Last week I rendered-out a client's project using Vegas 11 595. This was not the final edit but a chance for the client to see our preliminary ideas. Today the client reported that brief flashes of black appear in one of the scenes. I checked my copy of the files, and sure-enough, Vegas 11 595 rendered portions of my Blackmagic M-JPEG clips to black - but this time I did not catch them as they were very small - the longest was about 2 seconds and some were fractions of a second...
One of my complaints with V10e was that Vegas would sometimes render 3rd party clips to black, like Cineform or Blackmagic M-JPEG. (I hear the problem is worse with still images...) However, the thing about 10e was that the black portion was always large-enough to detect. If I cut the offending clip into smaller sections, closed & reopened Vegas, I could usually get it to render-out correctly. VERY annoying, but I never sent a project to a client that had missing (black) footage....
So I am back to using earlier versions of Vegas. To date Vegas 8c is 100% reliable - no black clips. Vegas 9c 64 is also fairly reliable but 9e and 10e consistenly render to black. I have multiple OS images and have tried booting to a drive with ONLY Vegas installed (plus the latest Blackmagic & Cineform codecs - nothing else...)
So here we go again...
One of my complaints with V10e was that Vegas would sometimes render 3rd party clips to black, like Cineform or Blackmagic M-JPEG. (I hear the problem is worse with still images...) However, the thing about 10e was that the black portion was always large-enough to detect. If I cut the offending clip into smaller sections, closed & reopened Vegas, I could usually get it to render-out correctly. VERY annoying, but I never sent a project to a client that had missing (black) footage....
So I am back to using earlier versions of Vegas. To date Vegas 8c is 100% reliable - no black clips. Vegas 9c 64 is also fairly reliable but 9e and 10e consistenly render to black. I have multiple OS images and have tried booting to a drive with ONLY Vegas installed (plus the latest Blackmagic & Cineform codecs - nothing else...)
So here we go again...