import png to sony

[Mike Kujbida]

Have you tried importing them as an image sequence?
It’s the easiest way I’ve found for doing things like this.

Make sure all the images are in the same folder and are properly sequentially numbered (i.e. 0001-image.png, 0002-image.png, 0003-image.png, etc.).
File – Import, browse to the folder where these are located, click on the first image, click the Open Still Image Sequence box at the bottom left of this window and make sure the range covers all 4400 images, click Open, make any desired changes in the Properties box that comes up and click OK.
Your sequence will now be sitting in the Project Media tab ready to be dragged to your timeline.

[Danny Hays]

I had a similar problem importing 14000 targa files, each 6 meg. I think it is too much data for Vegas to digest and even as an image seq, it would lock up. I ended up doing as you are and importing 100 at a time and still had to do the project in halves. After about 7000, it wouldn’t take any more, so I rendered as uncompressed and did the rest the same way and then pulled both uncompressed avi’s in and rendered to my final format.

[Jandi Pyo]

THAnk you Mike you helped me a lot…
i have one more question…i need to know what the best settings for this image sequence and i need to synchronize his time with my live action video (15FPS) can you help?
thank you again

[Mike Kujbida]

jandi, if your source video is really 15 fps as you say, I’d set my Properties window to the appropriate frame rate as shown below.
Since this is for NTSC DV (correct?), make sure to set the Pixel aspect ratio to 0.9091
The field order stays at Progressive as these are stills, not video.
Hopefully that’s it but feel free to ask any more questions that may come up.

[Jandi Pyo]

thanks for the fast question!
…eventually i scroll the image with the CTRL+mouse to fit the video FPS & i think it’s ok now. it’s lose a little quality for some reason, is it possible?
sorry i have more questions hope it’s ok …
1. what the best way to make the chroma key FX because i have marks of green outside the drowings like shdow and the pale blue becomes dark blue
2. what is the best setting to upload the all thing to youtube
thank you very much jan

[Stephen Mann]

This may not relate to the OP, but it’s worth considering for anyone doing an image sequence import.

Once any single process hits 10,000 GDI Objects, it’s terminated. This is the default limit defined by Windows that a single process can reach.
Each image consumes one GDI Object, every window, icon and graphic element on the desktop consumes a GDI Object. Every toolbar item, button and status bar item consumes a GDI Object. Firefox on my system is using over 2,000 GDI Objects right now. Importing 7000 images could easily hit this limit in your case.

There’s a registry tweak that can change this in windows 7:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\GDIProcessHandleQuota

Right click on the registry key GDIProcessHandleQuota, click on modify, set the BASE to DECIMAL. The value should default to 10000. You can change this to the upper limit of 16,384 (4000 HEX).

** WARNING! – I recommend only making this change if you are very comfortable editing the Windows Registry. Accidental changes to the registry can render your system inoperable, so exercise extreme caution when making any registry edits. I strongly recommend creating a Windows Restore Point prior to performing any registry edits.

Here’s a site that explains and shows the process of creating a Restore Point in Windows Vista and 7 if you’re not familiar with this tool – https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-a-restore-point-for-windows-vistas-system-restore/

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Mike Kujbida]

“eventually i scroll the image with the CTRL+mouse to fit the video FPS & i think it’s ok now. it’s lose a little quality for some reason, is it possible?”

I’m not sure what you’re saying here.
Can you try to explain it differently?

1. Posting a screen shot would help a lot.

2. If you have Pro 10, use the Sony AVC Internet 640×480-30p preset.

[John Rofrano]

[Mike Kujbida] “I’m not sure what you’re saying here.
Can you try to explain it differently?”

Mike, I think he’s saying that he stretched the event to match the frame rate but now he’s seeing a loss in quality because Vegas is resampling the frames and possible synthesizing new ones.

Jandi, You want to do as Mike said and get the frame rate correct when you import the sequence. Otherwise you will compromise your quality (as you have seen)

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Danny Hays]

Thanks for that 10,000 GDI object limit and fix post Stephen. That’s going to help me in the future I’m sure.