Slow motion conversion problem- Please help!
 

I recently shot a BMX jam and I shot some clips overcranked at 60p. I encoded the overcranked clips into avi's using Adobe Media Encoder at 59.94 fps using the Matrox MPEG 2 I-frame HD codec.

I brought the clip into Vegas 9 and the slow motion played great in the timeline. But when I rendered a clip out using the MainConcept MPEG 2 codec using HDV 720 at 30p I got ghosting on the bike rider's movement. The same thing happened when I rendered out to Blu-Ray 1080 at 30p with the MainConcept MPEG 2 codec. The same thing also happened when I rendered out to Quicktime using sorenson 3 compression.

Anyone have any tips on how to eliminate the ghosting while still using Media Encoder and Vegas 9?

Thanks!

Jason Ryan
Director
Psychicflyingmonkey Productions
www.psychicflyingmonkey.com

Re: Slow motion conversion problem- Please help!
 

You could try removing the 'Smart Resample' from the slow motion clip in Vegas. Clip => Right-click => Properties => Disable Resample. On the project level I also prefer to De-interlace to none when I have non-interlaced footage going to non-interlaced output (e.g. web or computer playback)

Re: Slow motion conversion problem- Please help!
 

Thanks so much, Mike. That did the trick.

Jason Ryan
Director
Psychicflyingmonkey Productions
Psychicflyingmonkey Productions- Film Production and BMX