[Glenn Sakatch]

Do you not lose full screen mode if you have an IO card attached?

I don’t use full screen mode, but for some reason i thought it was based on not having IO.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Make a long timeline with all the raw media. Consolidate it to a new drive. (no handle restrictions)

Unplug your original drive, and relink your project to the new drive. Send to client.

This is a great reason to keep you Avid MediaFiles folders organized, although borrowing from other projects does become an issue at some point, if you don’t want to double up the storage, which i would consider anyway, just to make the archiving of the project easier. If you come back to this project in the future, at this stage, you are forced to restore two projects.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I would suggest you start cutting your sequence into halves, and halves again to locate the problem…probably a corrupt clip. I know you said it crashes at the same spot, and transcoding these spots doesn’t fix anything, but I find Avid doesn’t always crash because of the clip you are on, but could be crashing because of a clip that is coming up soon. Marking ins and outs and doing a play from in to out is another good way of narrowing down the clip(s) that could be causing the issue.

The fact that a transcode isn’t working as well leads me to believe you are not transcoding the correct clip to fix the problem, or there are more clips that are problematic. You may want to transcode everything to get away from H.264 linking, as it could simply be too much for your box/hard drive to handle.

You didn’t say how many clips were on your timeline, or how long it was, but that could be the issue as well.

In cases like this, start by simplifying everything down, and then start working your way back up.
(can I put just this clip on a timeline and play it through)

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Hmm. having trouble getting the file to attach.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Avid will open that aaf, although it does give an error. Resolve is doing the same you reported…asking for a timeline to open. I’m wondering if the multilayer video tracks is throwing off Resolve? It shouldn’t …but might be worth trying an even simpler timeline.

Here is an output from AVID of the same list that resolve will open…so it is more than likely something on the Vegas end.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Are you applying the second lut after the first LUT? (Are you putting two luts on 1 clip?…cause that would almost certain over expose everything, and could present itself as a white clip. I typically would apply a LUT at the node tree level as it’s own node, or in the color management section. Honestly never added one directly to the clip in the color timeline, but by doing so, you are allowed to add more than one LUT to a clip, which would (usually) be bad.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

There is a setting within Avid, where by the AAF created will only have the tracks that have been selected during the output, as well as the In to out range can be specified. Perhaps Vegas is doing something similar. If the video track isn’t selected, it may not be included.

Double check the aaf creation settings in Vegas.

If you would like to post the aaf, i’d be happy to see if Avid can open it.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

Lots of things can affect the track. Your tracking window size, motion, compression, fg elements interfering.

First of all, make sure your tracker is not set to stabilization. I’ve seen that in the past. Set it to stabilize, go to do something, come back, decide to track a shot, and nothing tracks, because you are not actually on the tracker.

Try tracking a smaller item in the shot…a shirt pocket, or collar, or belt buckle. Once the track is done, then expand the size of the shape to the whole item you wanted to track. This can help with edges getting interfered with if you window is too large.

And, as Marc said, be prepared to do some manual adjustment. (except for the world of tutorials) Tracks are not always perfect out of the gate. Learn to use the keyframe function to get over those stubborn areas.

Having to do some manual adjustment doesn’t mean your track didn’t work…it may mean you did it properly.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

I’ve had that happen as well. Transcoded in Resolve, shows timecode in Resolve, bring into Avid, and has no timecode.

I would suggest you just rewrap them and start again.

Glenn

[Glenn Sakatch]

As you didn’t edit the project, it is possible there are two versions of the same graphic in the project.

Put your timeline bar on the offline graphics clip and do a match frame, followed by a find bin command.
Does this highlight the “online” graphic in a bin, or a different version of a clip in the bin?

Glenn