All video clips turned red on timeline and lost picture?

[John Rofrano]

[James Rudge] “it is infact only the files that i converted in avidemux to avi files that have lost their picture”

What codec did you use in the AVI files? Red frames are usually a resource issue.

~jr

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[James Rudge]

mjpeg

i converted mpeg movie ones and mts fils to mjpeg avi files

the mpeg ones wree fine and the mts ones had interlace problems as you know but now there both not appearing at all

[John Rofrano]

Thats odd. You shouldn’t be having problems with M-JPEG. Are you using Vegas Pro 64-bit or 32-bit?

~jr

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[James Rudge]

yeah its weird they were fine and now i cant get it playing

is there anyway i can reset them to their source file or something.

and vegas 8 32 bit

im still trying to get my vegas 10 trial but having problems geting vista sp2

[John Rofrano]

[James Rudge] “and vegas 8 32 bit”

Depending on how big your project is, working with HD on a 32-bit system is very resource constrained. How much memory do you have? (sorry I didn’t ask this earlier) Adding more memory and moving up to Windows 7 64-bit might be you next move. As I said, red frames is usually is a low resource situation.

Open the windows Task Manager and see how much memory you have available once the project is loaded. I’m guessing it will be a very low amount.

~jr

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[James Rudge]

i work off my external hard drive but on the computers hard drive i only have about 30gb left

on task manager under “performance and under memory ot says 2gb and under processes it says 68% physical memory?

also says this under physical memory on performance tab:

Total: 3069
Cached: 1476
Free: 1

[James Rudge]

ive just had a slight suspision that i imported them accidently striaght from the sd card and now that i have removed them from that and put on my hard drive is there anyway i can sort that.

actually that cant be it as i placed the converted ones on the hard drive. does the source file still have to be in same folder

getting very frustrated

[John Rofrano]

[James Rudge] “Free: 1”

I think you may have found the problem. It looks like you are out of memory. Try closing all other applications to get some memory back. I know Vista does some funny caching and reports false free amounts but it does seem like you don’t have enough resources available for Vegas.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[James Rudge] “actually that cant be it as i placed the converted ones on the hard drive. does the source file still have to be in same folder”

Once you’ve converted them and pointed the project to the converted files you can archive the source. It’s not needed for your project.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[James Rudge]

just tried closing everything but the same clips still wont load and are red on timeline with no picture

i went on a vista forum which says its mornal for vista computers to have low physical memory

i think its just because ive lost the clips or something because theyre no showing picture in project media window either