you tube videos

GrammiePammie wrote on 1/6/2009, 9:35 AM

Is there a reason why many YouTube videos appear to be breaking up (in green squares) when placed in the Sony timeline? When the videos are downloaded using a couple of different programs, they play fine outside of Sony.

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/6/2009, 11:33 AM

When downloading from YouTube, a lot of information is lost. Vegas plays the files frame per frame and will show these losses. Media players kind of compensate for this los.
My advice: when downloading from youtube for editing, convert to the avi format.

Eugenia wrote on 1/6/2009, 12:22 PM

The internet is digital, so there is no information loss during the transmission. If this guy gets green pixels with a particular editor or player it's because either the decoder or the encoder were buggy.

GrammiePammie wrote on 1/7/2009, 4:10 AM

I'm in an educational environment where all my computers are the same . . . this is happening on several computers with videos the students download. Do you have a suggestion as to an "encoder" or "decoder" that I can download to eliminate this in Sony?

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/7/2009, 5:08 AM

I'm a teacher myself. In the past , I've had my students download youtube movies from National Geographic and had them add subtitles with Windows Movie Maker. First I used www.mediaconverter.org to download the movies in the wmv format, but very soon problems started. Then I had them download the same movie in the avi format, and the crashes stopped. Perhaps my experience is helpful to you. (We don't have Vegas at our school, though.)

stavrosmusic wrote on 1/8/2009, 9:31 AM

for some reason when I upload to youtube the quality drops significantly whether I upload an avi mp4 or mpeg 1 file. If I hit the high quality button the video stops and starts too often. I have a vegas 7.0 - suggetion?

FredK wrote on 1/8/2009, 10:19 AM

Try uploading your videos to www.vimeo.com instead of youtube just to compare quality. It might just be that the quality on youtube stinks, which it does, unless it's in HD. The quality for standard def on Vimeo is much better.