Sharper Images for Tutorial?

garo wrote on 3/17/2007, 2:30 AM

I would like much better sharpness in rendered videos for a simple Vegas Beginners Tutorial in Swedish. To make it as simple as possable I am using screen dumps (still images about 720x576) that look great in the Preview window but when rendered out to various formats are far too blurry. My final format would be mpeg or possibly Flash - how do I get the sharpest possable results?

TIA! Garo

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garo wrote on 3/17/2007, 9:34 AM

No one?

Marco. wrote on 3/17/2007, 10:25 AM

You might try using a special screen capture software and let the final product have same resolution like the screen had. Lower the screen resolution might help too. Any kind of scaling in the process has a bad influence. Showing hi-res screens in sd resolutions like PAL is not a good way to go.

Marco

Per1 wrote on 3/17/2007, 2:36 PM

Tutorial in Swedish - published when? Where?

For screen movies - check out Camtasia - does a pretty good job with a basic editor. Not close to Vegas of course!

Perhaps you can import the AVI from Camtasia into Vegas.

Camtasia also do Flash.

Jøran Toresen wrote on 3/17/2007, 3:38 PM

Garo

First of all, make sure your Vegas settings are optimal. These are the settings I use when cropping video or for still photos:

Project settings:
* Full resolution rendering quality: Best
* Motion blur type: Gaussian
* Deinterlace method: Blend fields

Event switches:
* Maintain Aspect Ratio
* Reduce interlace flicker
* Smart resample or Force resample

Next, use a good screen capture utility. You could try FastStone Image Viewer 3.0. (Under File-Screen Capture there are several options.) You can download the program from download.com, see:

http://www.download.com/FastStone-Image-Viewer/3000-2192_4-10642924.html?tag=lst-0-1

Jøran Toresen
Oslo, Norway