Red Thumbnails and even stranger in V9

PeterWright wrote on 7/16/2009, 11:22 PM

(I'm just back online after a week "in the wilderness" whilst they've been upgrading my Broadband ... felt like I had no arms for a day or so, but I must admit I've been getting a lot more done than usual!)

One job I'm doing using a client's own AVCHD footage has been doing some strange things - frequent red thumbnails - preview usually normal but thumbnails turning red - not just the AVCHD events - even Vegas' own Generated Media did it a few times.

Strangest of all was the appearance of a previously used pan-cropped event, turned into negative, upside down and repeated as a "stripe" right across the frame. This disappeared when I muted the Generated Media (Colour Gradient) track - it was as if the pic had become "embedded" in the Generated Media. I'll try and put a screen grab in, but I haven't done this for a while, so if it doesn't appear, I'll edit until I get it right! >:

I'm pretty sure it's all got something to do with memory management, as a reboot almost always puts things back to normal.

I've not had these red thumnails in EX1 HD projects, so I would guess it's either something to do with AVCHD or the amount of memory it uses.

Not a major problem - just wondered if anyone else had had this particular oddity.

Peter

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ritsmer wrote on 7/16/2009, 11:48 PM

Had/have the red thumbnails here too - also in AVCHD and even in Vegas self generated media too.
At festive occations Vegas crashes when trying to preview such a "red" media.
Have sent a support ticket some 6-7 weeks ago.
Waiting for 9.0a and using 8.0c so far.

farss wrote on 7/17/2009, 1:57 AM

"I've not had these red thumnails in EX1 HD projects, "
pretty much my experience too. Vanilla EX no problems. Anything else and V9 goes into the twilight zone.

Most troubling problem I'm seeing on a short but FX heavy project is an almost terminal slowdown in preview fps the longer I have V9 running. It gets down to many seconds per frame. If I restart V9 and playback from the same point on the T/L I get 25fps....for a while.

Your negative frame could occur if you're doing a composite and Vegas fails to decode a frame from one of the layers in the comp. I've had this happen and it had me scratching my head for a while.

Bob.