Test clips shot with Panasonic Lumix TS1/FT1, sports scene mode, AVCHD SH quality (17Mbps). Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9.0 editor, rendered w/ Sony AVC codec (4Mbps), saturation and luminosity boost. Sony's AVC codec appears to still target MAC so gamma-adjusted for PC color display.
Thank you! That's a great tip. The ghost artifacts were very evident when I rendered with & w/o resampling in Xvid, then viewed the two results frame-by-frame in virtualdub.
I've re-rendered this footage and posted. It does look smoother in HD widescreen.
Still don't understand why the artifacts are there. Its not like Vegas needed to interpolate any new frames since the in/out fps are the same.
terraXR 2 years ago