[Mark Lynch]

Thankyou for responding…

Project Properties(Under “File->Properties”?):
Template: Custom (720×480, 29.970 fps)
WidthxHeight: 720×480
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0000 (Square)

Render Properties:
Codec: WMV 5 Mbps 720-25p (I use that for all my videos
WidthxHeight: HD 1280×720
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000 (Square))

Properties of the two video sources:

Codec: raw AVI (from mini-DV camera)
WidthxHeight: 720×480
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.2121 (NTSC DV Widescreen)

Codec: MOV (from digital picture camera)
WidthxHeight: 640×480
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0000 (Square)

[Mark Lynch]

That worked perfectly! I uninstalled my current Quicktime and found an older version of 7.6.2. That was very intuitive of you to guess that the files that weren’t working properly were .MOV files. Thank you!

[Mark Lynch]

Vegas 8.0, the files are in a folder where every other video audio and project file is. It’s on my external hard drive.

Upon start-up there is no prompt asking to find a new location for the files, because it seems to be a problem with the way the video file itself is being read, since even when I open the original video file in Vegas again by itself, the audio works, but the picture is blank the too.

[Mark Lynch]

Okay, well when I go to Custom Frame Size, and change it to 873×480 (After having chosen Xvid MPEG4 Codec, and 1.0000 PAR), and start rendering it, I immediately get a message saying:

“An Error Occurred while creating the media file.

No compatible codec was found.”

I have the MP4 codec. What is missing/wrong?

[Mark Lynch]

Not to be a stick in the mud. But I just rendered this video project. And there was audio, but no matter what file/codec I rendered it as, there was no picture at all. Could these DV files just not be compatible? Or am I missing a codec/patch?

[Mark Lynch]

Thank you, both! I was able to right-click into the Media tab and fix the aspect ratio. (Learn tiny new tricks every day!)

As for importing on Mac, unfortunately I have no choice in the matter. But fortunately, now I know that the .DV files the Macs import it as are still compatible with my computer, granted I force it.

Although, since I’m shooting on a Mini-DV camera, why is it that when I import on a PC, it’s strictly .AVI, with no .DV label anywhere, but when I import on Mac, it actually says .DV? Hm.

[Mark Lynch]

Thank you! Eventually, it got it working just fine! I found the (Video.veg.bak) file, made a copy of it, so I’d still have the .bak file, then renamed it (Video.veg), and opened it.
The first try, it loaded up the whole project, but as it was building the peaks for each video clip (about 50 of them), it popped up an error saying “An error occurred.” and something about an “extension”. But I tried opening it again and there were no problems.
The video seems a bit less crisp than before, but that could just be my eyes, haha.

Thank you so much! You saved me weeks of work!

-MJL

[Mark Lynch]

Sorry I probably should have shown these in the first place.
Here, you see my two mp4 options. The Mainconcet AVC, and Sony AVC: Screencap

For the regular AVC, it only has two, non-HD options: Screencap

And for Sony AVC, its HD options are few, and the ones I’ve tried uploading, have lag errors on youtube: Screencap

I looked around MainConcept MPEG-4’s site, I found no upload guide, just ways to purchase things?

-M

[Mark Lynch]

I’m sorry for naivety on the topic. But where is this option? I have Vegas Pro 8.0.

Under “Tools” there is a “Export for Sony PSP” along with the basic “burn to CD” options.

Could this be a different version? Or is there technical knowledge I’m just lacking?

[Mark Lynch]

Could you please elaborate on what “Upload from the timeline” means?

-M