[David Martin]

Understand the heal problem, but it should therefore refuse to heal at all, not proceed as if it succeeded but produce the wrong results. Grey out the option on the menu. Misleading. Drove me nuts trying to figure out why it “sort of” worked.

If you read my two previous messages fully you will see that I solved the fading exactly as you suggested.

[David Martin]

Hi Paul,

I understand what heal does. I’ve used it before without issue. Here’s what I’m trying to do.

I’m adding sound to a video track, but I don’t want the ending as it is. However, I need the song longer and I just want to repeat a short section over and over as if fades out.

It’s a simple solution: Define a section of the song, copy and paste it so the join is transparent to the listener, then repeat until it’s long enough and fade it out.

The problem is that the section that I copy and paste is very short. I want a long fade and the fade will only fade one event. With me so far?

So I figured I could join a number of clips, two at a time, until I had an event that was long enough for the fade. However, when I heal the first two sections, instead of having one event that is twice as long, the result is longer, with the last section “growing, so it is longer than originally split. Bizarre. As I said, my solution was to use an audio envelope to manually create a long fade over several sections, but it seems the heal problem must must be a bug.

David

[David Martin]

I also had this problem, but thanks to a response nearly 2 years old I have it working again. My problem was a bit different, in that I saw only a solid black rectangle where the preview image should be. Normal preview was working, and the crop tool was working, just no preview in the crop window.

Great site.

[David Martin]

It says Vegas will reset all my Preferences to default values. Is there a way to save the Preferences and reload them afterwards?

[David Martin]

No, still no video.

[David Martin]

You’ve hit on a major sticking point in the drive to digital media as opposed to film emulsion. We can still watch film made in the beginning of the 20th century. Think of all the digital formats that have come and gone just in the last 20 years.

Even if electronic archival methods are proven to be adequate for extended periods (ever had a hard drive failure?) , how is the obsolescence problem handled? It seems every year we encounter a “new, improved” video format.

This problem extends (even more importantly) to data storage. Nearly every piece of information needed to keep our society — a world society — is now dependent upon digital media and the systems necessary to find and retrieve that data.

Fortunately I’m not the one who has to figure this all out. Now, if I can just dig out that Beta player I stored somewhere…

[David Martin]

I’ll break down my reply. I think I stated most of this in my original message.

1. I’m not clear about what you mean by “online”.
2. The video track in the timeline is blank.
3. If I add the file to a new track it plays fine.
4. The working audio is part of the same MPEG2 file.
5. The file plays fine in any number of media players, including Vegas if I add it to a new video track. I think I can safely say it’s not a corrupted file.
6. If I move the file or rename it and point Vegas to the renamed file or a copy of the same file, the same problem results — no video in the edited video track in the timeline.

Obviously this is not something that has a quick fix or that someone has run across before. Just one of those things. I’ll just re-edit the video. Since the audio still reflects the edits it will be a bit helpful. Thanks for your suggestions.

Just for future use, is there a way to time stamp the different edits as I go along so I can locate them in the original source later?

[David Martin]

Ah, therein lies a story in itself, but I was given the file by a friend. It’s an MPEG2 video and the quality is quite poor. It was doing fine as I worked through the edits. It was done a little at a time. But one day I opened up Vegas and the video track was gone.

It’s not a disaster, but a lot of time down the drain if I have to re-edit it.