Pink Artifacts

[Bob Tasa]

If you play a regular HD DVD or DVD on the PS3 do you get the same pink artifacts?
Just making sure the playback hardware doesnt have something to do with this.

Other than that..
If you were to cut that scene out and render it by
itself to a file on your hard disk is it OK for PC playback.

What I am suggesting is you need to narrow the problem to
a particular area of footage first then review those
clips and see if there is anything unique about them.
etc..

Narrow down the issue as small as you can then
you can say these images give me pink when burning to disk
or when rendering the file? So you can tell if its the Codec
or the actually burning software thats giving you a problem.

Anyway.. Try those 🙂
Bob

[Big Bad bill]

I’ve done just that, zeroing in on just one minute of video that had the worst problem. (The pink artifacts appears elsewhere in the video, but if I can cure it in one spot hopefully . . .) Bingo! By going to MainConcept AVC/AAC (mp4) instead of the Sony plugin, I did eliminated the pink . . . but got another problem in its place. Now I have brakeup bands running accross the newly rendered segment in several places. Wow! I just fixed this one as well by going to 32 bit from 8 bit (read that somewhere in this forum – also).

Sorry about crying wolf. I’ve just been using Vegas Pro 8 for about a week so I’m definately a newby. I’ve always been an Adobe Pro user and the transition has been a bit rocky, but things are looking up. I think I’m going to like this new editor.

Thanks again for your help.

[Bob Tasa]

Wow good to know and great you got your problem solved.
Seems like the Sony codec has issues 🙁
Has anyone else seen this?

Bill,
I have a question. Did the Main Concept codec come with
Vegas or did you get it from something else?

Thanks,
Bob

[Big Bad bill]

It came with Vegas. I just tried to use it again (the Sony AVC plugin) to re-render the small segment I’ve been working with to see if it was the 32 bit thingie all along. It shut Vegas down two times in a row (renders for maybe a minute or so), so yes, I’d say it’s still a bit buggy . . . I’m taking a break right now, so catch you later.

Thanks again for your help.

[Bob Tasa]

Actually thank you Bill.
That was some great info.

Bob

[Big Bad bill]

Well, darn! Pink is back! If you’ll recall, when I tried this before it knocked me clean out of Vegas (2X). But this got me to thinking, I rendered a whole hour before so what gives? It seems you have to go to File (the Sony plugin isn’t visible when you use Ctl – M) and then “Render as” and then you’ll see Sony AVC(*.mp4,*m2ts,avc).” Every time I left it on this settimg plus the default “Blu-ray 1440×1080” it aborted Vegas. To cure this I went into “Custom” and to “Video” and changed the “video format” from AVC to AVCHD and it worked. Or at least it let me run the render program. It’s just too bad that at the end-of-the-day, the result still had a lot of pink stuff in it.

Here’s hoping that Sony gets around very quickly to fixing all this. I’m looking forward to being able to burn Blu-ray disks with their plugin.

[Big Bad bill]

First of all let me say that ChicagoBobT was right all along. What I needed to do was isolate the problem. I did this by selecting those few frames in each clip that had the artifacts problem and then right clicking on the clip, selecting properties and then checking “Reduce Interlace Flicker”. This got rid of 99% of the pink.

Next let me apologize to all of you Vegas Pro users for slandering the new V8 by intimating that that there was something wrong with the avc application which cause the program to abort while rendering. Turns out mine was a hardware problem all along. My machine is a home build (Asus Striker Extreme, 8800gtx, Ocz 2TA1000VX22Gk (4gb) with Vista 32 home premium. I had the memory set to 4-4-4-15. By changing this to 5-5-5-15, the problem stopped almost entirely.

I’m now 10 days into using Vegas Pro 8 and liking it better every day.