Red Screen Error

Skull1 wrote on 5/18/2010, 5:39 AM

I've gotten this error a few times before, but now it's worse and some videos are just covered with red..

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p28/Leztotia/document.jpg

I wonder if it has anything to do with my computer or if it's the program? I have a quite old computer so it wouldn't surprise me if that's the problem. I tried a new type of file a few days ago and it worked just fine, so I tried again with the same file type yesterday but with a different clip, and its almost all red. So clearly it's not the file type that is the problem...

So I was wondering if any of you know how to fix this? or if it's even possible? :p
I can barely get any work done right now because only a few of my clips work..

I'm guessing I'm not the only one with this problem, so I hope someone can help :)

Comments

ushere wrote on 5/18/2010, 5:54 AM

computer specs?

vegas version?

what format files on tl?

the more detail, the more someone might be able to help.....

not meant as a flame to your first post ;-)

Skull1 wrote on 5/18/2010, 6:36 AM

No worries, and I tend to forget things like that so I'm not surprised :P
It's Vegas Pro 8,0 on XP Home..
This has happened to all the files I've tried.. I use AVI mostly though. the last one I tried was VOB.AVI

rmack350 wrote on 5/18/2010, 8:02 AM

AVI is a wrapper and can contain a variety of encodings. Same with .MOV. Same with MXF.

Generally, I think a red frame is a sign that Vegas can't read the frame. Helpful, huh? This can happen for a variety of reasons, like file corruption, image dimensions too big, memory errors, not enough memory, too many of that specific file type on the timeline, etc.

Maybe you could try making the project template match the media, or you could fiddle with the preview RAM. Try settings of zero, 16MB, 128MB, and 256 MB. Anything greater than that probably isn't going to help but you could try it. Setting it too high will cause problems and starve Vegas for operating RAM.

Rob Mack

rs170a wrote on 5/18/2010, 8:10 AM

The only time I've ever had a red frame is when I try to bring in a still image that's too large (such as 8,000 x 12,000 pixels) for Vegas to handle.

Mike

CClub wrote on 5/18/2010, 8:50 AM

I was using mostly avi's and getting many red frames with version 8 and even up through 9c. 9d removed the red frames but added the slow opening veg issue. Now with 9e, I don't have any red frames and the slow opening veg issue is gone. I don't know if there's a way around it without upgrading to version 9.