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Snake Doctor · 06-19-2003, 01:50 AM

Any Vegas gurus out there willing to give me some advice?

I'm trying to chop up clips for a gallery. My source file is a wmv 366kbps.

I import it to vegas, slide the timer to which part I want, trim it, and then render it as a new clip.
I've been doing it this way for quite some time.

On this particular video however, my new clips end up looking like they were shot in a disco. I keep getting these black flashes on the screen during the whole clip.

Has this ever happened to you before? And how did you fix it?

RedShoe · 06-19-2003, 02:02 AM

Black flashes? Never heard of that before. But have you done the standard diagnosis?

Ram, CPU speed, Free space, compression settings all check out ok?

could it be the source file? Perhaps there aren't enough frames, or to many frames during it's original compression? Perhaps you are in the highest mode setting during playback.

Are there black flashes as you are watching it in a WMV player?
Are there black flashes as you watch it in VV playback window?

Snake Doctor · 06-19-2003, 02:08 AM

Its weird. When I watch the playback in VV as its rendering, I'll get the black screen for a few seconds here and there, but the rest of the vid looks fine.

When I play back the file in windows media player, that's when it looks like a disco

MrMonkeyFingers · 06-19-2003, 11:49 AM

I have to agree with RedShoe, are your drives 7200 rpm, also.. what do your raw files look like? do they flash as well, are they .avi, .mpeg??? What kind of file are you trying to render it out to, if you try a different kind of file do you still get the same thing? Drop me an ICQ if you'd like

MattO · 06-19-2003, 12:02 PM

Might help to defrag and clean yer drive up for maximum performance

chaffer · 06-19-2003, 12:17 PM

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Originally posted by Lenny2
Any Vegas gurus out there willing to give me some advice?

I'm trying to chop up clips for a gallery. My source file is a wmv 366kbps.

I import it to vegas, slide the timer to which part I want, trim it, and then render it as a new clip.
I've been doing it this way for quite some time.

On this particular video however, my new clips end up looking like they were shot in a disco. I keep getting these black flashes on the screen during the whole clip.

Has this ever happened to you before? And how did you fix it?

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Snake Doctor · 06-19-2003, 04:22 PM

Hmmmm...I have a 7200rpm western digital drive, P4 2 ghz, 512MB of RAM.
The source file doesn't "flash" when I play it in windows media, only the clips that I render in vegas do that.

I've never worked with this sponsors content before, so maybe its something funny with the way they encode their wmv's?

06-19-2003, 01:50 AM	#1
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06-19-2003, 02:02 AM	#2
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06-19-2003, 02:08 AM	#3
Snake Doctor I'm Lenny2 Bitch Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: On top of my soapbox Posts: 13,449	Its weird. When I watch the playback in VV as its rendering, I'll get the black screen for a few seconds here and there, but the rest of the vid looks fine. When I play back the file in windows media player, that's when it looks like a disco __________________ sig too big

06-19-2003, 11:49 AM	#4
MrMonkeyFingers Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Stockton, CA Posts: 473	I have to agree with RedShoe, are your drives 7200 rpm, also.. what do your raw files look like? do they flash as well, are they .avi, .mpeg??? What kind of file are you trying to render it out to, if you try a different kind of file do you still get the same thing? Drop me an ICQ if you'd like __________________ Greg Trooper [email protected] ICQ#132173082 I'm from the 4th Kingdom, the Kingdom of Plastics!

06-19-2003, 04:22 PM	#7
Snake Doctor I'm Lenny2 Bitch Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: On top of my soapbox Posts: 13,449	Hmmmm...I have a 7200rpm western digital drive, P4 2 ghz, 512MB of RAM. The source file doesn't "flash" when I play it in windows media, only the clips that I render in vegas do that. I've never worked with this sponsors content before, so maybe its something funny with the way they encode their wmv's? __________________ sig too big

06-19-2003, 12:02 PM	#5
MattO The O is for Oohhh Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: AUSTIN TEJAS Posts: 10,861	Might help to defrag and clean yer drive up for maximum performance