PIP Windows all scrambled

Dean-Calin wrote on 6/13/2020, 4:15 PM

Vegas 15 build 147, I believe. Windows 10 with an HP i5 with 16GB RAM. I have been editing a music video with five PIP windows. As four of the five windows were shot with a cell phone I had them arranged across the middle of the screen with our logo in the background. I created an MP4 and all seemed fine. Our music director wanted me to tweak some volumes in the last 30 seconds of the video. When I opened the .vf project file I found 3 of the 5 PIPs moved and resized. I went back to earlier saves and all of the PIPs are identically moved and resized - as if something changed with the program itself. Since each track is spliced multiple times to synchronize the timing between all five singers I would have to reposition these PIPs hundreds of times, which is just not practical. Do I have to start all over or is there some way to move all of the sections of the PIP track simultaneously? It would help to know what "broke" that the PIPs throughout every save changed, or what changed in the program that it is interpreting the positioning differently after the rending to an .MP4.

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vkmast wrote on 6/14/2020, 3:41 AM

Not aware of any Vegas 15 build 147. The first VEGAS Pro 15 release was build 177. But as you're mentioning ".vf project file", you must have Movie Studio (Platinum) 15. Please confirm if that's correct and your thread will be moved to the relevant MS forum.

The links to the last updates of your software are here, sections 3 and 4.

@Dean-Calin

Dean-Calin wrote on 6/14/2020, 10:00 AM

You are correct: Vegas Movie Studio 15 Suite.

matthias-krutz wrote on 6/15/2020, 1:20 AM

I have noticed that PiP sometimes has a problem with interlaced projects that disappears when the project properties are set to proportional.

EricLNZ wrote on 6/15/2020, 2:48 AM

Luckily I've not encountered problems with PIP and source interlaced material but @matthias-krutz what do you mean by "the project properties are set to proportional"?

EricLNZ wrote on 6/15/2020, 2:50 AM

@Dean-Calin Have you changed the project properties at all? In particular the image size.

matthias-krutz wrote on 6/15/2020, 7:35 AM

@EricLNZ Sorry, I meant progressive, of course. It is not clear what triggers this error. However, it disappears when the project settings are set to progressive.

Dean-Calin wrote on 6/15/2020, 3:05 PM

I discovered the problem. I noticed that ALL of my saves of the video appeared scrambled - which made no sense! Then I saw, in a different forum, someone with a similar problem. In another video that I was editing I was exploring the split screen feature, as I had two videos of one of our concerts that I wanted to use together. I never turned off the split-screen button in the video preview window! When I went back to view my five-PIP-windowed video a second instance of each of the five-PIPs were stacked over one another in the right-hand side of the screen. I clicked off the split-screen button and my view was instantly normal again.! I've been using Vegas Movie Studio products since 2004 but I never used that feature! Shame on me!