Vegas and a PSD - blurry?

[David Delaney]

I am working on a large 2000 X 2000 pixel PSD - I have brought it into Vegas 7 and I am working with it, but when I render it out (using Project settings 720 X 480), it is jagged and blurry. What should I do to fix this?

[Edward Troxel]

What are you doing to it? Are you zooming in and panning? If yes, are you using Track Motion or Pan/Crop? For zooming and panning, you MUST use Pan/Crop. Also, you should render using "Best".

[David Delaney]

I was using the Track tool for some 3D moves on the text. But I think it is because I have zoomed in too close to the text, but it still seems weird. Thanks Ed.

[Andrew Kufahl]

Can we assume that it isn't blurry/jagged while editing and previewing it? If that's true, could you get more specific about your render settings? What file format (wmv, mov, mpeg...)? What bitrate?

[Edward Troxel]

Go ahead and use Track Motion for the 3D stuff. But use Pan/Crop to zoom in. Pan/Crop uses the full resolution of the image. Track Motion uses the resolution of the video display. So, for example, if you were using a 2000x2000 image on NTSC DV, Pan/Crop would use the 2000x2000 size while Track Motion would use the 720x480 after it had resized to fit.