I'm just finishing up a 2 1/2 hour documentary shot in HDV and surround sound, and I've had a couple of irksome quirks with Vegas. The first one, the "black frames" thing, was eventually sorted out by re-capturing and/or replacing the offending clips on the timeline. I had about 6 over the whole project.

The second quirk is a pain. I shoot surround sound with the rear audio going onto Minidisc. After a decent roughcut using only the image and front audio I then pull in sound from the Minidisc recordings and sync and trim them to match the front audio. I've found that it's important to get down to frame-level accuracy or the sound is odd.

What I learned in the past week is that if I do all my editing in the GearShifted dv version of the project and then GearShift back to m2t for final renders, all the audio on the m2t track is shifted about 1 frame. This means I need to go back in and not only shift the surround track one frame but also to laboriously adjust each and every audio cut point so that it exactly matches the front audio cut points. One of these days I'll try to do a batch "slip" and see if that works, but the ideal would be where the audio doesn't shift at all when going from m2t to dv formats. Any thoughts why that might be happening?

EDIT:

I think "Irksome Quirks" would be a GREAT name for a rock band.