Video offset unless zooming

Brian-Simpson wrote on 11/23/2024, 9:52 PM

Hello. I'm using Vegas Pro 20. When I open a project with various MP4 clips, the clips look "out of sync" at the initial view. It's only when I zoom in several hundred percent that they line up correctly.

So, in sum: I open a project, a clip on an upper lower looks like it overhangs a clip on a lower level. I try to slide it properly, and the project plays terribly. If I zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom in, I can see the clips in the proper positions.

My question is, why don't the clips appear properly aligned when I open the project at "see everything" view. Why do I have to zoom in to an unusable level in order to see them properly aligned?

Many thanks in advance for any replies and advice.

PS: Yes, I know I am behind a couple of versions. This shouldn't be an issue in any version, so I hope the advice isn't "upgrade and subscribe."

Thank you again.

Comments

RogerS wrote on 11/23/2024, 10:23 PM

Can you share screenshots of exactly what you are seeing? It's hard to follow from the description. Is the issue that the cursor and the frame aren't aligned? Is it a performance issue?

Can you provide MediaInfo for the specific media showing the problem? https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

What GPU do you have?

EricLNZ wrote on 11/24/2024, 2:46 AM

@Brian-Simpson I wonder if you are talking about the timeline thumbnails not aligning?

Brian-Simpson wrote on 11/24/2024, 12:51 PM

Hi folks, thank you for the replies. I apologize, I am strictly an amateur and I don't know the proper names for the various Vegas features.

I'm trying to figure out how to use MediaInfo, but in the meantime here are a couple of screen shots.

The first shows how a project looks when I first open it. The track on top of the main track is supposed to replace footage underneath it, and you can see that they are not lined up properly. The new track (according to the screen image) would start playing before it should.

However, if I zoom in a lot--

--you can now see that the upper clip starts playing several frames after the clip beneath.

So I'm not sure what's going on here, or how to cure it. I'd like to be able to see the clips line up the way they were placed, rather than offset either too much or two little.

For the record, my PC specs are Windows 10 22h2
32 Gigs of RAM
Nvidia GeForce GT 710 2 gigs of RAM
over 400 gigs free space on HD

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

EricLNZ wrote on 11/24/2024, 2:47 PM

Zoom in so you can see the offset. Then move the top clip to where you want it. If you find moving it precisely with your mouse difficult use your numeric keypad. Select the clip and use 1 and 3 to move it by one frame at a time.

Brian-Simpson wrote on 11/24/2024, 4:40 PM

The thing is, I have moved the clip to where I want it, and it plays correctly. But when I open up Vegas again, the same offset is seen. I'm sure it's not the clip, but the way Vegas displays it. As if Vegas has a standard "frame size" when it displays the content of clips in the timeline, and those "preview frames" push what's actually in the video out of the way. (The video clips are not some odd size, but 1920 x 1080.)

I realize I'm not making sense again, but I'm not sure how to explain it.

The large clip is a rendering of several smaller clips to make editing and moving simpler. I'm not sure how Vegas renders the imagery in the timeline, but I think if I could change that it would fix the issue. Maybe.

Again, thank you.