Rendering Ideas

[TVincent]

I am looking for some help and recommendation on my project settings and preferences. I am currently using VidoeStudio 10 Plus and am having some issues with the quality of some of my videos and pictures. Most of my projects are picture slideshows with various transitions and videos (like the sample videos that come with the program). The projects are about 10-25 minutes.

Situation I: I am having some issues with some of the video backgrounds sputtering/jerking after I render a project. I AM VIEWING THE VIDEO IN WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER.

Situation II. Also, I am having some issues with the pictures flickering on the sides and corners.

Can I please get some feedback on how I should set my project and preference setting?

Project settings: I have perform non-pixel rendering selected
General-Lower field first frame type and 720X480 frame size
Media type-NTSC DVD and the slider is set at 70%
The video data rate is at 8000.

Preferences:
Anti flickering is applied
Default field order: lower field
I am not sure if I should use cache image into memory\
Resampling type-best

Also, is it ok to have more than one Videostudio on my computer?


System Info:
Processor: Pentium D940 Duel Core 3.2
Video Card: ATI Radeon X1600 Pro PCI 512MD
4 GIG of Ram
Two 400 GIG hard drivers
XP OPERATING SYSTEM

[Ken Berry]

Have a look at this thread for starters: http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 352#124352

In your case, I would try rendering using Frame Based instead of Lower Field First (though it should work with that too) if you dealing with a slideshow (and transitions) alone. If it includes some video, you need to right click on the video files you are using to check what Field Order they have, and use that.

But whatever you do, don't use two pieces of video which have different Field Orders in the same project. You can include still images (which in effect are Frame based) and either Upper or Lower Field First video, but not have Upper and Lower Field First video clips in the same project.

And if, for instance, the video you used is really Upper Field First, and you have selected Lower Field First as your project property, then you will get jerky video, with jagged edges as a result.

And unless you are producing a 16:9 widescreen video, you might want to experiment by unticking 'Perform non-square pixel rendering'.

[Svuppe]

And if, for instance, the video you used is really Upper Field First, and you have selected Lower Field First as your project property, then you will get jerky video, with jagged edges as a result.

I would say it depends on the situation and source material used.
My previous videocam (Sony IP5) recorded directly in MPEG2 and upper field first. But when editing and making a DVD from the material, I had to set project properties to lower field first in order to avoid the jerky video.

[Ken Berry]

The IP5 was of course a camera that used the late and unlamented MicroMV system which gave a lot of people headaches -- not least of them being those of us on this Board who tried to help people get MicroMV to work with older versions of Video Studio which were made to theoretically support this medium. There was a special capture plug-in for MicroMV, quite separate from the more general one for mpeg-2 capture, though I grant you that the camera actually used that format. One of the more common complaints was of motion artifacts/pixellation during fast movement.

Still, you are the first person I can recall saying these problems were resolved by changing the Field Order.

But for the general run of cameras, I would still argue that the 'rule' against changing the original Field Order still applies. And to suggest otherwise could lead some users into bad habits and potential disappointment -- especially when the suggestion is based on a special format which even Sony gave up supporting when it became apparent it was just too problematic.

[Svuppe]

I am sorry if I have caused any confusion. This wasn't my intention.

My workflow with that camera was to first transfer the video from the camera to the PC with Sonys own software. It was horrible and at times unstable, but I got the files. Then I converted the raw MPEG2-TS files to MPEG2-PS with a small freeware utility I found somewhere on the net. And then I could load the files into VS as standard MPEG2 and edit them. I never used the MicroMV import feature in VS.
Perhaps it was this freeware converter utility that wrongly set the field order to upper? That would explain why changing it worked for me, as well as why you never heard of it before.

Actually I think it was a nice camera for its time, but now after I got a 3CCD Panasonic, I've never looked back.

[Ken Veal]

does anything here help
http://grandpasgraphics.net/vs10tutes/vs10settings.htm
regards Ken V