Jaggies

[Walt Mitchell]

First post! Long time reader, first time poster.

What are the best settings for reducing jaggies in the footage? The kind you see along horizontal and vertical lines.

I'm usually shooting 720/60p for the most part.

Thanks!

[Jordan Berry]

If you have the light then try a 100 or 120 shutter.

[Thomas Lew]

lol jaggies. good word.

[Walt Mitchell]

If you have the light then try a 100 or 120 shutter.

I didn't know if it was also better to shoot either progressive or interlaced or 30 or 60 to reduce the jaggies or zaggies or whatever that stairstepping effect is called.

[matt s.]

progressive for sure. are you transcoding to another format? that could be where your problem lies also.

[Walt Mitchell]

It's not terrible, it's just subtely annoying.

I'll be getting Neo Scene (I tried the demo).

Anybody know the best template to open the converted files in Vegas?

[KKeller]

Check your horizontal and vertical detail levels on your scene file

[Walt Mitchell]

Thanks all.

[Bassman2003]

Lower the main detail setting to a -2. You can keep vertical detail to 0 +1 or +2 as it does not have as much influence on jaggies.

Then apply sharpening in post to make up for the loss of detail.

Test to your liking!

[Bill615]

How would you recommend correcting/eliminating the jaggies in post? I shot a first communion last week and the problem is noticeable as the kids walk up and down the steps to the altar. This is my first official HD project.

I shot it in PH mode 1080/60i. Iris all the way open, 60 shutter, no gain, manual focus.

I loaded it into Vegas without using an intermediate codec using the HD1080-60i project settings. When I rendered it out to an DVD NTSC file the jaggies were terrible with the stock variable bit rate settings. When I changed to a constant bitrate of 8,000,000, it improved some, but still (I think) a little worse than the SD footage we use to shoot with a PD-170.

A friend recommended rendering first to an HDV file and then to the DVD NTSC constant bit rate file, but that didn't help either.

Any suggestions?

Bill