Digital Juice ETK/Vegas question

klgood1 wrote on 12/31/2005, 9:26 AM

I just picked up Digital Juice's Editor's Toolkit 9 (The Christmas one) off ebay this week. I've never used their stuff before, but it seems pretty straightforward. I've rendered a few of the clips to use, and am having some problems, however. Whenever I try to render from Juicer in AVI format, all I get is total black video -- nothing showing at all. I've tried three different codecs, and also uncompressed AVI. If I render to Quicktime MOV, it comes out fine. Am I missing something?

Also, what is the best way to use this with Vegas? Should I just put the PNG sequence in, or render it to some type of movie clip before adding it to my project?

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 12/31/2005, 10:35 AM

Personally, I use the png sequences. Faster, easier.
As far as the black...Quicktime 32 is the best I'm aware of for this, so you pick up the alpha channel. You need an uncompressed file if you want to maintain the alpha. You can also do a 32 bit avi, but I don't have juicer on my laptop to check the settings.

tharris wrote on 12/31/2005, 11:50 AM

I ran into this exact problem as I too just got a couple of the ETKs last week. Here is the response from Digital Juice tech support regarding completely black AVIs:

There is a bug we have been chasing that will render black AVI files.
It seems to happen if other software is open at the same time Juicer2 is
running.

If you re-boot, and start up Juicer2 by itself, you should be able to render
AVI files with proper color.

klgood1 wrote on 12/31/2005, 4:05 PM

Wow, I'd say that's a pretty serious bug. I messed around with different AVI codecs for a half hour before I gave up and tried PNG sequences, which worked great. Thanks for the help, guys.

Chanimal wrote on 12/31/2005, 4:35 PM

I have always renderd to Quicktime. I get the transparency and I leave the file rendered for use in other productions.