Hello, I only just discovered Blender’s video editing capability, and I’m very excited to try it, but without adding any filters or changing anything, I find that my outgoing video has a cell shaded, cartoonish look to it. I’m loving everything else so far, but this look has got to be something I can fix, right? I selected xvid as my output format, but I think this look was there before I even did that. Here is a sample of what my video normally looks like:
Does the footage look screwed up inside the VSE, or does it happen only when you export it out?
What I would do is make sure you are running the latest version of Blender. Then open up a brand new Blender file, go to the VSE, import a different piece of footage, select the same encoding, and render out the first 5-10 frames. Then do the same thing, but with a different encoding and container. Don’t limit yourself to one encoding and one source file. Experiment around with different settings and different sources. Isolate the problem.
There’s a possibility that you are trans-coding between unfriendly formats, so it would be helpful to know what your source file specs are and to see a screenshot of your Output and Encoding boxes from the Properties panel.
Yup, latest version of Blender, I only just downloaded it a few days ago. The source video is uncompressed. It is output from virtualDub, if anyone around here uses that - I’m using it to screen capture from my 3D app.
Unfortunately, I have to go to work right now but I will attempt some other source footage and encodings this evening, and post screenshots. Thanks again!
UPDATE: my problem appears to be related to virtualDub. I just found out about openBroadcaster and tried it out, and output from there (using flv format) does not appear to have the bug.
