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While the sea life spends the day like any other day, by drifting in the oceans, the humans share the fun in their own way. The video tries to convey the message that we should share the space with other species without getting in their way. This is going to be my entry to the Ubuntu video competition. It's comprised from previously unused footage I had lying around. Now I need to figure out how to fit this 00:57 seconds of video in just 2.5 MBs of filesize, in an unoptimized Ogg Theora version no less, and it has to be fully tagged! I foresee some sleepless nights trying to fit it. Fish footage was shot with the Canon SX200 IS digicam at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, and the kite surfing scenes were shot with my Canon HV20 close to the San Mateo bridge. HD version and .mp4 HD download here. |
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Sony Vegas does not have a proper way of removing pulldown removal on PF24 streams, but there is a hack/workaround that can work just fine for some users. There are limitations to this "fake" PF24 pulldown removal, but if someone is willing to live with these limitations, the result is acceptable. So, basically, by telling Vegas that this is HDV-24p footage (and if you run the Pro version, by creating an HDV-24p SMPTE timeline), it attempts pulldown removal. Because Vegas only supports pulldown removal from streams that have attributes (e.g. from Sony's cameras rather than the consumer Canons), the removal fails. However, if you drop the project properties *and* exporting quality to "preview" quality, Vegas drops a field and the pulldown removal is successful. Not only there are no duplicate frames used, but you get a clean output (no ghosting). In fact, the pulldown removal is frame-by-frame sync'ed to a Cineform's pulldown removed version of the clip — which tells me that the timestamp output is correct. Not only that, but Vegas does pulldown removal even more correctly than Cineform (my Cineform NeoHD seemed to completely ignore and crop-out the last 4-5 frames out of a 14 sec PF24 clip, while Vegas didn't). Here are the advantages: And, here are the limitations: Exporting in "best" quality will result in the default PF24 look when pulldown is not removed: ghosting whenever there's movement in the scene. IMAGE REMOVED IMAGE REMOVED If you are good with these limitations (quality/resolution), here's how to go about it: First, make sure your footage was shot in PF24 mode. Then, set up project properties exactly like the following image (use 1920×1080/1.0000 if you are using AVCHD sources). Vegas Platinum users, ignore any fields that don't show up in your version. This step is for Vegas Pro users only: Then, edit. After you are done editing, export using the SonyAVC filetype. I simply modified an existing template below, some of these form fields are editable: IMAGE REMOVED IMAGE REMOVED IMAGE REMOVED If you decide to export using the MainConcept h.264 encoder instead of SonyAVC's (available for customization only in Vegas Pro), then you can use VBR bitrate to achieve better quality (e.g. 5 mbps average, 9 mbps max). So, test it, and see if you are happy with what you get. In most cases, it should look fine enough. Otherwise, buy Cineform NeoSCENE ($129), or use the freeware method tutorials (HDV, AVCHD). |
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