So I’ve just spent the day really enjoying doing the full Mandalore cut. I’m really happy with it. But technical issues are letting me down.
- Mediainfo reads the original source mkv files as 23.976fps
- Mediainfo reads the ripped mp4 video files as 23.976fps
- In the media window of Vegas Movie Studio when selected, it recognises the files as 23.976fps
- When I check the file properties in Vegas, it recognises the files as 25.000fps (greyed out)
- When the project settings and ruler ate at 25.000fps, the frames align to the ruler
- When the project settings and ruler are at 23.976fps, the frames do not align
- I’m still able to render at 23.976fps, and both seem OK? Take a look:
Rendered when the project is set at 23.976:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tM-wU5cE9WK-9IvZcVfV8hxF2n5w2uHk/view?usp=sharing
Rendered when the project is set at 25.000:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1udn2HmHR3y6JVBB7EyE54-iqBwHVDm3-/view?usp=sharing
I can’t tell if those have any blurring, duplicated frames, missing frames, or any other issues. I’ve turned off resampling for all media.
The other thing you can see there is that I have crushed blacks. I’m passing all media through the Studio RGB to Computer RGB default colour levels filter, which seems necessary because otherwise my blacks aren’t true black on starfields, titles etc. They’re dark grey. And weirdly, the render has the crushed blacks but the preview itself doesn’t, so I don’t know where in the process this issue’s emerging.