Dissolves and Rendering

edit_suite wrote on 6/4/2003, 12:32 PM
This happens infrequently: If I copy a clip from one Vegas project and try to paste it into another Vegas project in another window, it actually pastes a clip I did not copy but which is located somewhere within the project from which I copied the clip.

Also getting some "blips" / video and audio dropouts while dumping to tape. These blips are not visible/audible if simply viewing the rendered file (.AVI) as-is in the Vegas Video preview.

This happens sometimes: I create page rolls on two video tracks in the same project, three clips on one track and three clips DIRECTLY below; the text clips on one track are the same length and at the same position (starting and ending at the same time...including frames) as the text clips on the track below. If I PRECISELY line up the page rolls (all the same length) between each text clip on each track, they each appear as one page roll when previewing in .VEG format. However, when I render into .AVI format, they appear as SEPARATE rolls, one a few frames behind the other, even though the rolls begin and end at the same time on the timeline. The page roll I use is the "Top-Left, Medium Curl".

Another problem: Some projects I do have a Fade Through White dissolve at the end, about 17 frames. Just fine when previewing (in .VEG format), but when rendered into .AVI, one frame of black appears in the Fade Through White. This happened a lot a few months ago, stopped for a few weeks, and now occurs again.

All projects are 720 x 480 x 32.

If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it :)

Comments

SonyDennis wrote on 6/4/2003, 12:46 PM
Set your Video Preview to "Good (Full)" or "Best (Full)" and see if any of these anomolies occur while stepping through frames. The video engine is doing all of the same things it does during a render then (field rendering, deinterlacing, resampling).

I'll need more detailed repro steps for many of these, though.

///d@
edit_suite wrote on 6/4/2003, 1:16 PM
I set the preview quality to "best" and no frame of black was visible in the Fade Through White (in .VEG format). I then rendered it in .AVI format. The frame of black was still visible. I am using Vegas 3.0.
edit_suite wrote on 6/4/2003, 2:32 PM
I should note that the copy and paste problems I had did not occur with video clips but rather generated media/text clips.
HPV wrote on 6/4/2003, 3:54 PM
I should note that the copy and paste problems I had did not occur with video clips but rather generated media/text clips.
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Generated media doesn't paste to other projects. A workaround is to copy/paste keyframes.

Craig H.
edit_suite wrote on 6/4/2003, 4:16 PM
Whether or not it was generated media...now that I think back, I cannot remember specifically. What I do remember specifically is that the clip that I copied was not the clip that would paste.
edit_suite wrote on 6/4/2003, 4:29 PM
I'm now thinking (but not for certain) that the clip I attempted to copy and paste was an .avi rendered file (one text clip with a video clip) before I attempted to copy and paste it into another project/vegas window. Sorry for any confusion...