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Unable to Create Regions in WMV file in Platinum Pro
Problem:
Does anyone know a way to create Regions in WMV files in Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0b?
Video Source:
I used Windows Media Encoder to capture some DV tapes as high-quality (29.970 fps progressive, 640x480x24, 3Mbps) Windows Media Video 9 files.
What I’m doing:
My primary workflow is to create regions of the highlights in my raw videos so that I can go back and easily pull in the parts I previously bracketed when I’m doing my editing in Vegas. This works well for all other types of videos I’ve worked with (mpg, dv-avi, m2ts). Whenever I use the trimmer to create a ‘region‘ in a wmv file, it shows it, but when I save and close the clip and go back to it, the ‘region‘ has been converted to a ‘marker‘ where the region started.I’ve looked through Sony’s knowledge-base and there’s nothing there about specific problems with WMVs I can’t find any settings in the preference’s that make a difference.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Capturing DV is such a hassle, I don’t want to recapture everything 🙁
All thoughts/suggestions are welcome.
Karl
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6 Replies
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I used Windows Media Encoder to capture some DV tapes as high-quality (29.970 fps progressive, 640x480x24, 3Mbps) Windows Media Video 9 files.
Your workflow is anything but high quality and WMV is a horrible format as a source file. DV video uses a bit-rate of 25Mbps. If you are capturing 3Mbps you are throwing most of the quality away (i.e., you have 1/5th the original quality!) You should stop using Windows Media Encoder and capture your DV using Vegas Movie Studio. This will not only be much higher quality, it will be much easier to edit. I’m sure it will solve your problem with regions not being saved properly. I have never had problems like this with DV AVI files.
~jr
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I can see that these wmvs have become a weak link – both in quality and usability and it seems obvious now that I should use the native AVI. They’re obviously not the way to continue, but I’ve already done about 14 of them and would like to at least use them.
However, I think my general workflow is ok, since it is a methodology and is separate from the quality of the footage used.
Karl
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You general workflow is fine and what you are doing should work. I just added some regions to a WMV file in the trimmer of Vegas Pro 9.0 and I closed Vegas and re-opened it and the WMV file and the regions were still there so you may have uncovered a bug in Movie Studio.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thanks for the thoughts and trying it on your setup. I’ve submitted a “question” at Sony support to see what they have to say.
Karl
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Looks like you were right about a bug in Platinum/Studio. In their own words:
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Hi Karl,Thank you for contacting Sony Creative Software.
This is a known issue within Vegas Movie Studio Platinum. Our development team is working on a fix for a future release of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum. You can enable NetNotify under Options> Preferences, so you receive a notification as soon as new updates or versions become available.
Thanks for reporting this issue.
Sincerely,
[Customer Service Person]
Customer Service
Sony Creative Software Inc
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com
—————-Karl Bernard
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Good to know and glad Sony is fixing it. Thanks for following up.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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