Unbelievable

disjecta

disjecta

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So I decided to try out the Vegas 5/DVD Architect 2.0 combo for the first time last night. I'm an Avid and Premiere Pro user for the most part but the idea of creating a 24p DVD really intrigued me.

I slapped a quick 24fps edit together of 24pa clips I captured from my DVX...no color correction, no effects (the in-camera color is so good to begin with, it's saved me hours of salvaging in post).

I then created a 24p DVD using DVDA and the results were just phenomenal. Almost as good as the camera original. What a difference progressive makes, no interlace artifacts whatsoever. No softening of the image and the color remained pure.

I'm so excited I had to share it with people who care. Most of my friends don't get into the technical side of this stuff so my excitement is lost on them :)

Although I'm not thrilled with the Vegas interface, the results of my test last night has yielded the best looking DVD I've ever created, comparable to commercial quality.

Highly recommended.
 
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I'm glad you like vegas and see it for what it can do unlike skettalee.(sorry john)
I have been using vegas since 4.0 and haven't even started to unlock the possibilities that vegas holds tight in her beautiful hands. I have been thinking about doing some 24p weddings just to see how they turn out. what settings did you use to render?

p.s. you said almost as good as the original. What do you mean?
 
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When I said "almost" what I meant was there is always some degradation of the image when it goes through a compression cycle. It's noticeable when you've got your nose up against the screen (some slight artifacts in darker areas but that's inherent in commercial DVDs also), not when you sit back at a normal viewing distance. When you are watching it normally, I don't think you could tell the difference.

I am used to coming from an interlaced world and working with video that severely degraded going to DVD, softening, color changes, etc.

I used the regular 24p widescreen settings in Vegas, rendered using the 24p DVDA template and then just dropped it into DVDA and created the DVD. No recompression was needed because DVDA recognized the file format from Vegas.

If you are not completely clear about anything I have explained here, read the Sony 24P Whitepaper. It explains it in detail...or ask me to clarify.

Cheers,

Steven
 
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[quote author=disjecta link=board=Vegas;num=1084984018;start=0#0 date=05/19/04 at 09:26:57]Although I'm not thrilled with the Vegas interface, the results of my test last night has yielded the best looking DVD I've ever created, comparable to commercial quality.

Highly recommended.[/quote]

There was a recent thread on DMN on how to get to Vegas' internal settings so that the interface could be made more Premiere-like (tracks on bottom).  I did it -- it works, and I've saved it as a preset when working with people who prefer that layout.  I personally prefer the standard Vegas layout, because I never had any luck with Premiere.
 
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Okay, this only works in Vegas 5. WARNING: Messing with Internal Vegas settings can cause problems if you don't know what you're doing -- be very careful.

Here we go....

From the Options menu, click on "Preferences..." while holding the [Shift] key down.

You'll now notice an extra tab in the Options dialog called "Internal." Click on that tab.

At the bottom of the dialog there is a text box called "Show only prefs containing:" -- enter "top" into this box.

Now change the Value for "Frame Dock at the Top" from FALSE (it's default value) to TRUE.

Click OK -- tada! ... a "standard" interface. I saved this layout with [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[D], then [2] (the standard Vegas layout is on [1]). Now I can happily go back and forth.

I like this better than undocking and moving windows as the program menu and toolbar remain at the top of the window where they belong.
 
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