Glitchy edits?

Princeospace wrote on 10/29/2004, 10:20 AM

I'm new to Vegas and so will be posting a few questions today.

First up, I have noticed that when I burn a job to DVD (MPEG2), about half of my edits have little flashes or glitches in them. Of course they're brief -- about a field's worth, I assume -- but they are noticable. When moving through the edit-points a frame at a time, the edits are clean as a whistle. But during normal playback there are instantaneous flashes in the edits. Am I doing something wrong that I don't know about? As I said, 50% of the edits have no problems.

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gogiants wrote on 10/29/2004, 10:41 AM

One thought: You might want to check that "snap to frames" is set to on. Forget where this is in the menu structure, but it should be easily found.

Then, scan all the way in using the +/- controls in the bottom right of the screen. Then you will be able to visually see whether your edit/transition points are occurring on frame boundaries.

Apologies if you already knew this, but you do need a different key sequence to move frame by frame along the timeline. Just pressing the arrow keys will typically go multiple frames.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/29/2004, 11:20 AM

Also, locate one of the spots on your video timeline where you see a flash on your final movie and zoom in as tightly as you can. Occasionally I've found tiny gaps between clips that aren't otherwise visible.

"Snap to grid" may be the culprit rather than the solution. Sometimes clips snap to the grid at one end but leave maybe a frame gap at the other.

This has been, in fact, one of my frustrations with this otherwise beautiful program. To find these gaps, I usually end up doing a Make Movie of an AVI and then previewing it in Windows Media Player. Then I go back and correct the gaps in my original edit timeline.

The best prevention I've found is to uncheck Automatic Crossfades and, when you drop in a new clip, ram it up against the one before it.