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Constantly plagued by Red video frames
I have vegas pro 9c, and a 3.4ghz quad core 4gb ram machine, with windows7 64bit.
I am constantly plagued by videos being red screens. Sometimes from the start, other times videos that were working fine become red. Sometimes the video will still preview/render correctly, so I can just ignore them being red in the timeline, but other times i’ll render the video only to find out it was a waste, with long sections of black screen.
In the past I just would have to quit and restart over an over, and re-render over and over till I’d get lucky and it would work. However I’m working on a project now where 2/3 of my footage will not work at all, just shows up as a red screen. They are all .avi files from a little keychain camera that I send up in an RC jet. I have actually used video from the same camera in the past with vegas, and haven’t made any changes to my system that I know of. I’ve been using avidemux to convert them in all sorts of ways, but none of the converted ones play either.
I’m so frustrated with this ridiculously expensive vegas pro that can’t even work with a simple .avi file. How can I fix this red screen issue.
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8 Replies
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Sounds like a codec issue. The AVI file is just a box with the video inside. Just because some new gadgets that produce an AVI file don’t work properly within Vegas doesn’t mean that Sony broke anything. It means that the gadget maker just stuffed an incompatible format video into an AVI container.
What codec does the camera use?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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What kind of storage are you using? Have you tried moving files to different drive and re-linking?
Lance Bachelder
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Stephen: The codec of the footage that was not working at all at the moment, according to gspot is Motion Jpeg.
I finally got it to work by using the huffuv lossless codec to convert it to a non compressed avi, although its a huge pain, time consuming, and the file sizes are now about 20 times as large.
Lance: The hard drive I’m using is a western digital caviar black 750gb, its a highly rated hard drive that’s given me no problems before.
I still on occasion thoughout my use of vegas have files that work initially become red, usually a restart (or two) of vegas makes them come back, but its just a pain. I’m just frustrating that such expensive software has so many issues.
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I have also experienced the red frame mystery. It occurs when I am adding video a track created after I’ve started a project. For example.
When I am editing with Ultimate Pro 4 and add new video clips to a track above the master video track red frames sometimes appear in the master track. Also when I have added AVI video created from the Vegas timeline and added back into the project, and when I have had Vegas opened twice to copy elements from one project to another I have gotten the frames. I do not what causes the problem, but I work around it by saving my project before I add any additional video tracks or clips other than what was initially captured for the project. This may be a memory issue and not Vegas. Let me know if you discover the cause. -
Cameron,
I had your problem with red footage in Vegas 9.0. Now I am using Vegas 10 and having the similar issue but my footage thumbnails go plain white and the preview is black like there is a hole on the timeline.
It seems it’s a random thing and I am getting really annoyed. Vegas is a very friendly piece of software and I am very used to it and that’s even more irritating.
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So did I read this right? Did you solve this by converting the files to AVI? I transcode almost everything to AVI through neoscene, as it edits better. I’ve not experienced any red files with Vegas 10.a unless the disk was somehow off line. . You might want to explore whether there is something wrong with your disk, as obviously many of us are not having the same problem you are. I’m wondering about what the guys that created your keychain camera might have done to these files. Have you seen if anyone you know has either a copy of Vegas on their machine, Final Cut Pro or Adobe to see if the problems move with them (obviously you would be transcoding with FCP). That would at least narrow it down somewhat to either your machine, Vegas or point to the camera.
Also, Did you look at your OS logs at all? See if something odd is showing up with your drives? Or run a disk tool to see if there is corruption on the drives?
Hope this is helpful. Best of luck.
Alf
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Transcoding the videos with the huffuv lossless codec did work, as far as getting those motion jpeg avi files from the mini camera to work. Its just a pain that you would have to do that for a common file, takes time, and you wind up with a file about 20 times the size.
As far as the red frame thing, no I haven’t specifically tested the hard drive, but I’m 99% sure its fine, and vegas is the issue. Since restarting vegas makes them come back. I also have experienced glitchy transitions, both in the preview, and final render of videos. Restarting vegas fixes that issue too.
Its a pain that such expensive software is so buggy, but I’ve made it a habit now to always restart vegas before rendering, and it so far hasn’t given me problems.
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Sry to hear this problem, I run Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 C, I have this issue now and then whenever I use “yourecorder” which saves video files in its own file format, and then converts it to AVI (but in such a way that Sony Vegas cannot decode it properly)
I know you use some other program to transcode, but I know of another program that will save you time, effort, and file size. get Blaze Media Pro, its an all in one program, but among its many features, it has one called “edit video”
if you open the video, and save it, it will recode the avi file into something Vegas can easily decode.
as far as the red box error in video timeline, closing sony vegas and reopening it fixes this issue for me
hope this helps
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