VV4 MPEG2 render quality not as crisp as VV3, need suggestions

AVERAGEJOE wrote on 7/12/2003, 9:40 PM

I have searched and found only one thread:
Motion Blur as Default = Lower Video Quality

This did not help me as VV4's MPEG2 renders have softer edges than VV3, and not even close when it comes to crispness. It has nothing to do with the bitrate. It says that Motion blur is not active unless an envelope is used, but I am wasting a lot of time in trying to edit in VV4 but VV3 cannot read VV4 proejct files.

Suggestions????

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mikkie wrote on 7/13/2003, 12:28 PM

If you render to mpg2 from VV 3 or 4, you're using the same mpg2 encoder - VV4 overwrites the Mainconcept files in the shared plugin folder anyways. SO if a current render in VV3 seems sharper, then I would guess it has it has something to so with how Vegas 4 handles the source files before it hands them off to the mainconcept encoder portion. Easy way to tell would be to render to whatever format avi in both and compare the results - then perhaps try a different type of source and see what happens.

Not a cure but somewhere to explore perhaps.

If you're comparring current mpg2 with prior renders from VV3, then it might work to put the VV3 plugins back in the shared plugin folder overwriting the VV4 stuff - not sure at all if it would work, or if there are other files that would have to be hunted up (would need to check the cab folder for the version 3 setup for mpg2 and see what's there).

Purely guessing, might want to make sure you're not altering fps from source, might want to try progressive versus interlaced, with either method setting in the proj properties, might try checking/unchecking the box under mpg2 options for Allow field based motion compensation.