Working with individual frames

sjlocke wrote on 8/11/2004, 11:35 AM
Hi there,

I am setting up the Vegas trial, and want to see how to approach this from you guys.

I have individual frames rendered from a 3d program, as .tifs. I want to be able to load these into Vegas and work with them.

Some programs can deal with a series of images. Does Vegas?

I have also loaded them into Quicktime Pro, and can save them out as .avi, with a variety of codecs, at 29.997, as well as other frame rates.

If the latter is my best option, what would the optimal parameters be to save a successful .avi (or whatever else Qpro might output)?

Thanks!

sjlocke

Comments

sjlocke wrote on 8/11/2004, 11:46 AM
Hi,

I see in another thread that you can import an image sequence. What is the best format for doing this? Hopefully, tifs :>.

sjlocke
Chienworks wrote on 8/11/2004, 12:27 PM
TIF is ok, but it will be slow. Vegas has to load the QuickTime decoder to use TIF images. Targa is probably a better choice. If you need more compression then PNG also works well. Heck, even plain ol' BMP works too and it's about the same size as TIF.
rs170a wrote on 8/11/2004, 12:31 PM
What is the best format for doing this? Hopefully, tifs :>.

Vegas prefers images in the png format. You can use any number of programs to convert your tifs to pngs.
Just make sure all images are numbered sequentially and have the same number of digits all the way through (0001 to 9999, for example). If this isn't done, it will mess up the import big time.

Mike
BJ_M wrote on 8/11/2004, 2:33 PM
vegas works great with targa images and targa's dont have the problems png files do ..

jpegs also work well and if set for 100% quality , really are a very usable format if you need to save space..

rs170a wrote on 8/11/2004, 3:59 PM
...targa's dont have the problems png files do ..

Out of curiosity, what would those problems be?

Mike
BJ_M wrote on 8/11/2004, 4:08 PM
color shift mostly