[Jeremy Rasnic]

If you utilize a back up utility simply restore it to a point before you installed the demo. If you are using Windows XP or higher, try using System Restore.

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[Jeremy Rasnic]

Are you capturing from the hard drive attachment? If so, you should be able to just drag the files over to your system and populate the timeline that way- there would be no need for capture.

If you are using tape it would not make sense for the file to not be recognized. Have you captured footage from this cam before using the same method you did this time? What were the results? Try recapturing a small portion and see if that will work.

Is the footage you captured playable in any player such as VLC, Media Player Classic or Nero Showtime?

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[Jeremy Rasnic]

If you are able to reshoot, do that. That will give you satisfactory results. If you are unable, you can attempt to clean up your audio, but it is almost impossible to get desirable results.

Wind noise takes up a wide sound spectrum and is difficult to just eq out.

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[Jeremy Rasnic]

I have not seen this before, but you can try a couple of things.

1. Try your veg.bak file (it should be with your veg file and you can see it if you choose to show hidden files).

2. Check to make sure your drive letters did not change if you rebooted or unplugged an external.

3. Move your footage to a different folder, open up Vegas and it should ask you for the missing files- point it to the new folder(s) containing your footage.

I hope one of those helps.

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[Jeremy Rasnic]

Is there something different at the end of the timeline that is not present for the other 99%? Try just rendering the last portion of the timeline and see if the error still comes up.

What HD files are you using? M2T? AVCHD?

You could also try encoding to AVI uncompressed and see if the encode will complete (this way you will get all of the footage up to the point where the error occurred- it is not an all or nothing scenario). If you watched the AVI file and note that all is there, great; encode that to mpeg-2 and see if that will work. Note though, to do uncompressed you will need a lot of hard disk space. You do not necessarily need to use uncompressed, other AVI options should work just fine. Uncompressed ensures you do not lose any quality in the process.

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[Jeremy Rasnic]

Do you mean by dissappear that the wave form displayed on the timeline dissappears or that your audio cuts out and then is audible again?

If you are opening another program or moving Vegas to the background, you will find that your media will be offline. It does this so as to not tie up your system when you are obviously trying to do something else. If this is what it is doing, it is normal.

Sometimes if you have a lot of system resources being used for other processes (items in your system tray) and your RAM is being fully utlized, you will find that the audio skips (as does your video frame rates) and then it tries to sync back up. Sometimes it takes just a little while to do this. Try turning off your background programs and turning off your virus protection while video editing.

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[Jeremy Rasnic]

By leaving it on (and assuming you are used to having it off) it can cause one of those head scratching moments where you go “huh?”. Also, sometimes you don’t always want everything to shift when you drag something to the timeline. I think it is just a word of caution so that 10 minutes into editing he won’t look back at the timeline and see things all out of place due to him leaving ripple on.

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[Jeremy Rasnic]

You could go to “Insert” and then “time” and choose the amount of time you want to insert (I think those are right as I am not in front of Vegas at the moment) or you could highlight your events (select all of them by drawing a box around all of your events) and press the “g” key and drag them to the right for the allotted amount of time. If you want to ungroup them afterwards just press the “u” key.

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[Jeremy Rasnic]

Do you have an auto gain feature that is turned on? If so, turn it off. Other than that, can you tell us your sound card make, your mic brand, How do you have your mixer set up? Are you backing away from your mic and then getting closer?

You will need to provide some more information for us to be able to adequately help you.

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[Jeremy Rasnic]

Move that event (the PIP video) to the topmost track, or at least above your main footage.

Vegas works with a heirarchy structure that is dictated by track placement. The topmost track’s contents will be on top of all the other track’s contents.

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