[Craig Patterson]

Hi Brad-

I’ve recently encountered the same problem, with a machine similar to yours. No one thing will necessarily work, but try these things:

1. When rendering, you don’t need preview RAM, so bump it down to 16 Meg. The amount you’re using is insanely big!

2. Render to a different drive than the one your video files exist on. (If the drive can’t keep up, that can also cause Vegas to crash.)

3. Monitor your CPU temp during render using one of the free programs available. This didn’t fix it for me, but others have had great luck in discovering their CPUs were being overclocked and they didn’t know it.

4. Click the lightning icon in the Media Pool – that removes any unused clips from the pool. This can be a big help, as they seem to use up RAM.

5. Remove ANYTHING from memory that’s not rendering-related, like virus scanning, Internet, and anything else you can find.

6. I can’t recall if you’re using Vista…. if you are, turn off all the fancy-shmancy screen and desktop animations and effects. Just click on “optimize for speed” and you’ll be set.

7. Make sure Windows is taking care of your Pagefile management. I can go into more detail if you don’t know how to do that.

Let us know how that goes.

Craig

[Craig Patterson]

I’d like to resurrect this thread, as I’m having the same issue.

The DVD is not copy-protected, it’s just a DVD burn of some footage – about ninety minutes worth.

When I use Vegas to import DVD Camera tracks, the .VOB files get split up into 250-Meg sections (about six minutes each). They’re not that way on the DVD, they’re 1 Gig each. Once imported, when I click on the filename to look at the properties, I get this:

Video: 720X480 29.970 fps 00:05:57:25
Audio: 48,000 Hz, Stereo 00:05:57:12

Note that the audio and video are not the same length. That’s the heart of the problem.

Simply renaming the files as MPG doesn’t work, as Vegas only recognizes the first five seconds of the resulting file. The audio is not time compressed – there’s a third of a second of audio at the end of the file that’s actually missing.

All of this happens on a Vegas Pro machine, and on a completely different rig with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum. Same exact experience.

I’m going to try ripping the DVD outside of Vegas to see if that works any different, but if anyone’s seen this before, I’d love to be educated.

Craig

[Craig Patterson]

First of all, I hadn’t noticed that you need a velocity envelope for the video as well. Vegas has velocity envelopes, unless you’re using Movie Studio, in which case you’ll want to upgrade to Pro to get the effect you’re looking for.

As far as Tapestop goes, there is only one folder that Vegas will be looking in for VSTs, so I’m not sure why you say you’ve put it in “every” folder. If you put it in the correct folder, it will appear as an audio effect. It will never appear as a video effect. Look under Options..Preferences..VST Effects to find the folder Vegas will be looking in.

Craig

[Craig Patterson]

Hi Carson-

Set up a separate audio track, and move any audio clips to it that you want to sound like radio transmission. Equalize that audio track to REMOVE all frequencies below about 1600, AND remove frequencies above about 3000. Feel free to change those frequencies to get the sound you’re looking for.

Then turn that track down about 3-4 db overall, as the sound will be more piercing. You can also add some radio static on yet another track, aligning the static clips to the radio sound, so you only hear the static while the actual transmission is going on. That will help add to the realism. Also try to find a beep or click sound, as a radio would make when the Talk button gets released, and put it at the end of each transmission.

If you have a little extra time, you can also heavily compress that audio track, as well as add some light distortion to it. But the above will be quite convincing even without these last two.

Craig

[Craig Patterson]

There’s a nifty VST plug for audio called Tapestop, found here:

https://hem.bredband.net/tbtaudio/archive/files/Tapestop_1-7.zip

You’ll need to automate it twice – once for the slowdown, and once for the speedup.

Craig

[Craig Patterson]

Hi-

You may not have seen the first post, where I mention that I’m not able to decode using Raylight. That may have something to do with the Raylight codec not overwriting the system preferences to be able to be the default codec for that file type.

So to reiterate, Raylight’s decoder is installed on the system, and WMP will view the file. But Vegas will not.

[Craig Patterson]

Hi Allen-

Again, thank you for responding. My dilemma is not that I can’t identify the codec. I had mentioned in my first post that G-Spot tells me the Huffyuv will decode it. My dilemma is that Windows Media Player can find that codec, but Vegas can’t. WMP will play the file, but I cannot open it in Vegas.

So my question is, how can I tell Vegas to use a specific codec that I know already exists on my system?

Craig

[Craig Patterson]

Hi Allen-

Thank you for responding. I’m not talking about an FCP project, but an HD file rendered from FCP. The codec they’ve probably used is DVCPro, which appears as a MOV file, but is not readable by PC. See here: https://community.avid.com/forums/p/38930/217773.aspx and here: https://dvxuser.com/V6/archive/index.php/t-60871.html, where they say “While there is QT 7 for Macs and QT 7 for PCs, the particular codec Apple is using is specific to FCP installs, NOT to QT in general.”

This is, so far, correct. But I’ve been able to view the MOV file in Windows Media Player (albeit with no audio). However, Vegas claims there is no valid video stream in the file. So some codec must be reading it, and it looks like it’s the Huffyuv. But I can’t get Vegas to try different codecs, the way Media Player apparently does.