[Wayne Waag]

Rick,
You’re quite welcome. The masking tool is usually something you don’t use everyday, but when you need it, it’s invaluable. Glad I could help.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

For anyone with V12 and can’t decide if they should take the offer of V13 + V14 or wait and see till V14 arrives, consider this. It is likely that the scripting function in V14 will be “broken” because of legal changes and consequently many of the most useful scripts such as the Debugmode Frameserver will not work. See this thread.

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/showmessage.asp?messageid=947640

Since V13 is a lot more stable (at least for me) and has provided some very useful functions (e.g. built-in loudness logs) and fixed some real problems (e.g. use of native GoPro files), I would certainly recommend one give serious consideration to purchasing the package now.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Question for Wayne: how do I “applied a negative mask to the affected area”?

Here’s an example, except the masked border is on the left.

Open the pan/crop window and tick the Mask box. Then select the “box” (I think V12 has this capability. If not, use the pen tool.) on the left and draw the rectangle around the area to be masked. Initially, it will be positive, meaning only the area inside the box will be shown. Select the negative icon, and then only the area inside the box will be masked. There are also options for feathering, but in your case that can be ignored. That’s it.

One other thing. Make sure you apply the mask at the beginning of the event, unlike the example above where it’s somewhere in the middle of the event.

IMHO, learning to use the masking tool in Vegas is well worth the effort.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Rather than using track motion with solid black on the track above, you could have simply applied a negative mask to the affected area on your main video track, assuming you have no video on a track below.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Your problem, most likely, is using stills from your video source. At best, the resolution will be HD and can be quite blurry unless there is no motion in the scene. Rather than using VLC, you could use Vegas. Just use the copy snapshot function. Regardless, you are still limited by the use of a frame from the video. IMHO stills from a video never look good unless there is zero motion–even then they’re less than 2 MP.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Glad you solved your problem. My first impression–that’s really weird. I still don’t understand why that setting would have such an effect on your main display. Just curious–did you do the upgrade or clean install?

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

No problem here with Win 10 and Vegas Pro 13. I can preview to either a 2nd monitor or a 3rd monitor which is an HDTV. Nothing is cut off.

When you say “see timeline on my big flat screen”, exactly what do you mean? Are you talking about the timeline itself or just the preview window? A screenshot would be most useful.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Depending on your needs, you might try Blender.
https://www.blender.org/
At a good price–free.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

No, but you might try simply copying one or more of the offending media into the directory where events are OK and see if the problem persists. That way, you could isolate whether it’s the media that is the problem or something related to the drive itself.

wwaag

[Wayne Waag]

Handbrake does produce h264 video inside of a mp4 container. It is compatible with YouTube, Vimeo, etc. It uses the x264 encoder which is considered to be one of the best available and one that is widely used in other commercial software. Inside of Vegas, you can also use Sony AVC which produces h264 video. You can also use QuickSync with Sony AVC, although its limited to 720P

wwaag