Video Clips Glitching - PLEASE HELP!

Nightsong wrote on 11/3/2015, 5:00 PM
(Accidentally posted this to the Vegas Pro forum, sorry!)

I edit with Movie Studio Platinum 13.0.

Recently, when editing, the clips I am using will glitch. (The colors will flash and go wild, the screen will pixelate and freeze, the clip will go completely black, or sometimes the audio clip disappears.)

The clips are all .avi and the codec is MPEG-4 Visual (XviD)

The clips usually, but not always, begin to glitch during the transitions. Sometimes the glitch will go away, but then return again, often worse.

I have tried everything-- matching media video settings, turning off GPU acceleration, restarting Vegas multiple times, prerendering loads of times, putting the preview settings to the lowest possible quality, but the glitches still remain, even after rendering. The glitches are not in the original video file. When zooming in on the clips and going through it frame by frame, the glitch still remains. Even replacing the files does not work.

I assume it has something to do with the video codec? The files are quite large, around 350 MB, but I've edited with files of that size and they haven't been a problem. Only these clips.

So if it does have to do with the codec, which (free) codec would you recommend for the smoothest Vegas editing?

Please help me out, this has been bugging me for quite some time now! Thanks! :)

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/3/2015, 7:30 PM
Xvid and Divx are considered delivery formats, not editing formats. And, in fact, they can give a lot of video editors trouble.

What model of camcorder did you get this video from?

There is certainly a better format and codec if you plan to edit your video, but how you get that format and codec depends on the source of your video.

It could well be, for instance, that you're trying to edit video that was ripped from YouTube -- but the software that ripped it thought you just wanted to watch, not edit your video.
Nightsong wrote on 11/3/2015, 7:54 PM
That makes sense--the videos are not from a camcorder, but episodes of a TV show downloaded online. Is there any format and codec you would recommend?
MSmart wrote on 11/3/2015, 8:50 PM
Do a Search on this forum (link above topic) for 'xvid' and change the date range to "Any Date' and read what others have posted. It's a good learning experience.
Nightsong wrote on 11/15/2015, 3:02 PM
Thanks for your help everyone! I've been able to convert all of the videos into a better format and editing is now much smoother. I appreciate all of your advice!