Have i done all i can?

[Chamber005]

Hey peoples --

So I accidentally shot my most recent webisode in 60i instead of 30p. Big boo-boo.

I coverted the file to a 30p mp4, but I notice that the vid's not completely happy with it.

Is there anything else I can do? Because of the 30 conversion I did out of Vegas Platinum, it's not awful, but should I also try maybe taking the m2t file and running it through Adobe's media encoder? Is there something in Premier Pro or CS4 that I can do? (I just got the whole Adobe package so I'm still using Vegas Platinum to edit).

Let me know! Maybe I can at least get a better version up for Exposureroom.

THANKS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_oipaoj-0k

 

[yommytacoe]

I would just edit in 60i and then deinterlace when you export. I doubt any of your viewers will be complaining about the frame rate...

 

[Chamber005]

I would just edit in 60i and then deinterlace when you export. I doubt any of your viewers will be complaining about the frame rate...

So, it was already edited in its native format (60i). I'm not sure what you mean by deinterlacing. What does that mean as it pertains to rendering?

I have a bunch of different choices out of Vegas Platinum. The vid that's on YouTube now was the 60i video rendered at 29.97fps/20mbps/"best quality"/1920X1080/1.000

I was thinking about rendering it and then taking it into Adobe Premier Pro (or after effects CS4) if you think that would help; but I'm not sure what I should render the video as out of Vegas Plat before rendering it again in Adobe (or if it would even be worth the effort).

More help please?

Thanks!!

 

[Cranky]

Looks ok to me in regards to deinterlacing, no interlacing artifacts. If you want it to look sharper you may try "interpolate" instead of "blend". It is way too dark on my monitor and lacks contrast too. Have you adjusted levels for computer viewing? Computer black is 0, not 16.

 

[Chamber005]

Looks ok to me in regards to deinterlacing, no interlacing artifacts. If you want it to look sharper you may try "interpolate" instead of "blend". It is way too dark on my monitor and lacks contrast too. Have you adjusted levels for computer viewing? Computer black is 0, not 16.

LOL...So much of all this stuff is Greek to me. I'm just a writer who picked up a camera and slapped some make-up on his buddy...

I'm slowly learning after effects and pro with the help of Videocopilot and other sources (just found a video on deinterlacing 60i to 60p that looks pretty easy). I've no idea what interpolate is or how I would go about locating it in my Vegas Platinum program that I used to edit with.

The stage I'm at right now readying the video for Exposure Room is rendering it out of Vegas Platinum. There's just so many different choices and it takes like 2 hours each time I render a 2 gig video, so I'm nervous about just randomly trying different formats. I thought the safe thing to do would be to render as AVCHD 1920X1080 as that's what was loaded into the editing program from my HF200, but maybe that's wrong?

Is the blending/interpolating somewhere in the rendering options or is it available in the actual editing program? Or are you referring to an After Effects application? I can't use After Effects until after I've rendered the video out of Vegas Plat.

And yeah -- I work on my television and I noticed a distinct difference between the colors and blacks between there and my computer screen. I'm assuming "setting the blacks" is another After Effects measure, as I don't think my Vegas Plat is that sophisticated.

Also, I noticed that when I jog my camera between 60i/30p/24p, the "progressive" modes are much brighter. Nothing should be changing in the brightness/contrast, but it's definately happening. I think since the HF200 shoots in 60i but is converting to "progressive" in the camera, it must be making more vivid the aspects that are being removed and blended...or something like that.

I should have known something was up when everything looked so dark in the viewfinder....

But, live and learn...