Sony Vegas 11 - Video colour problem

Nuclairs wrote on 3/6/2017, 8:10 AM

Hello everyone, I registrered in the forum to see if you people could solve a problem that has arose on my Sony Vegas 11 recently:

 

I have a youtube channel where I upload videos about bad driving in my city, footage captured by my dashcam (Adventure Car AR-720p) that has given me no problems at all... until recently... when I select the footage on Vegas, it appears as a mix of desaturation and 3D image...

http://i.imgur.com/aldc3Iy.png

 

I haven´t done anything at all to make this happen, and the footage from the camera is perfectly fine (tested with several media programs and everything is fine), it´s just when I use it on Vegas that screws up for some reason!

 

I´ll appreciate any help that comes in handy!

Comments

Cornico wrote on 3/6/2017, 8:27 AM

 it´s just when I use it on Vegas that screws up for some reason!

Do we have to guess how you use it on Vegas or do you provide us with some information, such as properties footage, projectsettings, screenshot of the UI when you see it, etc.

 

NickHope wrote on 3/6/2017, 9:45 AM

That looks typical of some of the problems from footage in section 1 of this post. See section 10 of that post for how best to get help.

Nuclairs wrote on 3/6/2017, 10:12 AM

http://i.imgur.com/Q47cbWa.png

 

http://i.imgur.com/xp9AyHq.png

 

http://i.imgur.com/e4fcNAT.png

 

These are the only options I´ve touched ever since I use Vegas, and they´ve remained the same for a long time...

 

...although I´ve discovered something weird... the format of my dashcam videos are .avi, but by using a video converter and transforming into .mp4 makes the video return to normal, without that colour glitch.

And here´s the media info from the footage I showed you:

 

General
Complete name                            : C:\Users\*name*\Desktop\Le car videos\1 (5).avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 121 MiB
Duration                                 : 1 min 0 s
Overall bit rate                         : 16.9 Mb/s

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : JPEG
Codec ID                                 : MJPG
Duration                                 : 1 min 0 s
Bit rate                                 : 16.6 Mb/s
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 30.000 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:2
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.600
Stream size                              : 119 MiB (98%)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 1 min 0 s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 256 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 16.2 kHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 1.85 MiB (2%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 1000  ms (30.00 video frames)
 

 

 

NickHope wrote on 3/6/2017, 12:12 PM
...although I´ve discovered something weird... the format of my dashcam videos are .avi, but by using a video converter and transforming into .mp4 makes the video return to normal, without that colour glitch.

That doesn't surprise me. Which video converter did you use? And what is the brand of your dashcam?

Nuclairs wrote on 3/6/2017, 1:04 PM

I´ve used "Any Video Converter" for the video convertion, and the brand of my dashcam is "carblackbox", although I bought it from a spanish company called "cdpsa"

 

https://www.cdpsa.eu/shop/es/273-camara-para-vehiculo-dashcam-adventure-car-ar-720p4-hd.html

john_dennis wrote on 3/6/2017, 1:48 PM

From the Properties of the camera video on the timeline. Is your video being processed by Vegas something like this? Did you load a separate MJPEG codec?

Streams
  Video: 00:03:03.533, 15.000 fps, 1024x768x24, Sony Motion JPEG
  Audio: 00:03:03.533, 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Mono, Uncompressed

Plug-In
  Name: aviplug.dll
  Folder: C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 11.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\aviplug
  Format: Video for Windows
  Version: Version 11.0 (Build 701) 64-bit
  Company: Sony Creative Software Inc.

Nuclairs wrote on 3/6/2017, 3:12 PM

This is what I got:

 

Streams
  Video: 00:01:00,000, 30,000 fps, 1280x720x24, D3DGear High Performance Decoder
  Audio: 00:01:00,000, 16.160 Hz; 16 Bit; Mono, Uncompressed

 

Plug-In
  Name: aviplug.dll
  Folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Vegas Pro 11.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\aviplug
  Format: Video for Windows
  Version: Version 11.0 (Build 510)
  Company: Sony Creative Software Inc.

john_dennis wrote on 3/6/2017, 4:12 PM

Should your dash camera video be decoded by your video streaming software, D3Dgear?

Nuclairs wrote on 3/7/2017, 3:29 AM

idk how to do that, to be honest.

NickHope wrote on 3/7/2017, 4:28 AM

You need to disable the D3DGear codec to get Vegas' native codec to decode the file instead. Apart from simply uninstalling D3DGear, you could disabling it by renaming or moving the .dll file then rebooting. Or perhaps one of these tools could do it.

Nuclairs wrote on 3/8/2017, 4:08 AM

Well, by uninstalling the D3DGear thing, my clips have gone back to normal!

 

Thanks Nick, and everyone else for your support! ;)