This is a weird one and will stop me from using Vegas until it is resolved. I am running Vegas v4.0b.
I have an animation that is 20 seconds long. This particular clip was generated with After Effects as an uncompressed 29.970 interlaced AVI. I place it on the timeline in Vegas and step through it and at exactly 2 seconds 28 frames into the clip, it will repeat that frame for one frame and then continue. The frames at 2:28 and 2:29 are identical. After Effects, Premiere, Virtual Dub and Avid XpressDV DO NOT exhibit this problem when viewing or playing this file. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the clip, the frame rate, dimensions and the field dominance are set correctly, something in Vegas is causing this.
It doesn't matter where I place the clip on the timeline in Vegas or if I trim the head, it will occur at exactly 2:28 into the actual clip. I went back and discovered that it doesn't just happen on this one particular clip. I have a lot of other animations that I have generated in various programs and they ALL exhibit this problem and ONLY in Vegas. If I step through it on the timeline or render it out to a file, Vegas places the repeated frame in the file and it will stutter for a frame when playing the Vegas-generated DV file in anything else.
I just got back from visiting several of my friends who are also running Vegas and the problem happens on their machines as well. This appears to be a subtle, yet serious, bug in Vegas.
Curiously, the duplicated frame does not seem to occur on captured clips.
John
I have an animation that is 20 seconds long. This particular clip was generated with After Effects as an uncompressed 29.970 interlaced AVI. I place it on the timeline in Vegas and step through it and at exactly 2 seconds 28 frames into the clip, it will repeat that frame for one frame and then continue. The frames at 2:28 and 2:29 are identical. After Effects, Premiere, Virtual Dub and Avid XpressDV DO NOT exhibit this problem when viewing or playing this file. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the clip, the frame rate, dimensions and the field dominance are set correctly, something in Vegas is causing this.
It doesn't matter where I place the clip on the timeline in Vegas or if I trim the head, it will occur at exactly 2:28 into the actual clip. I went back and discovered that it doesn't just happen on this one particular clip. I have a lot of other animations that I have generated in various programs and they ALL exhibit this problem and ONLY in Vegas. If I step through it on the timeline or render it out to a file, Vegas places the repeated frame in the file and it will stutter for a frame when playing the Vegas-generated DV file in anything else.
I just got back from visiting several of my friends who are also running Vegas and the problem happens on their machines as well. This appears to be a subtle, yet serious, bug in Vegas.
Curiously, the duplicated frame does not seem to occur on captured clips.
John