VP13 - Imported MPEG-2 has black picture

Curt wrote on 7/31/2014, 8:28 PM
Got an MPEG-2 video that was encoded elsewhere. Plays fine in Windows Media Player, but when I import it into Vegas the picture is gone. There's a video track but it's completely black. Sound is normal.

Did a similar operation using Vegas 10 about a month ago from the same source and that was fine.

Thoughts?

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musicvid10 wrote on 7/31/2014, 8:49 PM
Yes, post the complete file properties using MediaInfo.
That's a free download from Sourceforge.
Curt wrote on 8/1/2014, 8:26 PM
Sorry for the delay in responding. Had several fires to put out today.

Anyway, here's the info you requested....

CompleteName : F:\Video\curt.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
FileSize/String : 3.62 GiB
Duration/String : 1h 1mn
OverallBitRate/String : 8 371 Kbps

Video
ID/String : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format_Version : Version 2
Format_Profile : High@Main
Format_Settings_BVOP/String : No
Format_Settings_Matrix/String : Default
Format_Settings_GOP : N=6
Duration/String : 1h 1mn
BitRate/String : 8 000 Kbps
Width/String : 720 pixels
Height/String : 485 pixels
DisplayAspectRatio/String : 4:3
FrameRate/String : 29.970 fps
ColorSpace : YUV
ChromaSubsampling : 4:2:0
BitDepth/String : 8 bits
ScanType/String : Interlaced
ScanOrder/String : Bottom Field First
Compression_Mode/String : Lossy
Bits-(Pixel*Frame) : 0.764
TimeCode_FirstFrame : 00:00:00:00
TimeCode_Source : Group of pictures header
StreamSize/String : 3.44 GiB (95%)

Audio
ID/String : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format_Version : Version 1
Format_Profile : Layer 2
Duration/String : 1h 1mn
BitRate_Mode/String : Constant
BitRate/String : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)/String : 2 channels
SamplingRate/String : 48.0 KHz
Compression_Mode/String : Lossy
StreamSize/String : 113 MiB (3%)
musicvid10 wrote on 8/1/2014, 9:02 PM
Nothing unusual about your file, except 485 vertical?

It may turn out to be an op error, either in the trimmer or split screen settings?

If you care to post an original clip somewhere, we can certainly test on our own systems.
john_dennis wrote on 8/1/2014, 9:12 PM
"[I]Width/String : 720 pixels
Height/String : 485 pixels[/I]"

Pixel dimensions look a little hokey. I rendered out of Vegas 11 trying to match those properties and Vegas would only render to an even number, 486. The result did open in Vegas, though.

Un-scientific Wild Guess. Have you tried running the video through VideoReDo Quickstream Fix?