HELP! Weird Problems

mjroddy wrote on 4/26/2006, 5:43 PM

First, Please allow me to vocalize a pet peeve I have about Vegas:
I REALLY bugs me how much I have to fight with it to down covert a project from HDV to SD. It changes up all the aspect ratios and placement.
I mean, I just finished a nice spot that had a little montage in the middle, consisting of 5 PIPs and graphic elements. It looks fine when in HDV, but as soon as I render to SD, the background I used gets resized, but the PIPs stay in place, making them "float" outside the 16:9 area.
So the trick I've taken to doing is to Render To New Track as a Single HDV File. Then I render that out as SD and all is well.
BUT on each of my PIPs, I have a drop shadow. As I render out the single HDV file, one or two of those shadows are flickering in a big way. It's HIGHLY destracting and down-right irritating.
What can I do to settle down the Shadows?
There are NO keyframes on the shadows, the flickering does NOT happen on a RAM Preview or a standard scrub of the timeline. Only on a render.
Vegas is also randomly crashing when rendering to HD or HDV.
I'm so bummed...

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 4/26/2006, 6:02 PM

I'm sure I've posted this before so you've probably read it. However, this workflow works for me in converting HDV to SD:

My workflow for HDV to SD projects

jrazz wrote on 4/26/2006, 7:16 PM

I also use the method described by john in that post. I've not had a single problem in downconverting.

j razz

mjroddy wrote on 4/27/2006, 12:08 PM

First, Thanks Very Much!!
Next - what an IRRITATING work around!
I've recently demoed Avid, Avid Liquid and Matrox/Axio/Premier and none of them make you jump through those hoops.
Now, Let me say that I have been and will likely be - devoted to Vegas. It's a great little program, but not without it's very rough quirks.
I understand aspect ratios being changed and all that, but what I DON'T understand is why it can't render my HDV (or HD) files without the doggon drop shadows flashing - and why it's necessary to jump through the afformentioned hoops.
And again, MY basic work flow is to edit in HDV, then render to a new track a Single File and then render THAT as a SD file. That typically worked for me, but in this case it's REALLY hassling me. I can't render without a crash (in HD) and rendering in anything OTHER than HD screws up placement (since I didn't go through the maddness mentioned in the above post).
It would be GREAT if you could - Just Render To SD and it would simply take the project, downcovert it with the proper aspect ratios and spit out a file that can be Printed To Tape. One step SHOULD do it.
I'm very frustrated, but I'll get over it.