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farss wrote on 12/18/2004, 7:59 PM
Perhaps you should explain this a bit better, I know a little about PCs and I don't understand the question. Maybe you and they know more than me in which case excuse my ignorance.
Bob.
JJKizak wrote on 12/19/2004, 6:01 AM
Size on hardrive---512, 1024, 248, 4096 etc.

JJK
farss wrote on 12/19/2004, 6:06 AM
Ah,
you mean cluster size?
Vegas knows nothing about it. In general though for video as they're large files go for larger sizes. This reduces fragmentation at the expense of optimum usage of disk space.
Bob.
JJKizak wrote on 12/19/2004, 6:16 AM
Thanks. I was kind of wondering if this had anything to do with my black frame problems. All of my drives are in 512.

JJK
je@on wrote on 12/19/2004, 9:56 AM
In my experience, the most common cause of "black frames" is one clip not butted against the other. In other words, a small (1 frame) of space between clips.
John_Cline wrote on 12/19/2004, 10:20 AM
If we're talking about NTFS then 512 seems awfully small, particularly if you're working with large video files. There is nothing to be gained from having such small clusters. Personally, I leave it at the default 4096.

John
biggles wrote on 12/19/2004, 5:52 PM
Quote:"In my experience, the most common cause of "black frames" is one clip not butted against the other. In other words, a small (1 frame) of space between clips."

I agree with this as it is my experience too. The best way to catch this is to either expand the timeline and/or scrub through the whole video at about half speed.