[Bryan Wells]

I am using Vegas 9.0e, yet I still have problems with MOV files. So far, I have used QT Pro and rendered (pass-through) to mp4, and it works after that.

Can you clarify for me the order I need to install? Is all MOV support supposed to be in the Vegas 9.0 installer? I installed QT Pro before installing Vegas, but I just want to see if I might be missing something with my installation to help straighten this out.

Thanks

Bryan Wells

[Bryan Wells]

I did get QT Pro and that worked fine as I followed the idea from John Rofrano. QT handled the video and audio without crashing and it was able to output a mp4 which Vegas could load. Otherwise, Vegas crashed every time I tried to load the mov file. I just got a new Canon SD780 point and shoot camera with HD video. It produces HD MOV files in h.264. I have no problem loading those into Vegas without having to go through QT. Every camera can be different.

Bryan Wells

[Bryan Wells]

It is my understanding that the Main Concepts AVC/ACC and the Sony AVC(.mp4) are both H.264. I am not sure if ALL of the sub-templates under these two selections are H.264, but I have rendered video from HD using these templates and played them back in my Flash (update 9) player which I think means they are H.264. Another post on this forum said to use these templates to render H.264. If I try and play my HD video using the MP2 template, they do NOT play back in the Flash player. Since Flash update 9 supports H.264, I have convinced myself that what I render from AVC/ACC is H.264.

Bryan

Bryan Wells

[Bryan Wells]

I recalibrated my monitor and the problem went away. I got way off track because it looked fine inside Vegas. I am not sure why it looked fine in Vegas and in the Neuview media player and not any where else; but whatever the cause, it is all working correctly now.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Bryan Wells

[Bryan Wells]

I found an option in Neuview (pro) called “Output”.

It has 3 options:

1. Dx Blit
2. Dx Overlay
3. GDI Blit (RGB)

Options 1 and 2 give me the washed out look, but option 3 works perfect. Can anyone tell me what this means?

Thanks

Bryan Wells

[Bryan Wells]

I checked the waveform luminosity and everything is well below 100. So the raw footage looks fine.

I tried a bunch of other players and converted the video to several other formats with identical results. But I downloaded and installed the Neuview media player ([url]https://www.neuviewed.com[/url]) and it looks fine in that player. I also tried the VLC media player and it is washed out like the others. I tried using Sorenson to convert the video to FLV and to MOV and they all look washed out (but not in the Sorenson preview window).

My concern is that just because I can get it to play correctly with a particular media player does nothing for my ability to publish my video to the web or to share it with anyone else. I don’t have an HD DVD burner so I cannot burn an HD DVD to see how that looks.

Since the Neuview media player plays the video fine (out of the box), it makes me think it is some codec issue or some other setting on my system; but what are others supposed to do when I send them my video? I need this to play fine in other media players as well. Could there be a setting in the renderer I am using from Vegas that is set incorrectly? I don’t know where to begin to figure that out. A

ny ideas?

Thanks

Bryan Wells

[Bryan Wells]

I captured video using the Sony “Import from Handycam” software and these videos appear over exposed.

The only places the video looks correct is in the HC7 camcorder and in Vegas Video software. Everywhere else the video appears over exposed.

Bryan Wells

[Bryan Wells]

I checked into this further and it appears that the video played back in a media player is way over exposed. Whereas in Vegas, its the right light level. I tried putting in an auto-levels Track FX and it fixed the over exposure problem, but the video looked very poor with many edges and lines.

So something is still very wrong. I just am not sure where to begin to figure this problem out.

Bryan Wells

[Bryan Wells]

I have found the script documentation. I have found an example script that almost does what I want. The sample script DirectoryConverter.js renders a video from one folder into another. All I need is to prepend a video with each of the videos in the folder before rendering out to the new folder. So can anyone tell me how I can concatinate two video clips using java script?

Thanks
Bryan

[Bryan Wells]

Thanks Peter.

I was not thinking very clearly. I understand now.

Can you tell me, from inside the Java script, how I can access the clip’s file name given a region that contains the clip? Where can I get the API documentation on the scripting language?

Bryan