Mix of footage resolutions.

[John Rofrano]

There shouldn’t be any problem with using mixed HD and SD footage. You might try using the HD footage alone in another project just to see if it renders or if there is a problem with the footage. As a work-around you could always render the HD footage as SD Widescreen and use that in your project.

~jr

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[Jim Lillis]

Thanks for the tip. I’ve tried that, and for some reason, it’s a no go.

The HD footage is a “p” not an “i”, and unless I changed something with the footage parameters I thought it should work also. The project (as I noted earlier) was set to Standard DV. I didn’t have an inkling to put shoot or put HD in this project. The camcorder shoots an H.264 file and shows up fine as a stand alone piece of footage, but for whatever reason, it pukes in the project.

If it moves . . . Shoot it!

[John Rofrano]

[Jim Lillis] “Thanks for the tip. I’ve tried that, and for some reason, it’s a no go. “

So you are saying that you can’t render the HD footage as SD in a new project?

~jr

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[Jim Lillis]

Yup, it didn’t work. At least a few times. My deadline was near, so as it turned out, I just grabbed a frame or two, saved them as .jpg’s and did a quick dissolve for the inserts. It worked, but I sure would like to solve this for the next time around.

Regular SD footage (either from a Firestore HD in AVI), or from Tape imported via a Pyro A/V link box. Both seem comparable in stream feeds and have no problem in edit execution.

HD footage : sdxc card direct drop-into project file folder for timeline insertion. File is coded as an H.264 file and works fine as a stand alone file.

My problem rises from the insertion with effect(s) at the dissolve point. Every time, it hangs up and does not go any further in the rendering process.

If it moves . . . Shoot it!

[Mike Kujbida]

Jim, I agree with John that this should have worked for you.
I’ve done it in the past with no problems whatsoever.
What version of Vegas are you using?

[Jim Lillis]

Ver 9 x??? I know, and I agree that it _should_ be working. It says so in the manual. 🙂

I did my work around as stated before, and will look at this in more detail when I have the time. It was kind of funny though, how it showed up, as once I dropped it in it’s timeline, it showed up. But after about 4 or so previews on the timeline to see if we liked it, the whole clip showed up as a red frame. I’m leaning towards thinking it may very well be a problem with the computer.

AMD 64 x2 Dual Core 5,000+, mmx, 3DNow on both cpu’s
XP Pro w/4x Ram
It’s reading a 9x ver for direct-x, but I know it’ 11x.

I have a low end video card on this unit;
NVidia 9500 GT (dual)w/1,024 mb.

2-1tb hd’s on board with abut 15 tb of stand alone.
This is running pretty slow at 2.5 ghtz, but it chugs along, and I have a new HP workstation sitting in the room waiting to get fired up to replace this unit. (soon)

I’m hoping the new station will solve any problems that might be here on this unit, and I can just move this machine over to some real small commercial editing work & use the workstation for larger / longer projects.

Thanks for the input, you guys are tops for us P/D’s who end up working solo for most of the projects.

If it moves . . . Shoot it!

[John Rofrano]

[Jim Lillis] “It was kind of funny though, how it showed up, as once I dropped it in it’s timeline, it showed up. But after about 4 or so previews on the timeline to see if we liked it, the whole clip showed up as a red frame. I’m leaning towards thinking it may very well be a problem with the computer.”

Red frames are an indication of running out of resources on Windows. Since you are running XP Pro, you only have 2GB of memory available to Vegas. That may have something to do with it. Also make sure that you don’t have any codec-paks that might be interfering with Vegas.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Jim Lillis] “HD footage : sdxc card direct drop-into project file folder for timeline insertion. File is coded as an H.264 file and works fine as a stand alone file. “

From what camera? Vegas supports AVCHD and some custom AVC/H.264 formats but your camera may be creating H.264 files that Vegas can’t handle.

~jr

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[Jim Lillis]

Sorry for the late delay, but I did in fact have a bad memory chip. Or at least it was going wacky and finally crapped out. It has since been replaced and I am in the process of changing to a workstation for editing with 16 gig memory which will not be going on line at all. I will probably still edit on the smaller machine, but from all the info on here I think it’s time to just use the right machine.

Thanks again for the input, and I’m sure they will be more questions as this moves along.

If it moves . . . Shoot it!