When I right click my clips on the timeline to edit in effects, the clip goes grey and once im done with effects I close it and the clip on the timeline stays grey and is black screen in the preview window.
My Timeline with grey clips
What it says when I open effects on a new clip
When I try to open effects after closing effects on another clip that I edited
Any help would be great, thank you
@David-Flouty You'll get more response if you post your images here on the forum rather than to an external site. The Upload button is to the left of the smiley face on the toolbar above the message writing area.
Alternatively, if you switch from Vegas to Effects for processing, then in Vegas you should not do anything with the stack that was transferred to the Effects. Process it there first, then save it. Only then return to Vegas and the processed clip will be updated. Also, in such a case, you need to enable this, otherwise Vegas will capture the file and will not allow it to be processed in Effects. I'm sorry for my English.
Alternatively, if you switch from Vegas to Effects for processing, then in Vegas you should not do anything with the stack that was transferred to the Effects. Process it there first, then save it. Only then return to Vegas and the processed clip will be updated. Also, in such a case, you need to enable this, otherwise Vegas will capture the file and will not allow it to be processed in Effects. I'm sorry for my English.
I always save effects before going back to vegas, but for some reason its still not working. I tried what you mention in the screenshot but still nothing.... ):
Alternatively, if you switch from Vegas to Effects for processing, then in Vegas you should not do anything with the stack that was transferred to the Effects. Process it there first, then save it. Only then return to Vegas and the processed clip will be updated. Also, in such a case, you need to enable this, otherwise Vegas will capture the file and will not allow it to be processed in Effects. I'm sorry for my English.
Also when I checked the properties of the clip in the timeline, the file says .vegfx. But on the other non effects clips it says .mp4. Not sure if that helps with any solution or not.
I'll take a wild guess and suggest that your media is from a GoPro camera (the file name starts with 'GX...') and is .MP4 (HEVC) - or H.265. I get the same results with HEVC GoPro video in Vegas Pro and Vegas Effects as you have.
In Vegas Effects, do you get a yellow/black explanation mark icon against the media as per the following image?
If yes, clicking the 'cog wheel' icon opens a window pointing out that HEVC is an unsupported format in Vegas Effects (as it is in HitFlim Pro from which VE is derived) but an HEVC video extension can be purchased from the Microsoft Store (its only a dollar or so depending on your country's currency). I have not made that purchase so I can't attest to the success of purchasing the extension.
An alternative is to transcode the H.265 video to H.264 (.MP4 AVC) via a free transcoder such as Handbrake or Shutter Encoder or simply by rendering to AVC in Vegas Pro. The transcoded H.264 video will then open in Vegas Effects.
H.265 is a newer video format than H.264 and and applies much more compression to the video than does H.264 thus resulting in smaller file sizes.
I'll take a wild guess and suggest that your media is from a GoPro camera (the file name starts with 'GX...') and is .MP4 (HEVC) - or H.265. I get the same results with HEVC GoPro video in Vegas Pro and Vegas Effects as you have.
In Vegas Effects, do you get a yellow/black explanation mark icon against the media as per the following image?
If yes, clicking the 'cog wheel' icon opens a window pointing out that HEVC is an unsupported format in Vegas Effects (as it is in HitFlim Pro from which VE is derived) but an HEVC video extension can be purchased from the Microsoft Store (its only a dollar or so depending on your country's currency). I have not made that purchase so I can't attest to the success of purchasing the extension.
An alternative is to transcode the H.265 video to H.264 (.MP4 AVC) via a free transcoder such as Handbrake or Shutter Encoder or simply by rendering to AVC in Vegas Pro. The transcoded H.264 video will then open in Vegas Effects.
H.265 is a newer video format than H.264 and and applies much more compression to the video than does H.264 thus resulting in smaller file sizes.
Looks all good on my end. No errors or codec isssues
I'll take a wild guess and suggest that your media is from a GoPro camera (the file name starts with 'GX...') and is .MP4 (HEVC) - or H.265. I get the same results with HEVC GoPro video in Vegas Pro and Vegas Effects as you have.
In Vegas Effects, do you get a yellow/black explanation mark icon against the media as per the following image?
If yes, clicking the 'cog wheel' icon opens a window pointing out that HEVC is an unsupported format in Vegas Effects (as it is in HitFlim Pro from which VE is derived) but an HEVC video extension can be purchased from the Microsoft Store (its only a dollar or so depending on your country's currency). I have not made that purchase so I can't attest to the success of purchasing the extension.
An alternative is to transcode the H.265 video to H.264 (.MP4 AVC) via a free transcoder such as Handbrake or Shutter Encoder or simply by rendering to AVC in Vegas Pro. The transcoded H.264 video will then open in Vegas Effects.
H.265 is a newer video format than H.264 and and applies much more compression to the video than does H.264 thus resulting in smaller file sizes.
Looks all good on my end. No errors or codec isssues
Just to confirm the main issue is still here, just effects does not show the error with the codec you showed me,
The Media Properties show your file is HEVC/H265 but you are not getting the error code which presumably means you already have the HEVC codec installed.
A few posts back you mentioned "when I checked the properties of the clip in the timeline, the file says .vegfx." I suspect this file is a Vegas Effects project file that you saved and not an image file. After you have processed your image in Effects exactly how are you saving?
The Media Properties show your file is HEVC/H265 but you are not getting the error code which presumably means you already have the HEVC codec installed.
A few posts back you mentioned "when I checked the properties of the clip in the timeline, the file says .vegfx." I suspect this file is a Vegas Effects project file that you saved and not an image file. After you have processed your image in Effects exactly how are you saving?
I just hit cntr s and close the tab. As I always did before and never had issues till now