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Sorry To Be A Pest – MAJOR PROBLEM!
Per my previous post I’ve a problem that is steadily getting worse and I’m slowly losing an hour doc. On a project I’ve been working on for months I had an error message come up: “An error occurred while starting playback – An invalid device was specified”. Basically I could no longer playback any footage that I had in my project. John was a great help and made some suggestions but none seemed to work. Because of many other glitches I’ve had with Vegas, as last resort I uninstalled and reinstalled Vegas (wherein I lost ALL my personal settings). I opened up the project again and yes, now I could play it back. BUT… when I go to put new clips on the timeline I only have very low audio and no video playback. Yes, I “normalized” the audio. I have both aud & vid playback in the trimmer. This problem only exists in the one project, but it’s the important one, the one that has 25 hours of footage logged (The drive that holds my captured clips is 12% full). All the others are fine. There’s no point in going on a rant here but I really could use some help.
Sprague
Vegas Pro 8b
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Hi Sprague
Sorry to hear you’re having all kinds of problems. I’m sure one or more of our experts will try to help you solve them though.
I don’t do HD or 24p so technically I can’t help you but in reading your post above as well as your previous threads, I’m wondering if you might not have a corrupted (bad) clip somewhere in the project?
Have you check all your clips and can you play those clips somehow outside of Vegas? You say you’re only having problems with this project.
John mentioned in your last thread about you mixing SD and HD and 24p and 30p in the same project. Something you did or happened to this project though. He also mentioned something about possible problems with your particular camera. Can you try another camera or deck to capture the clips?
Another suggestion would be to open a new instance of Vegas. Only 1 at a time, Import 1 clip and see if it plays good or not. Then close it and import another clip. Keep doing that until either you found the clip that won’t play or everything checks out okay.
Sorry but this is the best I can offer. I’m sure someone else will possibly have a better suggestion.
AllenASX Media Group, Inc.
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have you tried the new mpeg.dll that sony is trialing over on the scs forum? might be worth a whirl…..
leslie
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Thanks to both of you for getting back to me on this! Great suggestions and I’ll give them a try. One thing I think I have figured out (and believe me, this was a long time in the discovery) it may be that the video(& audio) track(s) that I used for the project have somehow become corrupted… ? When I drag clips to tracks above the working one or below it, they play fine. It’s just that one track is extremely inconsistent. I just discovered this and will try more later tonight but in the meantime was wondering if this symptom sounded familiar to anyone?
Again, many thanks for getting back to me,
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try going back to vegas pro 8a… it fixed my problems that nothing else would..
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Thanks Wade. It’s certainly crossed my mind.
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Hi Sprague
[Sprague Theobald] “It’s just that one track is extremely inconsistent. I just discovered this and will try more later tonight but in the meantime was wondering if this symptom sounded familiar to anyone?”
Yes it does, especially if you have a corrupted file on the track. More than once I’ve had a video clip that was corrupted somehow and caused no end of problems trying to find it.
Another possible way would be to move all the video clips down or up a track. See if it plays. Then start removing clips one at a time trying to play the video. If it doesn’t correct the problem, try another and so on. Also look for dropped frames that may have happened in the capture. You’d have to zoom in on the track to frames an look for black frames.
Allen
ASX Media Group, Inc.
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Thanks Allen,
As you guys can imagine this was a very ugly three or four days. It almost came to the point where they had to slide the meals under the door! I can’t thank all of you enough for your help with this. Apart from the odd glitch (it is a computer program after all) I think Vegas is really fantastic and look forward to the day I can help out a struggling “newbie”!
Thanks again,
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Hi Sprague
Wow! That’s great you got it solved. You you mind telling us what the program/glitch was that caused the problem?
So happy we could help.
AllenASX Media Group, Inc.
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If the problem is isolated to to a single video track, insert new video track above the bad one, copy all clips from the corrupt track (select to end) and drag them up one. Delete the old track from the project.
BTW.. the track “header” has a slider for transparency, all clips on that track are effected. Have you checked that?Good luck with your project.
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Hi guys,
Yup, the transparency was the first thing I checked. What I ended up doing was as Larry just suggested. I created a new track and dragged in a new clip and paced it on the new track, everything was as it should have been. So I then dragged the whole project up to the new track, deleted the old track and all was well. I had previously done an uninstall but as you read it brought on a new set of problems. I’ve no idea how all of this happen. As suggested, some clip may have been compromised and effected the whole track playback so am spending the day taking a closer look at the clips on the new timeline. I wish I could tell you guys exactly how this came about and exactly how it got fixed but the best I can offer is creating the new track and deleting the old one.
Again, many thanks!!,
Sprague
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