Out of Phase colour issues

silliusmillius53 wrote on 9/11/2012, 1:26 AM
I apologise if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find any information. I source on Panasonic P2 (1080i) and use DV film plug-in to get it into Vegas Pro 11. Using a wide camera as a base source and CU camera as cut a ways on 2 video lines, I place the WSelow and cut away the unsuable stuff on the CU. To make the cameras match better, I sometimes adjust levels. (Usually just gamma). The system has started giving me what I can only describe as "out of phase" flash frames. (In the bad old days we sometimes had phasing issues with material.)

I have just shot a piece of industrial theatre and this is particularly problematic.I render to Sony *.MXF as a final product and then make BluRay discs in DVD Architect. At the moment, as a last resort after editing this, I am rendering both source lines as *.MXF files and seeing if cutting these (rather than the original material) will solve the problem.

The problem has cropped up previously when I am constructing in-supermarket adverts using Photoshop images, but it usually corrects if I re-render the material. (Since they are only 30 seconds long it's not much of an issue.) Does anyone have any suggestions before I decide to jump off a bridge ? (As an afternote, I live in an area where the bridges are all very short, so jumping off them would be an extreme act of desparation as I would land up in the local hospital, which would guaratnee a very long and painful demise!).

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musicvid10 wrote on 9/11/2012, 12:22 PM

Full P2 support is promised in Vegas Pro 12

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro12cs
farss wrote on 9/11/2012, 7:41 PM
Your problem sounds like one I've also noted, first in V10 / 64 but never in V10 / 32.
For some reason Vegas returns a frame of absolute black instead of the correct frame of video. This seems independant of the codec as I've never had P2 footage to deal with and I've seen it.

Reducing the RAM Preview buffer to a very low value or zero seems to cure the problem. Alternatively using the 32bit version of Vegas might also cure the problem.

Bob.
Grazie wrote on 9/12/2012, 12:58 AM
Alternatively using the 32bit version of Vegas might also cure the problem.

No, that will only avoid the issues in 64bit. If one is needing to use 64bit, going to 32bit is at best a field dressing.

Grazie