Camtasia file plays in Vegas, blank in DVDA

DavidMcKnight wrote on 6/26/2007, 8:06 AM
I've never seen anything like this before; I had a Powerpoint slide deck from a client to use in the video. One section of the ppt was animated and I wanted that to translate into the project, so I used the demo of camtasia to record that part of the ppt as it was running and it saved to (I believe) an uncompressed avi file.

Placed on the Vegas timeline it plays back fine. But, when I render the project to mpeg 2, DVDA NTSC template, that one section of the veg does not show. I have a black gen media underneath and that is what comes through. No other part of the veg is affected like this, and as I said it does play back just fine from the timeline.

Any ideas why something that plays from the V timeline won't playback in DVDA?

V 7.0e and DVDA 4.0b, btw.


DM

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Former user wrote on 6/26/2007, 8:11 AM
If you play the MPEG file in WMP, does it play fine or is it black there as well? Is the problem present if you render to another format, such as DV?

Dave T2
DavidMcKnight wrote on 6/26/2007, 8:15 AM
Having blinders on, I only worked with mpeg2 files & DVDA. I'll check some other options tonight; I suspect it's something to do with settings in camtasia or the file it outputs in general; I would just think that if there were a problem with it that it wouldn't play on the timeline. But, good points. I'll troubleshoot further tonight.
DavidMcKnight wrote on 6/26/2007, 8:01 PM
Tried rendering just the camtasia file in question to ntsc dv avi, uncompressed avi, and uncompressed quicktime - same results. The animation isn't that important to me, I'll just put the regular slide up there.
PeterWright wrote on 6/26/2007, 10:36 PM
Not exactly the same problem, but almost certainly related - in
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=530030this thread[/link]
which also involved Camtasia, I had the experience of white font turning black.

I found a workaround without finding a real solution ...