OPERATION OF SONY VEGAS MOVIE 6 PROGRAM

RWHAYES wrote on 2/1/2007, 2:41 PM
I know little about how to make a movie. I have downloaded a video and can make the audio play as the line moves accross the frames. However, I cannot get a preview window. The bottom section of my screen is solid black where I believe there should be a preview screen. I have spent several hours trying to figure out how to put a preview screen in so I can see the video play while I try to edit the frames.

I shall appreciate any help anyone can give me.

Thanks,
RWHAYES

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Chienworks wrote on 2/1/2007, 6:08 PM
Is the clip on the timeline also black or do you see little thumbnail frames there? What kind of file did you download? What codec was used? There have been lots of reports of various forms of DivX / Xvid being incompatable with Vegas. You may have to install a certain version of the DivX player in order to get Vegas to display the video.
RWHAYES wrote on 2/17/2007, 9:57 AM
Chienworks, Thank you for your quick, kind response to my questions. The name of the file shows the following (VTS_01_1.VOB). I have used two different files on the particular project I am trying to do. In 1998 My wife and I took four college students to New Mexico and we built a church for a Navajo congregation. I used an 8mm camcorder. I took this film and used SONIC MY DVD to digitize it. I then made both a disk and saved it to my hard drive.
Now in trying to edit this I have a 4 Gig DVD which is VOB files. On the Hard Drive I have both VOB, VF, and MPEG files. When I first tried to work on this I was able to drag the video to the time line and try to cut on it. However, somewhere in the process we lost the video on the time line and cannot open it any more. When we play it we get the Audio and we watch the lines move accross the Video time line and can see it in the small preview box at the bottom right of the the screen but cannot see the pictures on the time line to help us in cutting.
Since my first note was the first time I had tried to use a forum I just opened your response today after two and a half weeks. That is why I haven't responded to your help more quickly.
I shall surely appreciate any suggestions you can make. If I have not provided the needed information please don't hesitate to tell me what I need to do. I simply want to learn. Thank You. Ralph