[Lazar Konforti]

Do you know if the generated media is saved within the .veg file itself or is it floating somewhere in the Vegas system files? As in, if I were to open the .veg file on a different computer, will the text be there?

[Lazar Konforti]

Have you found a solution? I had a similar issue.
– everything looks in sync in the project
– mp4 rendered at 1920 x 1080, 29fps (same as source file), 10mbps (source file was 25mbps) with CABAC: appears out of sync on VLC and WMP
– when I insert the mp4 file above back into vegas, it’s back in sync
– also rendered an mp4 version at 1280 x 720 and 2.3mbps: it appears slightly out of sync, less so than the higher quality version

So far we have the same problem, but once I uploaded my apparently out-of-sync file to Vimeo, it looked just fine! So I may not have the exact same problem as you, though I haven’t tried uploading to youtube yet.

So I did some experimenting. Rendering in a different file format (m2t), even at top quality (25mbps), had no issues with playback or audio/video sync. I tried mp4 again in different resolutions and with the CAVLC codec instead of CABAC and still I had the same problem.

Wanting to try out even more different settings but tired of rendering a 26-minute video over and over again, I started rendering just a short 40-second clip. Guess what: the short clip, rendered at the same setting as my initial attempt (mp4, 1920×1080, 29fps, 10mbps, CABAC) had no noticeable audio/video syncing problems!

It appears that as the file size goes up, the sync problem appears. This is all I can provide in terms of input to this conversation, based on trial and error. I have no idea what may be causing this nor how to fix it. Now that I look more carefully at a 10-minute clip I did with the same settings a few months ago, I can perceive a slight sync issue. I hadn’t noticed it before, but the more I look at it the more I see it. But in the 26-minute clip I made this week, it’s just way too obvious.

[Lazar Konforti]

Hi, I have a similar issue, except that I don’t want to do move my entire timeline, just the given clip with its marker.

When I do long interviews, I will separate it into several one-minute or so clips and use markers to remind myself what the person says at which point. Afterwards, I re-arrange the clips to make the narrative I want. As it is, I have to move the clip and then its marker independently, which is a pain, especially since I have over a hundred clips with markers in the timeline of my current project.

[Lazar Konforti]

Hi. Thanks for the tip, it seems like an interesting workaround, but i’m not exactly sure how to do it. I’m a bit of a novice, you see!

When you say render the clips as DV widescreen, do you mean to play with the project properties (probably not, because i don’t see how that would help) or do you mean actually use Vegas to render each individual clip as a new file? That seems incredibly time-consuming: put in time-line, render, wait while vegas renders (i have an i5, 7200 RPM with 8GB ram but it still takes a while to render!), import new file into project, delete old MTS file from timeline, start over. With around 30 clips per filming session, that may take a lot of time.

And even then, if i use the newly-rendered files to edit my video, how do i replace them with the original MTS files afterwards? I remove the rendered DV widescreen files to force vegas to see them as “Media Offline” and then manually find the original MTS by right-clicking on the offline clip? again, this seems very time consuming. But if that’s what i gotta do, then that’s what i gotta do!!

But if i misunderstood your instructions, i would greatly appreciate some help!

Lazar

[Lazar Konforti]

Thanks for replying John. I’ll post my query in a new thread and hopefully someone will know what I can do. If not, I might have to consider getting Neoscene.

[Lazar Konforti]

Hi,

Thank you for posting this. I too have a Canon VIXIA (the HF M40)and though I am very happy with the camera itself (probably the most practical in its price range), I have had quite bit of trouble working with MTS files as they are quite choppy in Vegas’ preview window. Unfortunately, I do not have Cineform’s Neoscene and it’s quite expensive for something that i will only use to convert files for editing (I didn’t have to do that at all with my old camera which produced AVI’s off the bat, nor when i borrow my friend’s camera which records in M2T).

I have tried Apecsoft’s free converter but Vegas doesn’t recognise the AVI files it produces (video track appears as “Media Offline” in trimmer while adio track is not there at all, and cannot be dragged into the timeline). Do you know of another free converter that you could recommend? I would greatly appreciate working around this little problem.

Thanks in advance,
Lazar

[Lazar Konforti]

Wow! It worked!
Thank you so much, I never would have thought of doing that! I still don’t fully understand why it works (it seems to only affect the text and not the video images, which are of the same dimentions) but I’m really happy that it does.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Lazar

[Lazar Konforti]

Hello,
I’ve been trying for a while and I still have the same problem. I have tried setting everything to the same scrren size, PAR and fps and still nothing. Here is what I have.

Original footage shot on a mini-DV cam, appears in Vegas 9.0 as:
DV 720 x 480 x 24
PAR 1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen)
SMPTE Drop 29.97 fps

My project settings:
720 x 480
PAR 1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen)
Frame rate: 29.970

My generated text settings :
720 x 480
PAR 1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen)
Frame rate: 29.970

My prview settings:
under “Automatic Size Settings”, Vegas has selected 1280×800. There is no option to choose 720 x 480

My render settings:
Video: 29.970 fps, 720×480 Progressive, 5 Mbps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000 (there is NO OPTION for 1.2121, only an option for 1.33333)

As it is, the letters of my generated text come out stretched both on preview and on render.
The text is correctly placed on the preview, but comes out further down and to the right on the render. I notice that the render settings are “720×480 Progressive”. I’m not sure what the “Progressive” is and there doesn’t seem to be a way to take it off.

Here are some screen shots:

1. What I see in Vegas, notice the stretched lettering:

2. What I see in full screen Preview:
(at least it shows the same thing that i see in the preview window, above. The full screen preview was coming out distorted until i changed and then changed back the preview settings! )

3. What the render looks like (sorry for the actual picture of the screen, the “print screen” function doesn’t work for video players)

Notice how the video letterboxes and the letters are normal and no longer appear streched, but are further down and to the left than where i wanted them. It’s as if the text was on a sqare plane whose height was greater than that of the video.

Can someone please explain to me why it’s doing this and how I can fix it? I’ve tried so many different configurations thus far and they all seem to cause completely erratic behaviour from Vegas. I can see no rhyme nor reason in any of it.

Thank you,
Lazar

[Lazar Konforti]

Thanks!
rookie mistake i guess. the resolution is bigger on the higher bitrate render, but i thought it wouldn’t matter since the aspect ratio was the same. i mean, Vegas managed to render the images and masks at a higher resolution, so i assumed it would also render the generated text at a higher resolution.
anyway, i’ll try to match the project settings to the render settings and see if it works. i’ll report back if there are more problems. (i’m having some non-vegas related computer issues right now, don’t want to run vegas….)