Paul Whitlock
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Max, I was a little premature in my response to your suggestion. I’m sure you are a genius, but pushing “escape” doesn’t solve my problem, after all. What it does is to un-solo the layer carrying the removed sounds – ie, turns it from red to green. I can then see the sounds that have been removed in green – but they have to be in red before you can make any adjustments to them. When I click the layer, to solo it again, I’m back to a screen with no sound or frequency lines on the timeline. But thanks for your inputs, anyway.
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Max, you’re a genius. Worked perfectly. Many thanks.
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John, I also seem to have fixed my original color problem and thought you might be interested in how. My project consists of a number of different .veg files, that I want to combine together, for authoring in DVDA. I discovered that you can’t combine different files in DVDA and someone in the Forum explained nesting to me, which seemed the answer. So, I opened a new Vegas file, called it master.veg and did file/import/media to bring in each of my separate .veg projects. Then I rendered master.veg to mpg2 and opened in DVDA – and saw the color problems. The solution I found – and you probably already know this – was to open the first of my .veg files in Vegas, save it as master.veg, then file/import/media the subsequent .veg files in the usual nesting process. Color was perfect. Just FYI.
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I seem to have solved my rendering problem by turning off GPU acceleration.
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Thanks, John. That’s useful – but it’s a new problem that I didn’t have before, so I wonder why it’s just starting now. While I have your attention, may I ask another question? On this same project, after rendering the whole 3 1/2 hour-long video and seeing the color phenomenon already discussed, I decided to split it into two shorter videos, each about 100 minutes, and burn it to two BluRay discs, avoiding additional compression. I have been trying to render the first of these two shorter and get 5% into the render when it just freezes. There is no warning notice, it just stops rendering. I have tried several times, to see if it stops on the same frame – it doesn’t, but always around 5%. My original project, by the way, is a nested file, which, as you know, renders the media files as it imports them. Not sure if this has any bearing. I also uninstalled Vegas Pro 12, build 563, and reinstalled, but no improvement. Any ideas appreciated.
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Well, thanks for all your efforts. I seem to specialise in problems that haven’t been seen before 🙂
My drivers are up-to-date and the video card is one of the latest, so I don’t think I want to downgrade either for Spectralayers. I’ll just live with Vegas Pro on one computer and Spectralayers on another and put this down to one more Sony fail.
Thanks again for doing your best to help, I do appreciate it. -
I turned off the Aero feature and it made no difference to Spectralayers’ operation; nor did it when I changed the “selected layer” to several colors other than red, green and black. I can’t see any option for changing the background color. Then I tried installing the software in my old computer. It worked fine, so there must be some issue with my new computer. Haven’t seen any other issues, though. I don’t know what the QT libraries are, so can’t comment there.
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Thanks for doing this research, Mark. My video card is an ATI Sapphire Radeon HD7970, with 3gb of memory, which should be adequate. I checked the logs and could see no errors listed. I reset all colors and all settings, without success. And I uninstalled with the Windows “program uninstall” function, before installing Build 25, so it wasn’t a forced uninstall. I’m not sure how to check the registry for left-over entries. I opened the practice project again from the program disc and the length shows as 20.554. I found a way to see the extracted waveform, in green, by clicking off the “new layer” box, to turn it green; but the tools are greyed out, so no further manipulation is possible.
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Mark, I downloaded and installed Build 25, too. No difference at all, the problem remains.
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Mark, if the screen shots work, No1 shows the audio file opened in Spectralayers; No2 shows the Siren layer selected and the siren frequency highlighted and extracted; No3 shows what I see when I click the speaker icon by the main layer – nothing. Hope this works.
