Video Clips on Timeline turn red

Virshia wrote on 1/17/2008, 8:35 PM

Recently I have been working on a project and have experienced no problems at all. However, after reopening my project the video clips at the end the timeline turn red, when I try to click any where on the program it crashes and sends me back to the desktop. Sometimes it says not enough memory, and sometimes it doesn't. What doesn't make sense is that I've opened the project before and played it without it crashing. However after trying to render it the video clips at the end of the video turned red. I'm using compressed AVI files that have been turned into Windows Media video by the windows media encoder. I am also using an MP3 file that has been converted using iTunes, wmv files have never caused me trouble.
My specs:

Case: Digital Storm Twister LITE (Black Aluminum Edition)
Power Supply: 550W Thermaltake (SLI Compatible) (Silent PurePower Edition)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz (1066MHz Front Side Bus) (4MB Cache)
Motherboard: nVidia 680i LT Core 2 Quad (By: eVGA) (nForce 680i SLI)
Memory: 2GB DDR2 Corsair at 800MHz XMS2 (Dual Channel) (Extreme-Performance)
Floppy / Media: Sony 1.44MB Floppy (Black Edition)
Hard Drive 1: 250GB Western Digital (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)
Hard Drive 2: - No Thanks
Raid Option: - No Thanks
Optical Drive 1: DVD-ROM/CD-ROM (DVD Reader 16x / CD Reader 40x)
Optical Drive 2: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 18x / CD-Writer 48x)
Network Card: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
Modem: - No Thanks
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 320MB (By: eVGA) (PCI-Express)
TV Tuner: - No Thanks
Sound Card: Motherboard Multi-Channel High Definition Audio (7.1 Channel)
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home (Includes Service Pack 2)

Can anyone help me?

Comments

laz wrote on 1/19/2008, 2:25 AM

I don't know if this is the problem but ITunes IMHO is not the best converter for MP3. You may want to try Super http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

Virshia wrote on 1/19/2008, 8:37 AM

Ok thank you!
Yea I have no idea whats going on either, never seen my video clips turn red!

Chienworks wrote on 1/19/2008, 9:04 AM

Is it sorta more pinkish than red? That's a sign that you've slide the audio apart from the video and they're not lined up anymore.

Virshia wrote on 1/19/2008, 9:12 AM

Its red.
What happens is I start the program, then I click open and open up the project.
So far its only 3 minutes long, with a 8 minute song. As the video clips get loaded across the timeline, the clips at the end of the 3 minutes turn bright red, then if I click anywhere on the timeline, the program crashes and sends me back to the desktop. This doesn't make any sense to me I've e-mailed Sony support I hope they can help me!

Chienworks wrote on 1/19/2008, 11:15 AM

Oooh, as in solid red, not just red tint behind the frames. That means that Vegas isn't able to interpret the data in the file. You probably don't have whatever codec that file uses installed.

Virshia wrote on 1/19/2008, 5:46 PM

All the video clips in the film use the same codec all were compressed with Windows Media encoder. I did a test and made a new project, then I selected the clips that were turning red (they change sometimes) and they went up on the timeline with out a problem.
Whats even weirder is that I just got done opening the file with no problems at all. Then I reopened the project and I got the red again...maybe this is a bug?