Repairing bad frames or dropped frames

Mar_sell wrote on 6/11/2002, 3:01 AM

Hello all.

Video is still a very strange thing to me. If anybody cares to explain, can I know what is the best way to get rid of them or repair them and this without affecting the lenght of a video chunk?

So far, the best way I found was to make a "patch" by covering the bad section with a black background, this way Vegas won't lose its video sync. But I get a black screen (of course). I would not mind seeing a little distorsion with a steady stream.

It seems I use the same way as I would to repair old jeans... There must be a more professional way, right?

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 6/11/2002, 2:09 PM

You don't have to settle for black frames, which spoils the continuity of your video. Try this instead. Assumes you have video and audio. Insert a break (Edit- split) on either side of the black frames on the video track. Delete (right click on Event, then pick delete). Now move your cursor over either of the event edges on the left or right where the grap was and while holding down the Ctrl key drag into the empty space once occupied by black frames until it butts to the other good event. The speed will be slightly slower for this "bridge" , but if the gap is only a few frames or so you'll hardly notice and you should maintain synch with your audio.

If you have multiple events to the right, remember to use 'select events to end' (right click on first rightmost event so everything moves together.

FuTz wrote on 6/12/2002, 8:47 AM

I did exactly the same with those grey "mosaic-glitches" (wich usually come with a bonus audio track: scrrrtch!). Worked perfectly.
If you really are a maniac of precision, you can later zoom in the timeline tracks to maximum so you can perfectly align the audio and video OR come back with the original lenght if it's got to be...