John Rofrano
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Yea, I noticed this the other day. It must be a bug or new behavior because it used to work.
BTW, just a comment. I would be careful using the S-Video of your graphics card to color correct. You are not getting the true video from that connection and your graphics card may be applying gamma or other adjustments like showing Computer RGB (0-255) instead of Studio RGB (16-235). The only safe way to color correct is via firewire to a monitor or TV or via the Windows Secondary Display of you are working in HD. Firewire will give you the actual DV stream unaltered using the correct gamma and colors just as the would be sent to tape.
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Could be a corrupt font. You might want to move any fonts that you added to Windows to a different folder and see if it still does it. I’ve seen a corrupt font mess up programs. The trouble is finding it.
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Well… you do not have Vegas 9 because Vegas 9 doesn’t exist. You must have Vegas Movie Studio 9 which is different then just Vegas. I would try and see if you can render to AVI PAL DV. Do not use DivX or any mpeg-4 or wmv format. If you can’t create a PAL DV file then PAL MPEG-2 is your next best choice. I would seriously consider getting another camera that shoots a more standard format if you plan on doing a lot of video editing. You will loose quality during the conversion for editing and then again when rendering to DVD. It’s best to get a camera that you can edit the native files.
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> Wow, Does this mean that in order for me to play back HD from my video on DVD is that I should/need to purchase a blue ray disc burner, blue ray player and blue ray disc’s?
You don’t need a Blu-ray burner or Blu-ray discs, you just need a Blu-ray player. You cannot play HD without a Blu-ray player. As I said, you can burn the Blu-ray formay to DVD media but that doesn’t mean a DVD player will read it. You will still need a Blu-ray player to read the DVD.
> I was under the impression that HDV could be burned just like a regular SD to dvd, but with better picture quality.
HDV can be burned to a DVD as SD but the resolution will be 720×480 because it must be SD. The picture quality will be better because it came from higher quality source, but it will not be HD quality. You can only get HD quality from burning a Blu-ray formatted disc on Blu-ray media or DVD media.
> Thanks for the heads up, makes me kind of wish that I didn’t purchase the Sony HDR-HC7. I do have the Sony DCR-VX2100, which by the way is a super camera.
Not sure why you are sorry you purchased the HDR-HC7. The HDV quality is far superior to your SD VX2100.
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I work directly with the .m2t files unless I have to export to another application like Boris RED for motion tracking. Then I will render to CineForm because it can withstand multiple renders. I see no advantage in making an MXF file if your camera doesn’t produce them natively.
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Whenever either the audio or video doesn’t show up on the timeline it is usually an indication that you don’t have the proper codec on your system to decode the data stream. Get a copy of GSpot and drop the AVI file into it and it will tell you what audio and video codecs the file needs and whether or not they are installed on your system. Then go fine any audio codecs that are missing and install them.
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> the only real answer
Agreed. Like I said, mp4 comes in lots of flavors (DivX, Xvid, etc.) and depending on what you used it may or may not be able to edit them. Give the trial a spin and see.
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> But,they are all mp4. Yet some of them do play.
Dante,
I know all of this can be confusing and actually not make sense some times so let me try and summarize what Douglas and the others have been trying to tell you and then reiterate the steps they’ve told you to take:
MPEG-4 has several variations so all mp4 files are not alike. What is worse (and may not make sense to you) is that Vegas Movie Studio can generate mp4 files that it cannot edit! That’s because some formats are better for delivery while others are better for editing.
Lesson 1: Always keep your source files!
Douglas suggested that you get a copy of GSpot. You can open the mp4 files in GSpot and it will tell you what codec it uses and whether or not you have the codec installed. If you don’t have the codec installed the file will never play.
Harold suggested that you download Super (C). This will allow you to re-encode your mp4 files into a format that Vegas Movie Studio can edit. That is your best path to editing these files again.
One thing that was confusing in your thread is you calling Vegas Movie Studio just Vegas 7 or Vegas 9. The PRO versions are simply called Vegas. You have the Movie Studio version and it is important that you say that when asking for help otherwise people may tell you things that aren’t possible on your version of Movie Studio (like Movie Studio can’t edit mp4 on the timeline while the full Vegas can).
So do as Douglas and Harold suggested and you should be editing again in no time.
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You may be on to something. Normally, when recording a mono source to a stereo device the left channel is used. It may very well be that Vegas is not seeing any left channel audio and assuming there is no audio at all.
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