[Omer Aydin]

An alternate solution without re-encoding the video in child.veg would be rendering the audio track into a WAV file and using it with the child.veg in parent.veg.

[Omer Aydin]

You can do it by hand in realtime without using any 3rd party software.
Here is how;
Open a new project and load the audio as Track 1
Add a new audio track and set it to Record mode.
Add Pitch Shift Fx to track 1.
Start Recording(*)
Since Pitch Shift has no automation control, adjust the pitch by hand in realtime while recording…
Set Track 2 to solo and render it as WAV to use in your project.

Hope it helps.

*(Your audio mixer must be set to record what it playbacks.)

[Omer Aydin]

BTW, VLC Player can DirectStreamCopy a FLV file into a MP4 container without re-encoding. I tested it using a FLV file (h264) and Vegas 9 opened it.

[Omer Aydin]

You are right. I just tried opening a flv with Vegas 6,7,8 and 9. It doesn’t work with 7 and above. Only Vegas 6 opens it. Sorry for the mislead. I thought 7 was also able to open it with ffdshow.

[Omer Aydin]

>>>I decided to resize all of my images to 720 x 540. Guess what? Things seem to work now. I can’t understand it,

I’m also having similar troubles like missing video events in Vegas 9e while working with ‘large’ projects. As the memory allocated by Vegas gets larger with added media, the strange things start to happen.
It sounds like a memory issue. No matter if the video is mp4, mpeg2, huffyuv or ffv1, it just randomly drops frames or replace frames with garbage memory blitter images just like the Commodore 64s used to display just after loading a program from tape.

I just exit and rerun Vegas when I encounter such problems.
(I don’t just reload the project because usually it does not work. I think Vegas needs to be shut down to fix its memory allocation issues.) After a fresh restart, it starts working fine for some time until it gets messed up again.

What frustrates me most is that the application does not notify you with a warning when it can’t handle a large image or decode a video properly. It just shows it as garbage or renders it as a blank like it’s all normal. I don’t know what other Vegas users think but I agree that Vegas is getting more “flaky” and unstable with each new version since the times of Sonic Foundry.

[Omer Aydin]

I downloaded the script and tried it on the .mov clips. You have saved me from editing a lot of alpha property. Thank you John 🙂

[Omer Aydin]

If only Vegas allowed adjusting properties of multi-selected clips.

I think alpha of image files are auto-enabled when loaded.

I agree that it may be a bug, or maybe it’s just for saving the stream type property.

[Omer Aydin]

Thanks for the reply John, unfortunately this solution didn’t work for me.

I dropped in a pre-keyed .mov file into the timeline and adjusted the properties just like you have posted above and saved the preset.
I tried adding in the other .mov files and they still had no alpha enabled.
Besides, it appears the saved preset only works in current project.
I had to re-adjust all clips when I imported them into another project.

[Omer Aydin]

There is a switch in `Audio Event Properties` / `Lock to strecth` that locks the audio playback rate to the time stretch if you don’t mind changing the pitch of the sound.

[Omer Aydin]

Thanks Kesiena. I followed your insructions and added some other effects like Bevel and I think it worked fine.