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Tony Spring August 3rd, 2008 12:40 AM

Rendering Filters
 
I've noticed that some filters don't render as they look in the preview, they render less extreme. For instance Vitascene's defocus filter renders much less blurred than it looks on the preview. Also when I render film effects the grain, hairs, spots etc look much less extreme.

Anybody know why this might be?

Mike Kujbida August 3rd, 2008 04:12 AM

Is your preview window set to Best/Full?

Graham Bernard August 3rd, 2008 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Tony Spring (Post 915798)
Also when I render film effects the grain, hairs, spots etc look much less extreme.

This is starting to "ring-a-bell"? What version, release and build of Vegas are you using?

Grazie

Tony Spring August 4th, 2008 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike Kujbida (Post 915825)
Is your preview window set to Best/Full?

No I use preview/auto. When I render to new track the render looks very different.

Tony Spring August 4th, 2008 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Graham Bernard (Post 916096)
This is starting to "ring-a-bell"? What version, release and build of Vegas are you using?

Grazie

I'm using Pro 8b with Cineform intermediate files, renders are to Cineform too.

Mike Kujbida August 4th, 2008 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Tony Spring (Post 916111)
No I use preview/auto. When I render to new track the render looks very different.

With that setting, I'd expect it to look different.
The resolution of the Preview window on preview/auto is half of what it is for best/full.
Look at the numbers in the bottom left corner of the preview window and you'll see what I mean.
I get the same "lower quality" effect if I'm previewing text.
At preview/auto, it looks soft and fuzzy.
At best/full, it's crisp and clear.
If you can't do a proper preview at the setting, do a RAM render of a short piece.

Tony Spring August 5th, 2008 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike Kujbida (Post 916124)
With that setting, I'd expect it to look different.
The resolution of the Preview window on preview/auto is half of what it is for best/full.
Look at the numbers in the bottom left corner of the preview window and you'll see what I mean.
I get the same "lower quality" effect if I'm previewing text.
At preview/auto, it looks soft and fuzzy.
At best/full, it's crisp and clear.
If you can't do a proper preview at the setting, do a RAM render of a short piece.

But if the render and the unrendered event are compared on the same timeline in the same preview window shouldn't they look exactly the same?

John Rofrano August 5th, 2008 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Tony Spring (Post 916610)
But if the render and the unrendered event are compared on the same timeline in the same preview window shouldn't they look exactly the same?

No, because one is an approximation of what the filter "might do" and the other is the exact result of what the filter "did" do. In the latter case the preview has the real result of the defocus so it doesn't have to approximate the FX. It's just approximating the resolution. Look at them both in Best (Full) mode. They should look the same.

~jr

Tony Spring August 10th, 2008 03:19 AM

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Originally Posted by John Rofrano (Post 916661)
No, because one is an approximation of what the filter "might do" and the other is the exact result of what the filter "did" do. In the latter case the preview has the real result of the defocus so it doesn't have to approximate the FX. It's just approximating the resolution. Look at them both in Best (Full) mode. They should look the same.

~jr

Thanks John & Mike. I understand now that "preview" is exactly that, but why do some filters render out as they look in the preview while others don't? I can't get Newblue film looks to render anything like it looks in the preview.

John Rofrano August 10th, 2008 07:58 AM

Preview is a trade-off of quality for frame rate. Some filters are light on the CPU and the preview doesn't have to sacrifice much quality to keep the frame rate up. Other filters are heavy on the CPU and so more quality is sacrificed in order to keep the frame rate acceptable. This will cause different filters to preview differently. Film Looks usually uses very CPU intensive processing so you may see more of a difference between Preview and Good or Best.

~jr


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