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Sony Vegas Movie Stuido 10 Not Playing Files Correctly
Hello,
The issue I am having is that the files I am importing into Sony Vegas won’t play properly. I press the play button and the sound runs smooth but the video freezes and stutters horribly. It appears that they import fine(they show up in the media section and I can drag it to the timeline), they just don’t play.
I have a Hauppauge HD PVR capturing from an XBOX 360. I have tried all three output types(.mp4, .ts, .m2ts) and it is the same result.
NOTE: The files do play back smoothly using the Arc-Soft player that came bundled with the Hauppauge unit.
I am using a dell Inspiron E1705 laptop, I’m sorry, I’m at work and I don’t have the My Computer properties.
A co-worker suggested as a test to lower the bit-rate to 1 to see if the files would play then but it is the same result. The files still don’t play.
Tim
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7 Replies
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Sorry, I’m new here and didn’t mean to click the “Solution” link, I do not have a solution yet.
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It looks like the files are a highly compressed format and Vegas is having a hard time decompressing them fast enough for you to get a fast preview, especcialy on a laptop. That’s why the recorder came with software made to play the videos back. If setting the preview to “preview auto” doesn’t help enough, you may have to convert the videos to a format that’s easier on your CPU, like DV avi. If your recorder is recording HD and you want to keep it that way, you can convert the whole video at once to DV avi widescreen, so the length is the same as the original HD video, edit the DV video to your liking as it should play fine in the preview. Then before you render, click on the DV video in the project media tab and click replace. Then point to the original HD video. Make sure your project settings are set to the same HD resoulution as your HD video and render to your desired format. This method is known as using proxies to edit. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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Thanks for the quick reply! I will try this at home and post back the results.
Tim
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I’ve been here for years and now I know why the check-mark shows on some threads.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Ok, so the Preview was already set to “auto”. I am completley new to this and was wondering if there was a recomended safe app to use to convert my files to the DV avi widescreen format so I can test this solution out
Thanks,
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You can use Vegas for that. Just set your project settings to the same as the HD footage, Put the HD video on the timeline, double click the event to set loop markers, and render as DV Widescreen AVI.
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