Exporting problem with Vegas.

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Sun May 04, 2008 9:35 pm

I have been having problems with my video for the last week. I am able to export it easily, but there's a problem when I reach post-production. You see, I have parody subs for this which are vital for the humor of the video. When I go to clean up my footage, I can get my anime footage quality to get better, but as a result, my subs become unreadable.

Should I try exporting out using a specific codec? I've been using Lagarith lately.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sun May 04, 2008 9:53 pm

Should have cleaned your footage in pre-production. :\

Here's what I would suggest though. I'm guessing all of your subtitles are in one layer of you video project (seems like they should be, it sounds like it would make things easier). Mute the subtitle track (or otherwise drop the opacity on them so they can't be seen). Render out the video without the subs. Clean the video. Bring the video back into Vegas and line it back up properly. Turn the subs back on over the new filtered file and mute all the other video tracks and audio tracks (keep the video and audio of the filtered file on). Export a final. Voila - subs without AviSynth filters screwing them up.

Hope that all makes sense.

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:00 pm

LivingFlame wrote:Should have cleaned your footage in pre-production. :\

Here's what I would suggest though. I'm guessing all of your subtitles are in one layer of you video project (seems like they should be, it sounds like it would make things easier). Mute the subtitle track (or otherwise drop the opacity on them so they can't be seen). Render out the video without the subs. Clean the video. Bring the video back into Vegas and line it back up properly. Turn the subs back on over the new filtered file and mute all the other video tracks and audio tracks (keep the video and audio of the filtered file on). Export a final. Voila - subs without AviSynth filters screwing them up.

Hope that all makes sense.

Well, two are in another layer, but that's about it. I have already put in the cleaned video and exported it, but it goes back to what it was before.

I'm going to try exporting the footage from Vegas uncompressed instead of Lagarith or HuffYUV. I'll let you know if that works.

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:31 pm

Turns out it didn't work. I did what you did with the footage and put it back into Vegas with Lagarith. Then, I rendered it again uncompressed and it's the same thing.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:44 pm

cleaning your video pre-production is actually the solution...

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Mon May 05, 2008 5:33 am

So I'm going to have to start over, no?

Thank God, most of the footage was only from a few episodes.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Mon May 05, 2008 6:25 am

you can try taking the clips you have and clean them with avisynth and save them in a new folder but with the same file names...

then just delete the original folder, and redirect vegas to the new folder... as long as the clips are the same length then it shouldn't be a problem.

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Mon May 05, 2008 11:39 pm

Thank you for your time.

I did that twice. First, I took the clips, AVISynth them, and then exported them with Lagarith. I looked at the guide again, and I noticed that I should be exporting my scenes out with HuffYUV in RGB. I did this and did the replacing a second time.

I just now looked into Vegas and I noticed the frame in the Vegas preview was worse in color and quality by a significant amount compared to the exported cut AVIs.

I've tried exporting the non-sub footage from Vegas out with a HuffYUV set at RGB and put that video back in and it doesn't work.

Kumatora · Post by **Kumatora** » Fri May 09, 2008 11:25 pm

Well, here's the update so far.

I've replaced the footage with counterparts that are 848x480 instead of 720x480 and the footage was saved and exported at 23.976 FPS with HuffyUV in RGB. In the end, the quality for the video turns out great. Now, I have the issue with the subtitles. I'm looking at them in Virtual Dub and some letters change sizes depending on the frame.

Also, I've also noticed that a "dust" look is on the video, but I honestly think this is Virtual Dub fooling me. One episode I put into Virtual Dub didn't have it and another did and they both came out fine. Any particular reason this happening? My "guess" is that the software "tires" itself out after continuous use in one sitting.