Clips in timeline have turned redish pink?

Hogwild wrote on 9/23/2010, 12:55 PM

Hi all, hoping someone can help. I'm running VMS10(trial) and am editing a project that has all HDV 1440x1080 clips. I proceeded to get about half way through, and I've done something to make all of the remaining clips turn light red or pink in the timeline. I'm not sure what I've done. As far as editing, all I have on the timeline is a video track, video overlay and audio. The overlay is for a PIP effect with the timeclock ocassionally (project is a football game). I have been trimming each clip and adding a cross dissolve between clips (plays) to shorten up the game, & nothing else.

Is there a way to post pics on this forum? If so, how? I have a screenshot that might help.

Also, I was hoping to render the timeline out as a single file and open it up in a new project so I can white balance a single clip opposed to each one of the 87 clips. I thought I read somewhere about exporting a project as a .veg file or something? I couldn't find that as a file extension in the "render as" option. I used to be able to do this in Avid Liquid - I believe it was called it "fuse"ing. With this, there was no compression or quality loss.

I hope I've explained thing clearly. Thanks for any advice!

Mark

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Chienworks wrote on 9/23/2010, 1:05 PM

The pink color indicates that you have audio & video out of sync with each other. This can happen easily if you enable the "ignore event grouping" button. It's the button that looks like a padlock holding two strips of film together. You want this disabled pretty much all the time except when you want to move the audio & video separately from each other. You can fix it by enabling the ignore button and then sliding the audio or the video left or right until the pink goes away. You might also have an automatic resync function available. Right-mouse-button click on one of the pink clips and choose "Synchronize" from the popup menu. This is available in the Pro version but might not be in the Studio versions.

Vegas Studio doesn't support nesting of .veg files. You can render the whole project to a new file and then start a new project with that new file. However, for your purposes it's not necessary. There is a video effects chain icon above the preview window. Any video effects added there will affect the entire project. You can also add them in the track header to affect everything on that track, so that you can correct each track separately from the others.

Check out the "sticky" thread about the new markup for forum posts for instructions on posting pictures.

Hogwild wrote on 9/23/2010, 1:35 PM

Thanks Cheinworks, you hit the nail on the head. I did have audio out of sync and the synchronize option was available. I chose to synchronize "by moving" and waaalaaahh, no more pink clips. Thanks!!

Also, I must've read about nesting in the Pro forum and got confused.

I just tried white balancing at the track level and that's really what I was looking for > works great. I should have read more about all of the functions of the software, but I've found myself diving in & doing rough cuts of these games and found Vegas to be quite intuitive. I gave up on Avid Liquid a while back and bought VMS9PlatinumPro, but wanted to try 10 mainly because it had the stabilization feature, support for 10 video tracks, and yes, even because of the darker UI. So far I'm liking 10.

Thanks again!

Mark

scottiejhaines wrote on 12/10/2018, 4:27 PM

Many years later, for anyone who happens to be searching for this... There is a way around this feature if you do a lot of video un-syncing on purpose, like me, and don't want to deal with the red tint. Follow these instructions:

In the menu bar, go to Options > [Hold Shift +] Preferences > Internal (Tab)

Search for "Sync"

Change the value of "Event Sync Tint" to "0".

Press "OK"

I only suggest doing this mod if your work requires you to do a lot of un-syncing. I don't recommend doing this if this isn't a regular practice for you. Another option would be to choose another color or tint level that is more suitable to your preference but still provides some sort of alert.

Scott