Vid Preview Goes Black

Jaums wrote on 2/20/2010, 8:23 AM
Using V 9c. Preview window intermittently goes black. All intermittent:
1. preview is black when first opening Vegas and click play, after playing for several seconds the picture appears.
2. sometimes can go black during a transition.
3. sometimes goes black after minimizing to go get a media file or something--Restore and the preview window is black, click Play and it play or may do nothing.
4. fool around clicking various things, dragging the edit line, clicking various places in the timeline and sometimes it will come back. sometimes closing & reopening Vegas seems to be the only way to restore it. Sometimes a re-boot on the computer is needed to restore it.

I'm seeing others are having crashing and other problems with 9c and are finding that going back to b helps. Where can I get b? Stupidly I deleted it, if I ever had it. I may have gone from the 9 disc to 9c--don't remember.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Jaums

Comments

Marc S wrote on 2/20/2010, 11:07 AM
Jaums,

Are you using firewire preview? I have this problem all the time when previewing out of firewire. It happens with HDV and DV. I need to do some tests to figure out if it is a Vegas 9 or Windows 7 problem. I never used to have this issue.

Marc
Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/20/2010, 12:54 PM
Hello Jaums,

It might help us help you more if you updated your system specs in your profile. That could tell us whether the system specs have any bearing on the problems you are seeing.

I have been using Vegas since v3, now on 9c, and have never seen the problem you describe. I have three systems of varying specs, all of which run Vegas.

Tom
Jaums wrote on 2/20/2010, 2:44 PM
Profile is up to date. Preview screen is a HD TV connected via HDMI to the NVidea. I drag the preview to the TV. The preview window is there--you can see the frame of the window, but the video image area is black.