Artifacts in the same place each time...

Jessariah67 wrote on 6/3/2002, 7:46 PM
Hey All,

I'm getting digital breakup on a background clip. It only happens with this particular clip, at the same place. I use the clip later on and it's fine. I've rendered twice -- both times, it's there.

Is there some sort of "buffer" that VV3 draws from where this particular version of the event could be corrupted? Has anyone else experienced this?

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Cheesehole wrote on 6/3/2002, 11:22 PM
>>>Is there some sort of "buffer" that VV3 draws from where this particular version of the event could be corrupted? Has anyone else experienced this?

the buffer is in RAM unless you use Pre-render so that probably isn't it... maybe it's tweaking out the codec. what format are you rendering to?
Jessariah67 wrote on 6/3/2002, 11:43 PM
I'm rendering to AVI.

Thanks for any help.
Jessariah67 wrote on 6/4/2002, 6:33 AM
I pulled the event out and replaced it, then rendered for the third time -- the artifacts are still there. Three occurances, all in the same place.

I threw the rendered avi into the project to look at it with the markers, etc. and found something: the artifacts are occuring at the loop points of the event. This back ground loops 3 times. It is at each loop point that the problem is occuring.

I tried to manually repeat it. Still happened. Bounced the repetitions between two tracks. Still happened. Finally, I used different instances of the same event and crossfaded the ends -- looks like that's going to work.

Why would that be?
Ron Lucas wrote on 6/4/2002, 8:14 AM
I did a photo montage a month ago with about 45 pictures. A few of the black and white pictures that I made move around the screen showed some strange artifacts.

In trying to figure out why this was happening, I changed VV30a preferences to use the Microsoft Codec and the problem went away. I don't use the Microsoft Codec unless I run into this issue which I've only seen once so far.

I'm not sure if this is related to your situation, but maybe you could try using the Microsoft Codec as a test and see what happens.

Ron