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Video images black in and out??
Ok I have been encountering this extremely off problem with Vegas pro 11.. When I watch a project i’m working on on the timeline in previw screen or if i’m just scrubbing through the timeline.. the footage will go black then back to the video it will do this many times. I first thought it just might be the preview screen or the timeline acting funny, so I didn;t think much of it until I burned the project to a DVD and it plays that way! has picture, then goes blank, then picture, then goes blank, etc etc..
I have to completely exit out of Vegas and reopen it and then it fixes the issue.. however this is not normal and gets extremely annoying when this happens.. does anyone have any idea whats going on here?
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I had this issue fairly frequently when using Cineform avi footage. What file format is your video?
http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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I have had it happen to 2 different projects.. 1 project was filmed with an SLR so it’s .MOV file the other project was with a Sony FX-7 in HD it’s .m2t file
“Film is a dramatized reality and it is the director’s job to make it appear real… an audience should not be conscious of technique.” – David Lean
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is that it?
“Film is a dramatized reality and it is the director’s job to make it appear real… an audience should not be conscious of technique.” – David Lean
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I don’t know what the issue is, but this isn’t unheard of in Vegas.
http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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Your *fix* of restarting Vegas seems odd.
If you restart Vegas and then render out your project, do the black-outs still show up in the rendered output?
Do the black-outs occur in the same frames every time you preview and render out? Or does it seem randomly?
What are the frame rates for your source media files?
What is your project frame rate set too?
What is your rendered output frame rate set too?
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Hey Paul, this particular issue i encounter sometimes
with Vegas, no matter what i have on the timeline, and im
still using Vegas 10.
The solution of restarting Vegas is the only one i know of.
So before each of my renders, i always restart Vegas then
straight to rendering…And all will render well.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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If restarting Vegas fixes your BLACKOUT problem, it is most likely due to Vegas having some kind of memory issue; perhaps a memory leak.
This would be a BUG.
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@Steve yes that’s the only cure I know of…
hopefully Sony will come out with an update to fix this!“Film is a dramatized reality and it is the director’s job to make it appear real… an audience should not be conscious of technique.” – David Lean
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Paul
I have seen third party FX do similar things in Vegas. I had a particular plug-in that worked fine in 10c, but when I upgraded to 10e, the plugin was changing the video gamma/curves randomly on the timeline and in the subsequent encode in my multicam edit, giving crazy results that looked almost cartoonish.
I reported it to the plug-in developer and also emailed Vasst for advice and we concluded that Sony had probably modified the OFX library slightly to cause the plug-in to misbehave. After much to-ing and fro-ing, I reverted to 10c so I could complete my project. I later reproduced the problem on another editor’s PC, reported it to the plug-in developer again and left it that. I don’t use that particular plug-in anymore for multicam edits, but it is OK for single track edits.
In summary, consider rolling back your Vegas version and report it to Vegas
https://download.sonymediasoftware.com/current/
My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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Yep. Over a year & a half later & that “video goes black during random clips then back to video” is on MY Vegas 12 as well! VERY ANNOYING!!! I didn’t pay hundreds of dollars for an upgrade just for this crap to continue to happen.
I have been a loyal Sony Vegas user since at least Vegas 6, but they need to get this kind of crap fixed so they can be taken seriously as a “real” NLE option instead of being thought of as non-professional option.
I’ve had it with this majorly-annoying bug & a few persistent others. I don’t work on my videos for weeks and months and then some stupid bug ruins the entire video when it’s time to render.
In a year or so (the soonest I can afford it) I am definitely making the switch to Adobe Premiere Pro or something.
All my hard work wasted over a stupid bug that Sony is obviously too incompetent to fix. It’s a shame.
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