All video tracks now transparent?

Fresh wrote on 8/11/2019, 2:29 PM

Hi Friends,
Last night i was messing around with some Vitascene ProVad filters, and somewhere along the line i think it messed with my project's video settings. Basically, it seems as if all video tracks are now transparent, and i can't seem to undo it.

I've checked the 'composition level' on each track to make sure it's at 100%. Under compositing mode, i've made sure all channels are set to 'Alpha'. I've removed all of the Vitascene filters and have checked all other settings to try and figure it out.

Any ideas? Is there a setting that disables track order, making top tracks no more important than bottom ones?

I've taken a screenshot of this problem. Normally, the top track should dominate, not sure what's happening, thanks for any suggestions...

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Marco. wrote on 8/11/2019, 2:35 PM

With your screenshot being cropped it is impossible to see what's going on in your project.

Fresh wrote on 8/11/2019, 3:04 PM

Hi Marco, thanks for that, here's a larger screenshot...

 

Marco. wrote on 8/11/2019, 3:46 PM

I see you have a Video (Master-) Bus Track added to your project with some kind of envelope in it. This will affect all other video tracks. What happens if you disable/delete that video master bus track?

ram17 wrote on 8/11/2019, 4:51 PM

Marco is right, you've got a Master Video Track activated, if I'm not mistaken that is a Motion Blur Envelope on it. Right click on that track then Insert/Remove Envelope-->Motion Blur Amount (or see that nothings check on that 4 options there)

Fresh wrote on 8/12/2019, 3:38 PM

Guys thanks for the suggestions, indeed there is motion blur but i've disabled that too, and nothing changes. Fortunately i'd rendered a decent version of the video so i think i'll just use that and never again play around with the vitascene plugins, at least not on an almost completed project.

Hopefully someone else runs into a similar situation and figures out the solution. I've been using Sony Vegas for years now and what's happening in this project doesn't make sense, in terms of how the software is behaving.
Let's file this under Sony Vegas mysteries, and thanks for your suggestions.

Fresh wrote on 8/12/2019, 4:10 PM

I should add this interesting follow up. If I engage the 'FX Bypassed' (turns blue) on the preview window, the problem goes away. So there's definitely an 'effect' of some sort causing it, but disabling ALL the effects manually doesn't make the problem go away. It's almost as if there's a stealth 'FX' that i can't see but is acting on the tracks. Weird. In any case, i can work around it but removing overlaying clips.

Fresh wrote on 8/12/2019, 4:19 PM

Ok, i see the problem. Whatever plugin i must have loaded moved the order of the composite to the back of the chain, causing it to behave strangely. When i moved the composite back to the front, it's back to normal.

Thanks again for trying to help.