I am posting here because I have found a possible issue with Vegas rendered files and the 1.4.2 stand alone encoder from MainConcept. I wanted to see if anyone else here has had any problems.
Here is the scenrio - you load up a DV file that should be at 720x480 but it loads up as 360x240. What I did not notice at first is that it was using the DirectShow import module. Suggestion from Mark at MC was to try moving the AVI Import mod up, so I did and that solved the problem, or so I thought. I started to notice something else - if I loaded up a file that was rendered in Vegas with the 2-3-3-2 pulldown it used the DirectShow module. But more interesting was that I could load up another file rendered the same way and it would load fine. Than I noticed the run time - one was about 3 minutes and one was about 14 minutes. So than I thought is was file size related.
So I disabled the DirectShow import module and than any Vegas rendered file using the pulldown returns an error of "No Video Data found". Ah - the plot thickens! So now I try to load up a full render of about 65 minutes - same error. So it must the size of the file right? Wrong because I load up the same project but rendered with the MainConcept codec, not the Vegas one - run time is still about 65 minutes - and it loads perfect using the "DV Import (Type1 and raw)" mod.
So my deduction at this point is it might have something to do with the headers that Vegas writes to long files? Mark thinks it might be some directShow filter setting telling DV files to decode at a lower resolution. But if so I can't find it plus this seems to only happen with Vegas rendered files that run longer than 9 minutes 57(ish) seconds with pulldown. (See below)
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P.S - I followed a path here - DV Rendered file in AE with MC_DV opens fine. 5 minute run time, fine. 9 minute run time fine. 9 min 57 sec fine. 9 minute 59 and over is iffy...rendered with MainConcpet DV codec it opens but with deafult Vegas codec, no. I take the same files but re-rendered in Vegas with the pulldown - 5 minute fine. 9 minute fine. 10 minute - problems. Opens with DirectShow at 360x240. So anything with pulldown rendered in Vegas that is over 9 minutes has the error. Anything not rendered with MainConcept DV codec opens with DirectShow.
Anyone here have ideas or the same problem? 1.4.1 did *not* have this issue. I know because I took the full Vegas render with 2-3 pulldown and it worked with no issues. Now the same file will only load using the DirectShow mod and at the wrong size.
Here is the scenrio - you load up a DV file that should be at 720x480 but it loads up as 360x240. What I did not notice at first is that it was using the DirectShow import module. Suggestion from Mark at MC was to try moving the AVI Import mod up, so I did and that solved the problem, or so I thought. I started to notice something else - if I loaded up a file that was rendered in Vegas with the 2-3-3-2 pulldown it used the DirectShow module. But more interesting was that I could load up another file rendered the same way and it would load fine. Than I noticed the run time - one was about 3 minutes and one was about 14 minutes. So than I thought is was file size related.
So I disabled the DirectShow import module and than any Vegas rendered file using the pulldown returns an error of "No Video Data found". Ah - the plot thickens! So now I try to load up a full render of about 65 minutes - same error. So it must the size of the file right? Wrong because I load up the same project but rendered with the MainConcept codec, not the Vegas one - run time is still about 65 minutes - and it loads perfect using the "DV Import (Type1 and raw)" mod.
So my deduction at this point is it might have something to do with the headers that Vegas writes to long files? Mark thinks it might be some directShow filter setting telling DV files to decode at a lower resolution. But if so I can't find it plus this seems to only happen with Vegas rendered files that run longer than 9 minutes 57(ish) seconds with pulldown. (See below)
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P.S - I followed a path here - DV Rendered file in AE with MC_DV opens fine. 5 minute run time, fine. 9 minute run time fine. 9 min 57 sec fine. 9 minute 59 and over is iffy...rendered with MainConcpet DV codec it opens but with deafult Vegas codec, no. I take the same files but re-rendered in Vegas with the pulldown - 5 minute fine. 9 minute fine. 10 minute - problems. Opens with DirectShow at 360x240. So anything with pulldown rendered in Vegas that is over 9 minutes has the error. Anything not rendered with MainConcept DV codec opens with DirectShow.
Anyone here have ideas or the same problem? 1.4.1 did *not* have this issue. I know because I took the full Vegas render with 2-3 pulldown and it worked with no issues. Now the same file will only load using the DirectShow mod and at the wrong size.