I have vidoes from my iphone i am trying to edit and are glitchy

James-Smith7105 wrote on 6/13/2023, 7:30 AM

Hi guys

I have videos from my phone which when put into vegas they become very glitchy sometimes flashing green and pink and grey. I tried on vegas 19 and now tried 20 for a month and still not working. Sometimes the video is not seen at all and is just black but the audio works every time. Just wondering if vegas supports this footage or how to get around it.

Can see the timeline is all glitchy there and pink and grey colours. Then if you click play the video will just feeze and audio will work.

cheers

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RogerS wrote on 6/13/2023, 7:44 AM

Some phone footage doesn't decode well in VEGAS. I'd convert it all before bringing into VEGAS (try h.264 or ProRes if you have plenty of drive space) using a free tool like https://www.shutterencoder.com/

Dexcon wrote on 6/13/2023, 7:52 AM

Phone video is invariably recorded in Variable Frame Rate (VFR) rather than Constant Frame Rate (CFR) as used by video cameras.

From a gzillion comments about this on the forum over the years, Vegas Pro unfortunately doesn't work well with VFR footage particularly if there is a significant difference between the lower and higher frame rates.

The most often suggestion offered is to transcode phone footage from VFR to CFR via a transcoder such as HandBrake or ShutterEncoder (both free).

Unfortunately, this may not explain the color glitches.

Former user wrote on 6/13/2023, 8:26 AM

I haven't got an iPhone but I think iPhones record Dolby Vision HDR which is 10bit HEVC? , turning off HDR helps with Vegas, HDR is often recorded in HEVC, I'm not sure how well Vegas is with HEVC nowadays but turning it off in your phone will produce 8bit AVC files which are much more acceptable, ,