Green in timeline

NOKNOT wrote on 1/23/2009, 9:05 PM
I would like to thank everybody for the help I have received.I have tried to e-mail tech. support but can't get through. I have about 50 video clips I am trying to insert into Vegas MovieStudio Platinum 9's Time Line. They range from 9 minutes to 30 sec. Everything works fine for awhile. I had about half loaded and decided to play through them to make sure I did not have any overlapping.As I was watching them on the preview screen I noticed on most,when it would come to the next scene I would get a quick green flash appearing on the screen. I deleted the project and started over. I would load about 5 scenes then check them as I went. Everything was looking great until I got almost finished then the green spaces appeared again as I previewed the video. Thanks.

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/23/2009, 9:43 PM
A friend of mine has the same problem: occasionally, there will be green frames in his movies. Very bizar. His camera: the canon fs100. What is yours?

Ivan
NOKNOT wrote on 1/24/2009, 7:01 AM
It's a Panasonic PV-GS320. Has your friend rendered the movie to see if the finished product has the green in it? Thanks.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/24/2009, 7:18 AM
Sometimes the video and audio lengths are not exact and you end up butting the ends of the audio, leaving small gaps between the video frames. In Vegas, sometimes weirdie stuff drops into those tiny gaps.

Turn "Quantize to Frames" on, enable Snapping, expand your timeline out to where you can see resolution to individual frames, and hand-drag the video events so they mate exactly at frame boundaries. If it ends up that there is a little overlap (crossfade) of the audio it is usually not noticed.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/24/2009, 8:50 AM
Yes, the green frame ends up in the final rendered file, and also shows in the vimeo streaming video.
In my friend's case - don't know if it matters - he groups audio from a separate recorder to the video and then edits the footage. The green frame will occur at unpredictable place after rendering, but not in the preview.
NOKNOT wrote on 1/24/2009, 12:01 PM
Thanks everyone for your help. I'm so far into this project I'll just go ahead and burn it and see what happens. I'll try your suggestions on the next one, musicvid. There is so much to learn with this program and so little information in the manual. Thanks again.