Nothing has worked in days of trying (Still now)

CarChoiCoa wrote on 10/31/2009, 1:11 PM

Hi,

I have never videoed anything but have the canon dc330 dvd/hd, filed a series of things on one dvd. I can import them just fine. I have the Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack 9.0B, build 92. My computer is a Win XP Pro Service Pack 3, Dell Pentuim 4 CPU, 3.60 GHz, 2.99 GB ram.

There are a series of problems and I have googled stuff, read the manual, searched UTube, etc. I have even submitted an email to support days ago and still no response.

I have multiple issues: NEVERMIND ALL THESE - GOT IT BUT now after 5 HOURS of rendering I have blackness. No idea why. All my settings are decribed a couple posts down. I can't even render a LOOP region when checked. ANY Ideas?

3. I filmed in HD/widescreen and ALL I want is to get it to You Tube. I don't even care about doing anything cool at the beginning or end. ALL I want is from point A to point B of each "clip" on the 30 minute DVD. Can I work on the whole 30 minute dvd, edit each section and have it render as separate videos?

Obviously what I'm missing is so simple no one decided to include it in the manual!! Or on YouTube!!

I am happy to donate money to quality help....... I have seriously wasted a LOT of time on this. I would like to be able to find a reliable quality person to help me that can also do more complex projects for clients down the road because I am offering videoing for my clients to put on their websites. I have professional lighting kits, etc., and it's part of my website launch....... Which is waiting for this video!!!

Thank you for any help!!!

Jodi

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Himanshu wrote on 10/31/2009, 2:11 PM

Welcome to the forum. May I suggest the "show me how" tutorials that come with the product to get started on the basics of the application?

Another excellent resource is the SCS web site itself. There are video tutorials for Vegas pro, but you can view them and a majority of it is applicable to Vegas Movie Studio.

If you search this forum for "tutorial" you will come up with all kinds of information! You can search for "YouTube" and that will yield results too.

As far as getting useful help - it would help if you use the correct terminology so that others may understand what it is you're not able to do, and are having trouble with. "bar" and "thing" aren't descriptive enough to know for sure what you are speaking of...one can only guess what it might be.

CarChoiCoa wrote on 10/31/2009, 2:43 PM

Thank you so much for your help. I did the "tutorials" and they were vaguely useful. You click along with it except to "edit video" it instructed me to "drag and drop" video on the TEXT bar, which I knew was wrong so a complete waste of my time. Most of the others seemed correct and did not address ANY of the issues mentioned above.

There is only one long series of ''Bar thingys" so that's not hard for people to know what I'm talking about. I have video on the Video "bar" and Voice on the "voice" bar.

I have watched MANY tutorials on Youtube, I mentioned that. I have done ALL relevant tutorials up on the screen. I will try the tutorial videos you mentioned, the video I just watched from a very helpful bmeyers.com was for Pro not my version but most of the settings seemed to apply.

I went ahead and edited all the videos on the video "bar" and then selected the render as and set the setting per a YouTube video from Bmeyers.com. Since it now looks like it's going to take a couple hours these videos might actually turn out correctly!! All the other times it rendered in less than a minute.

My offer still stands for someone "helpful" that would like to make money. Please contact me!

Thanks a bunch!!

amendegw wrote on 10/31/2009, 4:22 PM

Yeah, terminology is everything.

I'm guessing the "Video Bar" is a track. I'm also guessing that CarChoiCoa has all his captured clips selected in the "Project Media Window". Therefore, he is dragging all the clips to his "Video Bar" (i.e. Track).

If this is, indeed, the problem, he should single click on one video icon in the "Project Media Window", then click on it again and drag it, alone, to the Track.

In order to delete an event (clip) from a track, merely click on the event and press the "delete" key.

Good Luck!
...Jerry

amendegw wrote on 10/31/2009, 4:41 PM

One more guess...

I'm guessing the reason you need to re-import your video each time you open Vegas is that you've neglected to save the project when you exit Vegas - just a guess.

...Jery

CarChoiCoa wrote on 10/31/2009, 8:27 PM

You are right, I have a bunch in there..........

The drama continues......... After 5 HOURS of "rendering" I have nothing but a black screen when I try to play the "video".

I have deleted everything off the video track but one measly clip that is 3 minutes long and still it doesn't render properly. I selected "render as" and "loop selection only". I have the video "template" set up as:
windows media 11 (.wmv)
template custom:
Video:
Mode: cbr
Format: windows media 9 (an 11 option doesn't come up but it says .wmv)
Image sz: High def 1280x720
pixel aspect ratio: 1.0 square
frame rate: 29.970 NTSC
seconds per frame: 5
Override default compression butter: 8 (box is checked at the beginning)
Video smoothness: 100

I don't understand why it's not rendering properly. Any idea anyone? I have googled "black screen upon rendering" and not found anything.

Thanks for any advice.

Jodi

Eugenia wrote on 10/31/2009, 11:50 PM

Two suggestions:
1. Try exporting with another codec, e.g. Sony AVC h.264.
2. Copy/paste the entire timeline in a new Vegas window, with the right project properties, and then export from there. If your project file is corrupted this can help.

amendegw wrote on 11/1/2009, 2:22 AM

The drama continues......... After 5 HOURS of "rendering" I have nothing but a black screen when I try to play the "video".

Do you have the section your project that you want to render selected as a loop? Make sure this is done or unclick "loop selection only" to render the entire project.

The "loop selection only" option is really handy if you want to run a test and save yourself from a 5 hour render, but it can bite you if you forget to select something when you want to render the entire project.

Good Luck!
...Jerry

PS: One more thought, look at the controls on your video track, there's a circle with a slash. If you hover your mouse over this icon, it will say "mute". If this is selected, all you will get is "black".

laz wrote on 11/3/2009, 2:36 AM

Another thing to try is converting the files 1st. Any Video converter http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/ is even better than Super. If you convert to avi it'll be quicker to edit than mpeg.