Wrong event displays in Video track

dcraig wrote on 1/31/2003, 8:00 PM
I am trying to cut the commercials out of a one hour recording from TV. It is in an MPEG1 format for VCD made by Hauppauge PVR 250. The clip plays fine in Windows Media Player. When I load it into VideoFactory the events in the Video track are displayed fine until about 45 minutes into the clip. They are all the same still after than. Moving the slider to a time after that displays a black screen in the preview window. Playing from a time past that either gives audio only or slowly changing stills.
The PC has a defragged ATA66 drive with 20Gb available. It is a 1 Ghz Athelon processor and 384 Mb ram running Windows ME.
Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 1/31/2003, 10:34 PM
It sounds like the file may be corrupt. If you have LOTS of hard drive space like a 100 GB or so, and you're running NTFS, you could try to open the file in VirtualDub a free apllication (excellent everyone should have it, suplements Vegas and VF nicely) then make a AVI, then open that in VF and make your MPEG from it.

If you don't want to go trough all that, you could try to zoom way in, and just snip a few of the 'black' frame out and you may get past the corrupted part that way, if that's what the problem is. Just a guess. I run into that kind of poblem once in awhile and that cures is. Worth a try.

dcraig wrote on 2/1/2003, 9:53 AM
Thanks for the reply. This is happening on two different one hour clips. I also tried using ripple edits to cut the commercials from the front, render the file, and then try again with the new clip. The clips play fine in Windows Media player, front to back. I will try converting it to AVI but that seems to be a pain to have to do that with every clip.

Again Thanks
Rvat wrote on 2/1/2003, 6:52 PM
Small consolation but I have the same problem with smaller MPEG2 files created with a Dazzle 150. Some of them just will not process beyond a certain point. Converting to AVI, then using the AVI clip does work, but 6 minutes of MPEG2 takes 20 minutes to convert on my 2.4 Ghz box and creates a 1.3 gig file.

There are other notes in the forum reporting the same problem.

Rob
ralphied wrote on 2/1/2003, 10:53 PM
VF does not work well with files that are non-DV AVI. Using MPEG files as original video on the timeline is going to result in intermittent, unexplained problems especially when you start trimming and cutting out footage. That's just the reality of VF.