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Video is black???
I have Sony Vegas Pro 8 and it was working totally fine until I dragged a new video file into the track. It was totally black; the video itself on sony vegas and the preview screen. The file is an mp4 and I’ve been able to play it on vegas before. I noticed that this is happening with a LOT of my files when I drag them into vegas. Some files show up on vegas, and others are just black. I tried opening one of the files in quicktime and they play fine, so im pretty sure that its a problem with sony vegas and not with the videos themselves. I have no idea what is going on.
Here is an example of what an mp4 video looks like when I drag into a track:
Some videos look like that and others are just black.
-Jenna
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4 Replies
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What codec does the file use? I’m guessing it’s DivX or Xvid which isn’t supported by Vegas. Try installing the x264vfw codec and see if that helps. Otherwise, you’ll need to transcode your files into something Vegas can edit. Depending on whether you’re working in HD or SD there are variety of codecs that work well like DV, MJPEG, Huffyuv, Lagarith, Cineform, etc.
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I would try that except that I’ve been using this program for 3 years and my videos have worked absolutely fine until now. It just seems odd that it won’t support those files all of the sudden.
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Hi! I’m having the same problem. My video files worked perfect till I re-formatted the computer and installed Vegas Pro again. (I’m using 9.0) I’ve searched on the forum here for others that have had this problem and the best answer I’ve seen so far is to upgrade to Vegas Pro 9.0e (they say anything afer d is best) So I’m trying that as we speak and I’ll let you know if it works.
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Jenna, if you have iTunes on your computer and recently did an update to it, that’s the root of your problem as Pro 8 doesn’t like any QuickTime newer than 7.6.4 (or is it 7.6.2).
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