To test my two points (ghosting, AVCHD bitrate), you must:
1. Use interlaced content (most users shoot interlaced). Must have some motion.
2. Use blend fields in the project properties, which is the Vegas default. Creates ghosting.
3. Slow-mo that content, to see the resampling kick in (default). Creates *additional* ghosting.
4. When exporting via SonyAVC, you _must_ pick an AVCHD template to edit and try to export in over 16 mbps. Won’t let you do it.

Then, redo the same thing, but with interpolation as deinterlacing, and with resampling disabled. NOTICE the much cleaner output you get this way!

So, without doing these steps exactly as I said above, then you testing my claims can’t be done correctly, because they don’t apply to the issues I described.

Oh, come on now, I was referring to the two lines cited above and was never mentioning point 4 of the original article.
Why would I want to argue with you, or disprove any point? It now looks neither of us reads what the other writes.

> Please stop replying, you are in the wrong.
Sorry I did – but you can delete the post
All the best, get well, M.

If you can not understand what I am writing here, then please do NOT reply and pollute this thread with things that are going to confuse the future readers of this article.

The ghosting problem from blending fields is for INTERLACED content, which is what most camcorders shoot at. I talked about interlacing, and you bloody used a 24p progressive file to disprove my point???? Where’s the logic in that? And besides, even with 24p, if you change the frame rate or slow-mo the file, you will get ghosting because of resampling (which is a different issue to de-interlacing’s ghosting).

>and custom export to mp4 using Sony AVC codec (up to 20mbps).

JEEZ. You DID NOT try to export as AVCHD, using an actual AVCHD template, and THEN try to export at 20 mbps. You will see that if you try that, the dialog RESETS the bitrate number back to 16 mbps. But in order to see the problem you have to SPECIFICALLY choose to edit an AVCHD exporting template.

You have so many things tangled in your mind that need untangling. You need to learn more, and read more carefully. This is a lot like I am telling you that “I am going to fry some potatoes in oil”, and you reply “here’s some water to boil them”. That’s the kind of non-understanding you have right now, which doesn’t sit well with me. Please stop replying, you are in the wrong.

> There’s no point trying to debunk what’s already acknowledged
It’s farthest away from my mind, I am just trying to understand what the limitations you write about really mean for me. It appears Vegas Platinum can deal with Panasonic SD9 24p AVCHD files (without prior pulldown removal), and custom export to mp4 using Sony AVC codec (up to 20mbps). If it is indeed true, it is good enough for me, I can always use tsmuxer to burn an AVCHD dvd if needed.
Thanks for suffering my ignorance, I am coming from still photography background

I can’t see how. I want to input specific numbers/percentages. The dialog that let’s you do that only goes up to 4x. And I definitely don’t want to export and re-speed it.

>screenshot here. Did you mean something else

I meant the AVCHD exports. You didn’t try to export in AVCHD, that’s why it worked for you. AVCHD should go up to 24 mbps. Please be more careful of what I speak about.

>Also, I cannot see any ghosting problems

Ghosting is there with blend fields (and resampling under some conditions, e.g. frame rate changes). Interpolation is much cleaner. ARE YOU SURE you exported with blend fields? Also, your shutter speed is really high in that video, that’s not how most people shoot.

There’s no point trying to debunk what’s already acknowledged by people who know what they are talking about btw. You already made a mistake above not reading carefully what I meant, I am thinking that the ghosting issue is one such case too. You probably already exported with interpolation.

I miss stabilization plugin, changing velocity of the clip and audio as well (you can change the sound by shrinking the file but you can not create nice slow ramped video with Velocity curves)

I would also love better options with masking, better usage of transparency layers (when adding titles and graphics).

Whenever i have to fiddle with colors, i have to use after effects. Final cut and premier users get to use a lot of fantastic plugins.

But no matter what, i am not switching to anything else for editing. Vegas is definately the most user friendly editing app out there