[Derek Charles]

It’s strange… The file has been recovered. – but it will only play correctly in VLC and Potplayer.
the same .mov and h264 file (same size) both play wrong and glitchy in Vegas preview.

[Derek Charles]

It’s strange… The file has been recovered. – but it will only play correctly in VLC and Potplayer.
the same .mov and h264 file (same size) both play wrong and glitchy in Vegas preview.

[Derek Charles]

Thanks for your reply – I went to the link fix you sent – I went through all the steps. It worked. Thank you so much –
Best advice I could give to anyone else wanting to try this –
Command Prompt was confusing to operate at first with changing the directory and all with having to type cd
You must have a space where needed, and use ctrl C to copy and Ctrl V to paste the commands. There’s no left and right clicking.
You must use your arrow keys. Also, if anything seems like it’s repetitive while command prompt is loading …if anything is being written in there, just let it keep doing it’s thing. There were often times it would have some codes and say things like file doesn’t exist and “0 bytes” and “no name” “not enough frames” – etc. just bad things like that made me almost give up, but out of nowhere in the bin folder, it created an MOV file around the same size as the original corrupted.
If you come across this problem and get stuck please reply to this thread and I will definitely talk you through the steps. The poster above me saved me a lot of great footage.

The MOV file that was created plays back glitchy in Vegas – I’m starting a new thread to show the problem.
I’ve converted the mov file back to mp4, the file size went from 19gig to 2 gigs… but is still 4k. Hmmm…
Either way thank you for the fix!

[Derek Charles]

It was filmed on an a7sii 4k 24p XAVC-S codec 100mbit/s recorded directly on the card – a sandisk extreme pro 64. All other files show the preview thumbnail of a video frame however this clip just shows an mp4 logo thumbnail, but says the file size is around 18gigs… The clip was in the middle of the file sequence, as in the card let me record more clips after this one was corrupted – I tried converting it with the freeware FormatFactory and recieved an error. I’ve dragged it to an external hard drive, and desktop too. Still had an error. Here is the error readout from Pot Player Media player upon attempting playback.

I:\PRIVATE\M4ROOT\CLIP\C0248.MP4
The contents of the file.
A6 A9 17 42 A2 42 8E 56 3B 40 92 3B EE 79 5C 97 …B.B.V;@.;..\.
8F E8 04 6A 3A 14 11 5F E3 43 40 F9 EB F7 C8 10 …j:.._.C@…..
E5 AA F4 2B E1 EA 1F B7 05 4E D9 C6 0D A0 53 3F …+…..N….S?
51 89 9E DD 01 6F 43 3F 58 99 36 F3 98 2E 28 76 Q….oC?X.6…(v
A4 D0 0E 41 91 80 BF AF DA 7B 3D 57 31 D0 65 53 …A……=W1.eS
79 57 02 4C DA 14 CA B1 84 20 A6 72 33 85 E4 0B .W.L….. .r3…
37 82 DF DA D5 BA DE 47 9E 45 EE E0 25 DE 39 3B 7……G.E..%.9;
99 8A E5 71 D4 A4 3E 3C 37 E9 92 3A 24 0C BB F2 …q..><7..:$…
E0 A3 B5 B3 F4 49 E0 95 1A C1 9A 3A 0C 83 4D 4F …..I…..:..MO
97 18 16 03 3D 4A D5 62 9C 38 41 81 30 3B 37 C6 ….=J.b.8A.0;7.
C9 1A A9 9B EE 59 E7 E8 AC B2 6D A9 93 0A 0A C9 …..Y….m…..
18 EE C8 FE 81 7D B7 11 A6 7D 02 21 2D F8 FA 7D ………..!-…
00 1C 01 00 00 AF 03 35 F0 01 00 10 00 04 3A 02 …….5……:.
00 0C 00 18 00 00 00 00 00 03 58 20 06 0E 2B 34 ……….X ..+4
02 53 01 01 0C 02 01 01 02 01 00 00 83 00 00 50 .S………….P
81 00 00 10 06 0E 2B 34 04 01 01 0B 05 10 01 01 ……+4……..
01 01 00 00 81 01 00 01 00 81 09 00 08 00 00 00 …………….
01 00 00 00 32 81 0A 00 02 10 68 81 0B 00 02 32 ….2…..h….2
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06 0E 2B 34 02 53 01 01 0C 02 01 01 7F 01 00 00 ..+4.S……….
83 00 00 37 E0 00 00 10 96 69 08 00 46 78 03 1C …7…..i..Fx..
20 51 00 00 F0 C0 11 81 E3 00 00 01 00 E3 01 00 Q…………..
04 00 00 32 00 E3 02 00 01 01 E3 03 00 01 06 E3 …2…………
04 00 08 2C 20 18 08 16 20 58 03 00 00 03 35 6B …, … X….5k
6B 61 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 8B 00 20 F1 19 31 kad……… ..1
32 30 32 30 31 30 34 30 31 31 38 31 30 31 33 00 202010401181013.
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48 A1 30 91 E2 30 00 08 03 01 00 00 00 00 00 05 H.0..0……….
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78 8C 00 08 04 01 00 00 00 00 00 08 04 02 00 00 x……………
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[Derek Charles]

Thanks.
I’m starting to understand
– perhaps you can chime in on my issue with Neat Video
in this thread – https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/1020140

[Derek Charles]

I’m noticing the quality loss you speak of from the 4avg and 8max – It is very unpleasing macroblocking – and added grain. I’m still confused in how I see users with the same camera, same 1080p and have a significantly lower 1080 file size uploaded, with higher quality playback… bitrates for Vimeo, YouTube etc.

I’m not worried about disk space, I’m worried that people complain my large files on Vimeo take too long to load and if I upload to Facebook, the large file size will play back longer at 360p while its still trying to load and catch up to the 1080p stream. My original and Vegas stock render template says 24 max and avg 12 – and my video looks way better, just still to big in file size for online playback… How are these people able to have significantly lower file sizes and I dont see a quality problem?

[Derek Charles]

Since I’ve lowered my bitrates significantly, I’m noticing a big quality loss sticking under 4avg and 8max
– It is very unpleasing macroblocking – and added grain. I’m still confused in how I see users with the same camera, same 1080p and have a significantly lower 1080 file size uploaded, with higher quality playback… bitrates for Vimeo, YouTube etc.

I’m not worried about disk space, I’m worried that people complain my large files on Vimeo take too long to load and if I upload to Facebook, the large file size will play back longer at 360p while its still trying to load and catch up to the 1080p stream.

[Derek Charles]

The problem goes away and plays normally when the plugins are disabled. I tried both putting the plugins the first in the chain, and then tried them at the last in the chain. Still glitches. This may be some issue similar with the native Vegas Stabilize – Adding it to the event’s Media FX instead of the event fx –

Lastly, even when Mercalli works properly, still even if I cut or trim any of that, It will have a new glitch of frames popping up showing the black pre render screen – like I haven’t pressed stabilize or analyze yet…

[Derek Charles]

Bumping for cleaner footage

[Derek Charles]

Thank you – I’ve got the DVD issue down now.
There was a bitrate problem stated above I’m still not sure on if anyone else can chime in –
Is there quality loss from rendering a1080 file to 1080 file with the same bitrate settings? Like if you do with a jpeg?
I’m asking this for color grading and “rendering to a new track” for smoother playback on cpu.
Rendering to a new track keeps it at the original XAVCS codec…
But say I stuck with the 1080 mp4 with 4Mb avg and 8 Mb max as through the “Internet 1080 HD” render template as a render to new track – file is not as big

When am I losing latitude for color grading, levels, shadows highlights recovery, etc? Should I assume as long as the settings are the exact same I will still be able to adjust the footage without artifacts?
My original is 4k 100M edited on a 1080 timeline