From where I sit the software is defective. I know that all software has bugs, but this is pretty serious and should never have made it past QE

Might help if you translated this into VV jargon.

I assume you have created an event from a still image and you're trying to replace that with something like a filmstrip from Photoshop.

If I've interpreted this correctly then from memory this has come up before and it isn't meant to work, you have to convert the filmstrip into an AVI to bring it in.

WF - I'm understnading an image sequence is just that - sequence of images, maybe rendered as an AVI. Is that correct? OR are you saying that the image sequence is a sequence of separate images, say image_001.png to image_009.png?

I'm trying to get a grip/handle on your experience,

Regards

Grazie

Ok you are trying to replace a single piece of media with a sequence of images.


So you have x.avi and you want to replace it with x1.jpg, x2.jpg, x3.jpg

so if your original AVI was 10 seconds long you would have an image sequence of about 300 individual images. Is this correct?

seems kind of a weird thing to do but if I had to do it I would import the sequence in seperately and replace manualy. You would have better control over it. Unless the original media was in a whole lot of places it wouldn't be that big of a task, and if it was all over the place it would be worth the extra effort to just render the image sequence to AVI and then replace.


**I just tried this, and I could see this being a usefull feature and it does seem to either not work right (first frame only) or crash, it seems to try to find an audio stream. But you can just import the sequence and replace manually if you really needed to do this.

Here is a full explanation of why I need to replace media with an image sequence in Vegas. That technique WOULD have been the solution to my problems, except there is a bug in Vegas. ARGH!!!

FYI the reason I need to use image sequences instead of AVI files is this: the file size of uncompressed AVIs at 1920x1080 resolution would be in the tens of gigabytes-- hardly an option considering available disk space and file management issues.

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I am working on a 1080p HD project that will be output to film via a film recorder. I need advice on what affordable software (if any) I can use to manage the proxy files.

The problem is this: there is no way I can play back HD res footage on my computer. So I need an application that can intelligently handle low res proxy footage in the timeline.

So far I have tried Premiere, Vegas, and After Effects. Premiere and Vegas are both useless because whenever you make a cut or any change to the timeline, the proxy files are deleted! So if I make a cut I have to wait for 30 minutes for the proxy files to re-render.

After Effects keeps a one-to-one nondestructive link between each clip and its associated proxy file. That's great, except that playback in AE is so incredibly slow as to be pointless. Even a 320x180 movie with no effects will only play back at 5fps from the AE timeline.

So, is there an NLE for under $2000 that will allow me to render a realtime proxy preview from the timeline, and keep those proxy files nondestructively linked to the HD footage?

I just tried a way that seems to have worked for me, I do not have any 1920x1080 images but I have a whole bunch of 1600x1200 still images.

What I did was...

1. made 2 copies of the folder containing the image sequence.

2. resized the images in one folder to 655x480

3. imported the resized images into vegas as a sequence.

4. did a quick little edit, cut and rearranged the clip and added some effects to some of the smaller clips.


5. saved the veg file, closed vegas, renamed the "resize folder" to something else and renamed the original "large size" folder to the "resize folder"s original name.

As long as the images in the sequences have the same name vegas will load them. Then I changed the properties of the project to 1080p settings and adjusted the aspect ratio.


If I had to do what you are doing this is how I would do it. Its not perfect but I think it would work. The only thing that MIGHT be an issue is keeping audio synced, but I think that would even be ok.


Also, if you in need of a way to manage a lot of still images, including batch resize and sequential rename I recommend Acdsee.

I don't know if your post is going to help the Weasel, but it's a great trick. You really should compile a book of all the cool tricks you've developed in Vegas.

Satan - That is just too elegant - Brilliant! Thanks for the tip,

Grazie

Thanks SatanJr, that sounds like a good workaround. Why didn't I think of that?

yes, this will work if u originally started with an image seq. ... however in my project (not trying to steal the thread :) ) i started with a lo rez proxy avi and now i want to replace with high res, uncompressed tga (image sequence) - and i cannot find a work around for that!! - anyone