Soft Edge Border Causing Problems

jimingo wrote on 1/23/2005, 10:51 AM
I have a jpeg on the timeline that lasts about 9 seconds. When I apply the soft edge border effect to the jpeg, it puts the soft edge on my picture, but it also causes the picture to blink. What I mean is, a couple of frames dissapear. For example, the picture should last from frames 786-1063 on my timeline, but the picture dissapears at 889 and 1060 for no apparant reason. I thought that maybe this was just a playback issue, so I rendered to an mpeg2 and when the render got to frame 889, an error message came up saying that an error occured and the reason could not be determined. The only way to fix this problem was to take off the border. This isn't the first time this happened to me. Is anyone familiar with this issue and know how to fix it? I have Vegas 4.0e and already tried re-installing it.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 1/23/2005, 11:22 AM
Was the picture already at length when you applied the Border? Or did you apply the border, have more than one keyframe in the border setting, and then stretch the picture's length? Do you see any divots in the jpeg's thumbnail on the timeline indicating that it's a looping event?
How large is the jpeg? How much memory do you have allocated? None of this should have mattered in the render, but more information is helpful.
Is the border applied to the jpeg or to the entire track?
jimingo wrote on 1/23/2005, 12:00 PM
Border is applied to the jpeg. Jpeg size is 1581 by 2313 (I know that's huge but I work with huge jpegs all the time, some much lager than this). I did not keyframe the border and I adjusted the size after appling the border. (Although I did keyframe the pan and crop). There are no notches in the picture and the picture is looped. I'm also almost definate that this is not a memory issue because if it's a memory problem, it would say in the error report. I have a gig of ram though.
B_JM wrote on 1/23/2005, 12:05 PM
funny you should mention that , because last night i was applying a soft border to a jpeg and a avi at the end of a 35 minute HD piece.. and it would not work, all that would show up is the hard edge white border ....


i had to reboot and then it worked ...

this computer i was working on only has 512 memory though -- i was think that may part of the problem ..


jimingo wrote on 1/23/2005, 12:08 PM
rebooting usually solves these wierd problems for me too, but it didn't solve mine this time