Video displays black in V6

FMP wrote on 7/13/2005, 2:43 PM
Loaded an animation I rendered in After Effects into V6. It was rendered in the quicktime animation codec at best settings.
The whole video displays black when viewing in Vegas 6 either in the preview window or external monitor. Sound works and the thumbnails in the timeline display correctly.
If I try and render the video out of vegas to any other format I get only a black screen for the duration of the clip, but sound is OK.
The same clip displays fine in Vegas4 and quicktime.

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randygo wrote on 7/13/2005, 3:38 PM

I'm no video expert, but when I was trying out Vegas video features I experienced a problem with a clip being black similar to what you describe.

The only thing I could determine was that the clip was at a higher framerate than the project setting. In my case the clip was set to 30fps and the project was set to 29.97fps.

This rather surprised me as I expected Vegas to be able to transparently downshift the framerate but instead it rendered the clip as black.

I posed the question on this forum but never received a reply.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 7/13/2005, 4:04 PM
Try viewing the clip with the preview monitor window quality set to "Preview" or "Draft".

I had this exact same issue... and that was my "experience" with it. In other words it would display fine in Preview or Draft but when you set the preview quality to Good or Best (and when you render at Good or Best) you would get black frames.

The solution was actually with the version of quicktime I had installed. I upgraded... and it all worked properly (irrespective of which quality setting).

Here is a link to my prior post about this.
FMP wrote on 7/14/2005, 10:23 AM
I had already tried all these these both of you suggested. I'm thinking maybe it is the Quicktime version 7 I am running.I thought I had seen a post about needing the pro version of 7 to clear upsome bugginess.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 7/14/2005, 10:56 AM
Not the pro version... you just need to make sure you have installed the "authoring components". Run the quicktime installer and you should be able to either check it is installed and/or install it if it is not.