showing effects where there are none.HELP PLEASE!

fideliorok wrote on 6/16/2015, 2:00 AM

i have worked on a full length film project for the past 3 years. I busted my butt on it. Now I am putting all the footage together in a workprint and color correcting. I want the color correcting to look how I adjust it....it was working fine. All of a sudden, some of the clips seems to have added glow effects and grainy effects and color correcting where there is none listed and it keeps showing it on many clips. not only ones that are later in the workprint, but earlier clips that were fine just a couple of days ago are now all messed up looking with added effects that totally destroy the quality.
When I copied the clips and put them to a new job, it returns to its normal self.
I assumed this meant there is too much on one workprint, but at the same time, some of the clips are fine and others look so messed up that I can't properly tell. I don't know where to start and where to end or how long the workprint can be...but I figured the picture would retain the way I set it with effects and color correction.
I wonder if I selected something that makes this happen? I don't know. I just want to lay out my workprint and correct it.
this is where it gets weird. before I did color correcting, I laid out most of my workprint and it was fine, and I was able to save ALL of it to a big file. it worked perfect.. Now that I am adding color correcting, it is aLL getting messed up!
I am freaking out! This is supposed to be finishing the project. I haven't even added the frame by frame cgi yet!
it is very VERY heavily edited project, lots and lots of editing..
The movie is about 2 and hours long so far, HD and widescreen.
However, it is so edited I am not sure how I could divide it up without losing consistency. I wanted the whole thing on a workprint and this should be do-able. PLEASE ADVISE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE and be detailed. this is so greek for me.
I am so freaking out. BTW, I am on an imac, but I love sony vegas (or I have before this) so I partitioned my harddrive and am editing the video on the windows side. yes, I used windows xp cause I have had the computer for 5 years. PLEASE HELP 911!!!!!
p.s. my camera is a sony nex vg 20. the program came with it so I know it is limited and I can divide it up if need be but I need to know how small the files need to be. I also can't afford to buy anymore cause I went broke making this so far. I just want to finish it and this is SO stressful. HELP!

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musicvid10 wrote on 6/16/2015, 6:35 AM

Effects can occur at four places:
Event level
Track level
Preview (output)
Project Media level

If an effect is added to a project media, it will show up every time that media shows up on the timeline.
I certainly hope you are saving incremental project backups every hour or two, so you can revert if you need to.
As far as Vegas doing something on its own, I doubt it; it would have been reported by now if it was.

fideliorok wrote on 6/17/2015, 1:05 AM

first of all. let me thank you for that and I will check this out. I have been teaching myself about all of this as I go along on this project.
I am not sure that it is it though, as I am not even really sure what you mean entirely cause this seems like it is imposing on media without being added...kind of like the way something simple like windows movie maker if you have a big bunch of editing and one video on the timeline is set to lots of slowmo, sometimes the next video adapts that slow mo without you selecting it at all and it is hard to get it to stop doing it since the effect doesn't even show up in the effects list for the second clip. with something this massive, I thought it might be possible even though sony vegas is such a good program and wmm is something elementary.
Thank you for responding and I will work on it all night tonight, but it is freaking me out and I appreciate the advice. THANK YOU.

musicvid10 wrote on 6/17/2015, 6:53 AM

Again, if Vegas did what you are suggesting you would not be the only person to report this.
You, not Vegas, added some effects at one or more of the levels I listed, and now you can't find them, or you've created subclips with effects already applied.
I suggest you look at the Project Media (that is a specific place!), or post some screenshots of the timeline. It should be simple for an experienced user to spot.

You should save incremental projects early and often; this goes double since you're just learning.
Best of luck.

MSmart wrote on 6/17/2015, 11:42 AM

So your Sony cam produces AVCHD files, what version of Movie Studio are you using?

Are you working with two projects? The workprint project and one with the FX added?

You may have to open two instances of Movie Studio and copy your project to a new project in the other instance as your project may have some corruption.

As musicvid suggested, do a Save As frequently so that you have a fallback project file should one get corrupted.

Markk655 wrote on 6/17/2015, 8:07 PM

+1 to musicvid's suggestion or posting a screen shot. A quick look at the timeline and preview window will show whether you added an FX somewhere unintended.