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Inexplicable dropouts on TIMELINE only?
Okay, this one has me stumped.
In the course of a 75 minute documentary feature, I’ve got about 5 – 6 points in the movie where it “drops out” for no clear reason. I mean, there is about a half second worth of BLACK on the screen where footage should be. The sound is still audible as normal.
Seems like a dropout, right? Only when I look back to the footage, there’s no dropout on the tape. When I examine the original footage in the trimmer, there’s also no dropout of any kind! I’ve tried re-adding the same footage from the trimmer to the timeline, but the “false dropout” keeps appearing!
Any ideas what could be causing this?
Thanks so much in advance.
R Gould
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5 Replies
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Only thing I can think of is that you have left a short segment either on the mean timeline or above it.
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You are probably seeing the computer not being able to keep up with the material. If you are seeing this in your preview window and your setting is anything but preview automatic, change it to that. The quality of the preview takes a hit but it can usually keep up. Also check to see how much memory you have reserved for ram previews. You might try changing that to 0 and see if the problem disappears. You would have to change it back to something decent if you were going to do a ram preview. I’m betting that if you take your time line and render it out that the ‘drop outs’ would not be there.
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Out of curiosity, are you using HDV footage with Vegas 7?
If so, this is a well known problem with NO guaranteed solution other than to upgrade to Vegas 8 Pro.
Do a search on the Sony Vegas forums using black frames as the search string.
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Mike, thanks, I looked at the old threads. It’s clearly the same issue.
My question is, let’s say I upgrade to Vegas 8 Pro this weekend. Will I have a lot of compatibility issues with my old .veg files? I have to render a MAJOR project this weekend (been editing for a year) and so I’m debating between living with the black frames in the exhibition tape (blah) or trying to upgrade to Vegas 8 and risk something changing in my .veg files.
Thoughts? Any help is appreciated.
Gould
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I’ve been on holidays the last few days so I hope I’m not too late on this.
Upgrading to Vegas 8 Pro won’t affect any files currently on your system.
I do have to add one caution though and that is, if you do upgrade, to immediately save any critical project(s) under a new filename after opening them in the newer version..
For example, if the Vegas 7 file is MyMovie.veg, save the new one as MyMovie-V8.veg.
You may also want to consider creating a new folder (call it Vegas 8 Vegs), copy the Vegas 7 vegs to it, open and re-save them under the new name.
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