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BillyBoy wrote on 1/9/2005, 7:39 PM
Waves in water can be tricky if you pan or zoom. You may have better luck if you apply one of the smoothing or bluring filters or right click on the timeline and select reduce interlace flicker under switches, alone or in combintion. One tip you see lots in this forum is to apply just a tiny bit of Gaussian blur, and I mean TINY. Just .001 seems to work magic sometimes, probably because even just dropping the filter on a event with it set to zero seems to change things just a tad. Don't know if that's a "feature" or "bug".
farss wrote on 1/10/2005, 12:30 AM
If you're working from HiRes stills I posted the optimum fix to this a little while OK.
You need to apply Gaussian Blur at 0.001 Vertical only.
If you want to loose as little vertical res as possible in the process and are going out to DVD set the project properties to 1080i as it seems Vegas calculates the amoung of blur based on the project settings.
Then render out to mpeg-2 as you normally would but at Best.
Bob.
Crawfish wrote on 1/10/2005, 7:59 AM
Set project settings at 1080i?
do you mean the horizontal to 1080i?
Sorry for weird question.
DavidY wrote on 1/10/2005, 5:52 PM
Well guys this has nothing to do with the water flicker problem but while reading this I thought I could try the Gaussain Blur trick on my interlacing problem I have on my lighning intro and guess what, it seems to have made the difference that I was looking for. I hope it works on the water flicker.

David Yeaman
farss wrote on 1/10/2005, 6:17 PM
Yes, just set the project properties to one of the 1080 HD templates.

You only need to apply GB in the vertical direction, no need to throw away any more resolution than you need to.

The idea is to change how Vegas calculates the amount of blur. I found doing it at the output project settings created more blur than what was needed.
Bob.
Crawfish wrote on 1/10/2005, 9:13 PM
Farss,
you mean set it at "HD 1080-60i (1920x1080, 29.970 fps)"

Let me get this right, I know this is a dumb question.
So basically I should put the settings for the "Project properties"
as what I'm putting into Vegas, or should I set it closely to what
the output video should be? The former should sound more logically than the latter.

But the HD 1080-60i settings has the field order as "upper".
I've only dealt with field orders with TMPEngc and interlaced videos.
I do not how it pertains to digital stills.

Also, since my stills are aspect ratio of 1.0, so I should set the project properties to 1.0 even if I'm using say other templates?
farss wrote on 1/10/2005, 11:30 PM
>> you mean set it at "HD 1080-60i (1920x1080, 29.970 fps)

Yes, that'll do. It really doesn't matter about the field order or even the fps as you're coming from stills. Vegas will render them out at whatever frame rate and field order you specify when you render/encode.
Still images are progressive, they cannot be anything else, even though you're going to render them out as interlace the two fields are from the same point in time unless you're applying motion to them in Vegas.

mpeg-2 for DVD is UFF and so is HiDef but don't let that worry you.
bob.

Crawfish wrote on 1/11/2005, 10:14 AM
What about the pixel aspect ratio?
leave it at 1 or 0.9?