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The interlacing is normal. But notice how the middle frame shows the player in more than two positions. That's why I put the other ones up for reference. I did try playing around with the interlace settings and that's actually when the trouble started. Don't know if their related though. The thing is the video is interlaced to begin with so encoding it progressive wouldn't help. I don't know how to properly de-interlace (not even those jpeg screencaps) and I've heard that it often makes the video worse unless you do it absolutely right.

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"Take back the trilogy. Execute Order '77"

DAMN! That's FANTASTIC! LOL!

Okay, it's been awhile, so remind me.

Under Project Properties,
- is Field Order set to lower ?
- is Deinterlace method set to none ?

Of course, since your video is that of fast movement (hockey), then you might not be able to get away from the "ghosting" you see, but we should be able to minimize it more.

BTW, the reason you are seeing three positions of the same hockey player in one frame is because Vegas is interpolating - mixing information from adjacent frames to create a new frame. Unless you are using slow-mo by a slow percentage, or on video that doesn't have a lot of movement, then I wouldn't recommend using Vegas for this.

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Just to add to my list - I've gotten a new 300GB PATA drive, and my 320GB SATA is in the mail. I may need a third computer soon

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Lower field first. I believe deinterlace method is set to none. The thing is why is it interpolating more frames now (middle) than it was before (top)?

I've actually had that signature for a while. I first posted it under X0 logo design but I don't know how to make t-shirt designs. I guess it does leave the question, when will the EU book come out that lists what every clone order # does?

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Okay...so, to what extent (percentage) are you slowing down the video? I remember having to slow some fast moving video way down, and the ghosting was horrendous.

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I believe it's less than half speed. It's not a round number as I just stretched the video as I saw fit. However, all the screencaps are at the same speed.

By the way, the problem I wrote about dropped frames, I think it's because some of the rough parts of the video are just too taxing on my computer's cpu. 90% of the time they occur at tape scratches or vcr edits with the fuzzy rainbow line. No drop if I record the tape to a dvd recorder, then capture from the dvd.

Here are smaller preview versions of the images that don't show the interlace lines.

Before
[url=http://www.uploadfile.info]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/b90438352f.jpg[/url]

After
[url=http://www.uploadfile.info]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/f8ae93e2f5.jpg[/url]

Resample Disabled
[url=http://www.uploadfile.info]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/7197415708.jpg[/url]

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"I believe it's less than half speed."

Then you don't want to do it with Vegas. It'll never look good at that speed.

"90% of the time they occur at tape scratches or vcr edits with the fuzzy rainbow line.:

That's not terribly unusual.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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"Well, watching it in motion, it looked fine to me at the "before" stage."

Do you mean "before" you tried to slow down the motion? If so, this isn't surprising, since this is "before" Vegas had to mess with it to get it down to speed.

"What's PATA and SATA with hard drives? "

PATA is the old "Parallel" hard drive connector, the super-wide, skinny connector.

SATA is the new "Serial" hard drive connector, whose connector is a fraction of the size.

SATA drives are faster on paper, but not by a whole lot more in real life. The best thing I can say about them is that stores have dropped prices on the older PATA drives as a result, which is fine by me. (I just happened to get a good price on the few SATA drives I do have, and one was donated for the X0 Project.)

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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No, I mean I had rendered the avi file with the slow motion and it had looked good. The "before" is a reference to the screenshot which is from a rendered final avi video file. I burned that video file to a dvd.
The screenshot labeled "resample disabled" shows how it originally looked, without any interpolation. When I rendered the video together, the slow motion clip turned out to look like the "before" screen. Watching the dvd, I was happy with how that looked. About a year later, the same rendering process made the final edited avi file look like the "after" screen. Watching slow motion clips rendered since then has looked a lot worse.

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