For nearly two weeks I have been trying to burn to Blu-ray disc a 20 minute 3D video (side-by-side full) in Vegas 10d. I have done this with another project of about the same length with only minor problems. However, this project has been nothing but trouble.
The clips were all shot with the Sony HDR-TD10. The project has no effects other than a single Sony Levels effect with a small gamma adjustment at the track level. All transitions are simple cross dissolves of 1 second duration. All of the 5.1 sound has been removed and replaced with a stereo music track.
During the first ten attempts to burn to Blu-ray disc from the timeline, the "rendering video" phase would simply cease at some apparently arbitrary point. Task manager would show Vegas still running, but my cpu usage dropped from 90-100% to <10% and frames were not increasing in the Preview Window of Vegas. I would have to force quit Vegas 10d, reboot, and try again. The same thing (rendering suddenly ceasing with no error messages but never at the same point in the project) happened time and time again at various durations into the "rendering video" phase.
I finally decided to start over and re-edit the entire project. Today I was thrilled to get an iso image created and from that I burned a Blu-ray DVD. However, when I play that back on my Sony 3D Blu-ray player feeding my Sony VPL-VW90ES projector, some 4-5 of the 50 or so clips in the project play back with an apparent loss of left-right eye synchronization so that the entire clip is flashing wildly and almost unwatchable. Note that this phenomenon is not only seen in 3D on my Sony projector but is also found when I play the Blu-ray disc that I have created back in PowerDVD as a 2D image.
The flashing and loss of synchronization of right and left eye images is confined to single clips in the project. The moment the action moves to the next clip, it stabilizes and is beautiful until another instance of a clip producing this behavior is encountered. In total about 5 clips our of the total of 50 or so clips in the project show this behavior.
Has anyone else using Vegas 10d to edit clips from the Sony HDR-TD10 seen this peculiar behavior? Do you have any idea what is causing it?
I have reviewed the clips showing this behavior by playing them back on the Vegas timeline, and I can not see a single thing wrong with them. I have even examined them closely in anaglyph mode in the Vegas Preview window and I can see no problems. I can see nothing that distinguishes the clips showing this behavior from all the other clips that don't show the behavior.
The only thing that I know to do is to re-burn the project to recreate the iso image and hope that the weird loss of synchronization on certain clips does not repeat itself. If that still shows the problem, then I guess I shall just have to try burning portions of the project to a Blu-ray iso image while fiddling with the clips that show the weird behavior until by serendipity I solve the problem or just give up.
I would appreciate hearing if any of you have encountered this problem in your 3D editing in Vegas 10d and I would especially appreciate hearing any suggestions for solving the problem.
I am running Vegas 10d under Windows 7 SP1 Professional 64-bit (with all Windows updates) on an 8-core 2.8 GHz machine with 12 GB of RAM. The media drive is a dedicated SATA 1 TB HD and the iso file is being created on the C: drive which is also a 1 TB SATA HD. The video card is an nVidia GTX285 with the latest nVidia driver for windows 7 64 bit.
Tom
The clips were all shot with the Sony HDR-TD10. The project has no effects other than a single Sony Levels effect with a small gamma adjustment at the track level. All transitions are simple cross dissolves of 1 second duration. All of the 5.1 sound has been removed and replaced with a stereo music track.
During the first ten attempts to burn to Blu-ray disc from the timeline, the "rendering video" phase would simply cease at some apparently arbitrary point. Task manager would show Vegas still running, but my cpu usage dropped from 90-100% to <10% and frames were not increasing in the Preview Window of Vegas. I would have to force quit Vegas 10d, reboot, and try again. The same thing (rendering suddenly ceasing with no error messages but never at the same point in the project) happened time and time again at various durations into the "rendering video" phase.
I finally decided to start over and re-edit the entire project. Today I was thrilled to get an iso image created and from that I burned a Blu-ray DVD. However, when I play that back on my Sony 3D Blu-ray player feeding my Sony VPL-VW90ES projector, some 4-5 of the 50 or so clips in the project play back with an apparent loss of left-right eye synchronization so that the entire clip is flashing wildly and almost unwatchable. Note that this phenomenon is not only seen in 3D on my Sony projector but is also found when I play the Blu-ray disc that I have created back in PowerDVD as a 2D image.
The flashing and loss of synchronization of right and left eye images is confined to single clips in the project. The moment the action moves to the next clip, it stabilizes and is beautiful until another instance of a clip producing this behavior is encountered. In total about 5 clips our of the total of 50 or so clips in the project show this behavior.
Has anyone else using Vegas 10d to edit clips from the Sony HDR-TD10 seen this peculiar behavior? Do you have any idea what is causing it?
I have reviewed the clips showing this behavior by playing them back on the Vegas timeline, and I can not see a single thing wrong with them. I have even examined them closely in anaglyph mode in the Vegas Preview window and I can see no problems. I can see nothing that distinguishes the clips showing this behavior from all the other clips that don't show the behavior.
The only thing that I know to do is to re-burn the project to recreate the iso image and hope that the weird loss of synchronization on certain clips does not repeat itself. If that still shows the problem, then I guess I shall just have to try burning portions of the project to a Blu-ray iso image while fiddling with the clips that show the weird behavior until by serendipity I solve the problem or just give up.
I would appreciate hearing if any of you have encountered this problem in your 3D editing in Vegas 10d and I would especially appreciate hearing any suggestions for solving the problem.
I am running Vegas 10d under Windows 7 SP1 Professional 64-bit (with all Windows updates) on an 8-core 2.8 GHz machine with 12 GB of RAM. The media drive is a dedicated SATA 1 TB HD and the iso file is being created on the C: drive which is also a 1 TB SATA HD. The video card is an nVidia GTX285 with the latest nVidia driver for windows 7 64 bit.
Tom