1 Frame Flash during Print to tape (PPT) at file joint point

chewbonkay wrote on 6/24/2002, 5:55 PM

I'm very frustrated. I completed a 45 minute video and rendered to an .avi file. (Windows 98SE, VV 3.0b Build 128). Because I am FAT32 Vegas created 3 files. In order to print to tape I took my computer off the network, rebooted, shut off every non-essential piece of software (virus, firewall etc.) and used videocapture to print to tape.

When I watched the miniDV master I had made, everything looked great until about 37:00 into it, where there was a quick one frame flash of odd-footage. I checked my original file and it wasn't there. Upon, close examination I found that it is at the EXACT point that the vegas file ceremony01.avi connects to file ceremony02.avi. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? The earlier joint of ceremony.avi to ceremony01.avi did not have any problems.

Furthermore, I also did a 64 minute print the same night and all 4 joints were fine. So again, how do I stop this from happening. I accept that print to tape can have problems but when everything prints as expected (meaning no dropped frames or firewire problems), it kills me that something so simple could kill the print nearly 40 minutes into it. Any ideas?

Has anyone else ever seen this? Thanks.

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HPV wrote on 6/24/2002, 7:32 PM

Yes, I've seen it. Reported it here, but nobody (not even the SF crew) will respond.
Vegas renders too much audio in avi DV files as factory configured. I guess everyone uses NTSF file format and doesn't see it. But anyone using 98 or ME will get a glitch like you had sooner or later. So will NTSF users if they ever try to butt up two rendered clips in another project. Chewy, load that bad avi, ctrl/alt/right arrow to the end of the clip and horz. zoom the timeline. You'll see the extra audio.
The problem is the default setting for audio interleave in a DV stream. Go to Render As/Custom Settings/Video/uncheck the the "interleave every (seconds)" box and check the "interleave every frame" box.

Craig H.

chewbonkay wrote on 6/24/2002, 8:35 PM

Thanks for your help. I followed your suggestion and sure enough I do see what you describe. I'm going to try your advice but I did want to point out that in this case my source file also has the small amount of extra video. The 45 minute project I spoke of is basically the final "broadcast clamped" render of a series of other vegas rendered clips. I don't know if this could play a role at all but I thought I'd throw it out there.