Vegas Video Help
 

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?

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?

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

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

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

Talk to simonf at drunkdollars

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?