Video Breaks up in Timeline

Flicko.s in Cary wrote on 6/23/2010, 1:11 PM
I have a customer who brought me their hard-drive camcorder and wants me to burns DVDs from their content. Its a Panasonic SD camera that creates .mod files. They play fine on the timeline most of the time...but every now and then I get digital blockiness in the playback image.

If I playback the file in windows media player it plays smoothly...it only breaks up in Vegas 9's timeline. And the breakup always occurs in the same spot.

Any idea what could be causing it? I have about eight hours of DVDs to render....

Comments

kkolbo wrote on 6/23/2010, 1:42 PM

Since it is always in the same spot, have you tried a quick render of a few seconds in that area to see if it is a preview issue or a processing issue?

KK
Flicko.s in Cary wrote on 6/23/2010, 1:56 PM
yes it comes out in the render...
kkolbo wrote on 6/23/2010, 2:01 PM
Does that mean it is blocky in the render or it comes out and is fine in the render?

If it is blocky in the render always in the same place, but you say it is fine when played in another player, I would take and go to the place in the other player and take it frame by frame to confirm that the other player is not just masking it.

Let me know what you see.
Flicko.s in Cary wrote on 6/23/2010, 2:42 PM
Sorry I'm not being clear. The newly rendered video clip also includes the blocky patch.

Just to review...I copied the mod files from the camera to the computer. If I play the suspect mod file in windows media player or on the VLC player...it plays fine.

Drop the file into Vegas 9 and the blockiness shows up when the timeline is played and in the newly rendered video.

Your question about playing it in the player slowly gave me an idea. Indeed if I play the original mod file in the player it looks fine. Seeing that mod files are really mpg files...I dropped the suspect file into DVD Architect.

It played fine in architect!

Maybe I can bypass Vegas and build these compilations in Architect?
kkolbo wrote on 6/23/2010, 3:04 PM
If you do not need to edit them, then dropping them into DVDA would save you time and steps.
Flicko.s in Cary wrote on 6/23/2010, 3:08 PM
But Architect doesn't recognize the audio.

I don't need to edit them..just string the clips together and burn a DVD....there has to be an easier way to do this...
kkolbo wrote on 6/23/2010, 3:18 PM
Have you tried changing the file extension from .mod to MPG since you say they are mpeg files?

If I could get one of the or the bad part I could try to troubleshoot what is going on here.

Do you have the model of the camera? If you do you could search the forums for possible prior discussion.

Flicko.s in Cary wrote on 6/23/2010, 6:36 PM
I tried changing the extension to mpg....did not help.

I have a little 10 second clip I can send if you'd like to look at it...where should I send it?

Gary
Former user wrote on 6/23/2010, 6:54 PM
Put the video on the Vegas timeline and render the audio out to an AC3 template.

Then you can select that audio in DVDA using the original video.

Dave T2