Sony Vegas heat wave ripple issue

I made some animations in After Effects and saved them as QUICK TIME MPEG4 files.

They come out to about 200mb when rendered and look great when played back by themselves.

When I put them into Vegas with the rest of my project and do the final rendering no matter if it's an AVI or WMV file the After Effects animations

look like you are watcing them thru a pizza oven door.

Meaning "heat wave" looking ripples are all over the screen but just for those shots.

Vegas turns the smooth animations into crap!

Any ideas?

I've also tried saving them as photojpegs like Andrew Kramer suggests on videocopilot but it doesn't make a difference.

Have you tried rendering as TIFF images?

This would limit any compression involved, and then you could import them as an image sequence into your project. Also be sure your AE settings match your Vegas project settings (size, framerate, etc.) Re-sizing or changes in framerate or re-compression can cause the effect you are seeing, at least in earlier versions of Final Cut (not a Vegas user, sorry.) The last 2 FCPs (6 & 7) handle such changes pretty well.

Hope this helps!

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I second averything crash says, but you might also try to right-click your clips in Vegas, and make sure they're not being deinterlaced by Vegas. Some applications (including Vegas, as I recall) will automatically deinterlace your clip if it's a standard TV resolution.

Problem solved! Very Happy

Went in like you suggested and right clicked on properties for the troubled clips and selected REDUCE INTERLACE FLICKER and now no more heat wave ripples. Very Happy

Thanks so much for helping me out! Cool

I'm glad it helped, but that's not really what I meant, and I think what you have achieved is just a cheap fix (that propably also reduces your image's effective resolution), you can do one notch better:

You need to go to the next tab, "Media", and there's a field that says "field order", which propably says "upper field first" or "lower field first". Set that to "none (progressive scan)", and you're a happier man with better video quality.

YES! you are right again. Thanks for taking the time to follow back up on this.

You saved my ass on this one!!!!!! Laughing

As a follow, how can one *intentionally* create those heat wave effects in Vegas?

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Planet Hollywood Hotel Vegas Las Vegas I'm glad it helped, but that's not really what I meant, and I think what you have achieved is just a cheap fix (that propably also reduces your image's effective resolution), you can do one notch better:

You need to go to the next tab, "Media", and there's a field that says "field order", which propably says "upper field first" or "lower field first". Set that to "none (progressive scan)", and you're a happier man with better video quality.

Was having similar problem. Sometimes the solution is so simple but would still be trying to figure out. Thanks for the post, TR

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I'm glad it helped, but that's not really what I meant, and I think what you have achieved is just a cheap fix (that propably also reduces your image's effective resolution), you can do one notch better:
You need to go to the next tab, "Media", and there's a field that says "field order", which propably says "upper field first" or "lower field first". Set that to "none (progressive scan)", and you're a happier man with better video quality.
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Was having similar problem. Sometimes the solution is so simple but would still be trying to figure out. Thanks for the post, TR

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Ahaaaaaa. I wish I would have read this post sooner rather than later but I am so relieved to see that there is a quick fix to this madness.
Thanks!

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I'm glad it helped, but that's not really what I meant, and I think what you have achieved is just a cheap fix (that propably also reduces your image's effective resolution), you can do one notch better:
You need to go to the next tab, "Media", and there's a field that says "field order", which propably says "upper field first" or "lower field first". Set that to "none (progressive scan)", and you're a happier man with better video quality.
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Was having similar problem. Sometimes the solution is so simple but would still be trying to figure out. Thanks for the post, TR

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Ahaaaaaa. I wish I would have read this post sooner rather than later but I am so relieved to see that there is a quick fix to this madness.
Thanks!

I can't seem to locate "field order"... UGHHHH I am frustrated!

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I'm glad it helped, but that's not really what I meant, and I think what you have achieved is just a cheap fix (that propably also reduces your image's effective resolution), you can do one notch better:
You need to go to the next tab, "Media", and there's a field that says "field order", which propably says "upper field first" or "lower field first". Set that to "none (progressive scan)", and you're a happier man with better video quality.

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Was having similar problem. Sometimes the solution is so simple but would still be trying to figure out. Thanks for the post, TR

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Ahaaaaaa. I wish I would have read this post sooner rather than later but I am so relieved to see that there is a quick fix to this madness.
Thanks!

I can't seem to locate "field order"... UGHHHH I am frustrated!

any luck :/??
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