Preview Messed Up

Bloodshot_pico wrote on 7/21/2019, 5:44 PM

Hello, so recently I started a new project within Vegas 15 and well I was using draft full for the preview to save me some CPU power as I was editing. However after rendering and then messing about with the preview to be good quality I found out that I've somehow got the project moved down to the bottom right of the frame and I'm confused as to why.

I've tried using the event pan and crop tool to move it to see if that would help, to no avail it's already in the center and when I try moving it to the bottom right the black lines still do not move at all but the project itself does. Was wondering if there is any way to fix this at all?

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Thanks for the help.

~Jordan

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john_dennis wrote on 7/21/2019, 7:10 PM

Did you change a Track Motion setting?

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Bloodshot_pico wrote on 7/21/2019, 7:15 PM

Thank you for the help and no I never touched the track motion setting at all.

Just tested moving it and they're still there.

fr0sty wrote on 7/21/2019, 8:07 PM

Just to make sure nothing got out of whack with track motion somehow, open it, right click on it, and select "restore box". do the same with event pan and crop. Then click the bypass fx button in the preview window to make sure you don't have some PiP effect messing things up. After that, check and make sure that "scale video to preview window" is selected when you right click on the preview.

Also, is this happening only in the preview, or is it also in your renders?

john_dennis wrote on 7/21/2019, 8:13 PM

Please post a complete view of the Preview panel to include the settings.

Don't make us old guys wait for network redirection. We don't have enough time left for that sort of nonsense.

Bloodshot_pico wrote on 7/21/2019, 8:40 PM

Just to make sure nothing got out of whack with track motion somehow, open it, right click on it, and select "restore box". do the same with event pan and crop. Then click the bypass fx button in the preview window to make sure you don't have some PiP effect messing things up. After that, check and make sure that "scale video to preview window" is selected when you right click on the preview.

Also, is this happening only in the preview, or is it also in your renders?

I've just tried these and not any of them at all not entirely sure what's going on for some reason I'm thinking it was the preview thing that's messed it up and yes they look the same in the good quality preview and the renders.

Bloodshot_pico wrote on 7/21/2019, 8:41 PM

Please post a complete view of the Preview panel to include the settings.

Don't make us old guys wait for network redirection. We don't have enough time left for that sort of nonsense.

Here you are kind sir.

ram17 wrote on 7/21/2019, 8:52 PM

Have you tried to play your file in a video player? Maybe the black bars on your left & top part are included in the video itself, if you didn't mess with pan/crop nor track motion.

ram17 wrote on 7/21/2019, 8:56 PM

Please post your project settings & screenshot of your timeline for us to see.

Former user wrote on 7/21/2019, 8:58 PM

Right click on preview screen and select 'Scale..." or something like that. I think since you have it at FULL it is too big for your screen.

Bloodshot_pico wrote on 7/21/2019, 9:15 PM

Right click on preview screen and select 'Scale..." or something like that. I think since you have it at FULL it is too big for your screen.

Got this already. :p

Bloodshot_pico wrote on 7/21/2019, 9:17 PM

Have you tried to play your file in a video player? Maybe the black bars on your left & top part are included in the video itself, if you didn't mess with pan/crop nor track motion.

Yeah the file by itself is completely fine.

Please post your project settings & screenshot of your timeline for us to see.

fr0sty wrote on 7/22/2019, 1:18 AM

First of all, is your source footage 10 bit or higher? If it's 8 bit (which it most likely is), don't waste performance on running in 32 bit mode, you gain nothing from it and the playback performance is way worse. Second, you have your project set to be interlaced, which you probably do not want to be doing, especially if the source video is progressive scan. Right click on your video and select properties in Vegas, make note of the resolution, frame rate, if it's progressive scan or interlaced, if it is interlaced, which field order goes first, etc... then make sure your project settings match that. Or, when you drop new media on the timeline and Vegas asks if you want to set your project settings to match the media properties, select "yes".

As for the preview window, if the above doesn't help that any, try to disable GPU acceleration in settings and see if that has any effect on it. If not, swap your video file out with a piece of generated media (like a solid color or color bars), save the project file, and upload it here so we can download it and take a look.