Photos in Video

roxylee wrote on 8/12/2010, 11:26 AM
I am attempting to insert still jpg photos into a home movie. All of the jpgs are from the same photo shoot (a wedding). Some of the photos show up on playback and some don't. Also, the ones that do show up disappear when I move them around on the timeline. I have two photos side by side which show up fine, but when I nudge one so it overlaps the next one (for fade in fade out), they both playback as solid black. What am I missing about adding still photos to an exisiting video project????

Frustrated,
roxylee

Comments

ChipGallo wrote on 8/12/2010, 11:32 AM
I resize mine in a photo editing application so they are not huge in dimension or file size. If you are going to pan around in the photo, make it large enough to do that but don't put really big photos on there. That is all I can think of.
roxylee wrote on 8/12/2010, 11:34 AM
thank you for the reply, can you define "big" or better yet, what size should I be staying with to make it "safe" for vegas
rs170a wrote on 8/12/2010, 11:51 AM
Unless you're doing deep zooms, the usual recommendation is to make your photos 2X your project size.
IrfanView is a great and free app that has batch resizing amongst its many capabilities.

Mike
Guy S. wrote on 8/12/2010, 1:15 PM
What version of Vegas are you using?

What OS?

What is the resolution of your images?

In the past I used to downsample my images as another user suggested below. I have found that with Vegas 8.1 and 9.0 (both 64-bit) there is no need; I have zero issues with 12MP images.

Guy
R0cky wrote on 8/12/2010, 2:24 PM
Many people here have found that converting jpg to png improves vegas' ability to handle larger photos. Fewer red thumbnails, preview problems, and crashes. Using the 64bit Vegas with plenty of memory also makes a huge difference.

Rocky
MTuggy wrote on 8/12/2010, 9:48 PM
I used to have the same problem but the lasted version of Vegas 9 completely eliminated it. I don't have t resize at all anymore, even 12 MP images work just fine.

Mike
Birk Binnard wrote on 8/13/2010, 9:22 AM
I've always had a mix of stills & videos in my Vegas work. When I was using VMS9 (I do not have Pro) I found that Eugenia's comment that Vegas has memory leaks which get triggered with large JPG files was true.

Many of my JPGs are panoramas that can reach well over 100MB in size. What I did in VMS9 was resize them so their vertical pixel count was the same as the vertical pixel count of my AVCHD video input (1080 in my case.) Doing this seemed to solve the problem. I typically do pans/zooms on the JPGs as well as just include them as-is. My guess is that the resizing meant Vegas did not have to do any interpolation itself to fit the JPG into the final video output format.

The good news is that when VMS upgraded to V10 this problem disappeared. I no longer have to resize my panoramas and VMS10 handle them full size just fine - even the really big ones. Hopefully Pro will get this same improvement soon.
Earl_J wrote on 8/21/2010, 10:33 AM
I just yesterday began to experience this phenomenon in my Vegas 9.0c 64-bit package.
One of the other forum posts indicated that 9.0d 64-bit solved that user's problem ...
I decided to give it a try ... and while I was at it, I jumped to 9.0e 64-bit as well.
I opened the project that gave me the problem under 9.0c 64-bit ... the problem is gone. All the jpg images that were red are now showing very well, thankyouverymuch ...

And thanks to Sony as well for fixing the problem in subsequent releases. . .

Until that time ... Earl J.