A few days ago I installed those Direct X 8 updates from
Microsoft. Direct X itself, and the DV one with PAL
support. For over 2 months I've been editing a music video.
I did all the audio in Vegas Video and have been using it
for all the video aswell. All my clips were captured using
the Soft DV codec, and I'm running Win 2000 and Me on a
Gateway 9300 laptop. Each OS on a separate drive.
Anyway, since installing those updates most of my avi files
are now corrupted. In Vegas Video when I try to preview one
of those files, it tells me that 'Video: Stream attributes
could not be determined'. Half the clips used in my project
are like this! They just won't render. They appear on the
timeline, but have lines through them. To give you an idea
of how much work I've put into this and how much this
worries me, I've got video edits on nearly every drum hit
of the song. Even 128th not drum fills. Although at 25fps,
you don't see any change below 32nd notes. Basically, it's
a very rhythmic track. I've been looking forward to posting
it up on a site so you could all see it when I finish it.
Unfortunately, it looks like that won't be happening.
These clips will still play back in Media Player, but they
appear pixelated. When I check the properties, no video
compressor is listed. It used to come up as DvSoft. Any new
video I capture turns out the same way. MPEG files playback
with this pixelated look also. The DivX previews I've made
are just the same.
This is by far the biggest computer problem I've
encountered in a long time. It's seems like 2 months of
intensive work down the drain, even though I save and
backup my project often. It's as if Microsoft have put a
virus in Direct X 8 which has ripped through my drives
destroying the video portion of nearly every video file on
my machine. On top of this, I've got a movie on here that a
friend has been putting together on and off for quite a
while also. Every one of his files has been affected. Even
the final AVi of a scene that he'd cmpleted for his film.
If anyone can help me out here, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Microsoft. Direct X itself, and the DV one with PAL
support. For over 2 months I've been editing a music video.
I did all the audio in Vegas Video and have been using it
for all the video aswell. All my clips were captured using
the Soft DV codec, and I'm running Win 2000 and Me on a
Gateway 9300 laptop. Each OS on a separate drive.
Anyway, since installing those updates most of my avi files
are now corrupted. In Vegas Video when I try to preview one
of those files, it tells me that 'Video: Stream attributes
could not be determined'. Half the clips used in my project
are like this! They just won't render. They appear on the
timeline, but have lines through them. To give you an idea
of how much work I've put into this and how much this
worries me, I've got video edits on nearly every drum hit
of the song. Even 128th not drum fills. Although at 25fps,
you don't see any change below 32nd notes. Basically, it's
a very rhythmic track. I've been looking forward to posting
it up on a site so you could all see it when I finish it.
Unfortunately, it looks like that won't be happening.
These clips will still play back in Media Player, but they
appear pixelated. When I check the properties, no video
compressor is listed. It used to come up as DvSoft. Any new
video I capture turns out the same way. MPEG files playback
with this pixelated look also. The DivX previews I've made
are just the same.
This is by far the biggest computer problem I've
encountered in a long time. It's seems like 2 months of
intensive work down the drain, even though I save and
backup my project often. It's as if Microsoft have put a
virus in Direct X 8 which has ripped through my drives
destroying the video portion of nearly every video file on
my machine. On top of this, I've got a movie on here that a
friend has been putting together on and off for quite a
while also. Every one of his files has been affected. Even
the final AVi of a scene that he'd cmpleted for his film.
If anyone can help me out here, I'd greatly appreciate it.