I have rendered to 24P, 30P and also tried reduce interlace flicker, blend fields and interpolate fields in my experiments, and burned these using DVDA 2. The end results looks great...

BUT, I am always getting some vertical flickers where the camera pans from left to right and right to left... therefore it is most noticeable when the camera pans.

Is there a way to avoid this, have I missed something ?

Thanks,
Robert

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Laurence wrote on 2/14/2005, 1:41 PM

Try it with a version of Vegas earlier than 5d. This sounds like something that might be related to the problem I'm experiencing with interlace lines being resized when changing aspect ratio. This problem is usually covered up by deinterlacing, but it is most extreme on camera pans.

Jsnkc wrote on 2/14/2005, 1:59 PM

Ros wrote on 2/14/2005, 4:13 PM

Hi Laurence,

I had an ealier version of Vegas on my other computer, 5.0c, so I gave it a try, I transferred my original file to it but unfortunately, no sucess. I am still getting vertical flickers.

Eventhough it was captured with Vegas 5.0d, I doubt there would be a problem there. Anyhow, I will get a fresh capture from Vegas 5.0c tomorrow and give a second chance.

Thanks,
Robert

Laurence wrote on 2/15/2005, 7:11 PM

You know Robert, if you go to the site where Sony keep their older versions, it just goes directly from 5b to 5d. 5c is not even listed. Try 5b. I know for a fact that that fixed my problem:

ftp://download.sonypictures.com/old/

ftp://download.sonypictures.com/old/vegas50b_bld160.exe

Your problem sounds so similiar to mine that I would give it a try.

Ros wrote on 2/16/2005, 9:44 AM

Thanks Laurence, I didn't know we could download old files, so I did get Vegas 5.0b but again, no luck, it didn't solve my problem.

All I am trying to do is simulate a film look either in 24p or 30p, but I always get these vertical flickers on pans which I find very annoying.

Well, I will keep on testing, thanks!

Laurence wrote on 2/16/2005, 2:14 PM

Wow, I was sure that would help. Let us know when you figure it out.