• VEGAS Pro

  FRAPS AVI Black Screen

  Posted by Ryan O’brian on February 7, 2013 at 4:16 am

  Hello there, I use Sony Vegas Pro 12.

  Someone I know, and I have been having issues with FRAPS AVIs. They have been randomly blacking out in the video for no reason, and it seems like they just choose to go black.

  The Preview goes black, as well as the rendered version. I can fix this by removing the clip and re-adding it, but I’d like to permanently fix this if possible.

  If it helps, here is the information of one of the blacked out clips.

  General
Complete name : D:\Tour\mafia2 2013-02-06 22-03-39-18.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 3.95 GiB
Duration : 3mn 28s
Overall bit rate : 163 Mbps

  Video
  ID : 0
  Format : Fraps
  Codec ID : FPS1
  Duration : 3mn 28s
  Bit rate : 157 Mbps
  Width : 1 280 pixels
  Height : 720 pixels
  Display aspect ratio : 16:9
  Frame rate : 60.000 fps
  Color space : YUV
  Bit depth : 8 bits
  Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.832
  Stream size : 3.80 GiB (96%)

  Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 3mn 28s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 6 144 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 192 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 153 MiB (4%)
Interleave, duration : 998 ms (59.87 video frames)

  I will post the black screen on Vegas soon, thanks.

  Ryan O’brian replied 13 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Odd Mathisen

  February 7, 2013 at 10:30 am

  I had a similar problem when rendering earlier.
  If this is the same issue you’re having(black screen in rendered footage, even though source footage looks ok) do the following:

  Click the options drop down at the top in vegas.
  Click Preferences.
  Under the “General” tab look for “Close media files when not the active application.”
  Make sure that selection is not enabled.

  Basically what the setting does is clear media file usage as soon as you deselect the Vegas window, which most people do when rendering footage.
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  Ryan O’brian

  February 8, 2013 at 11:00 pm

  Thanks, I hope this will work.

  I appreciate the help.

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