Incomplete video import

erikd wrote on 8/12/2008, 3:22 AM

I am importing several large AVIs that range in size from 2gb up to 4gb. When I put the clips on the timeline they play fine up until a little over 1 minute into the clip and then video drops to black. Are there size limitations on a single video clip being imported into Vegas 8b? Any ideas as to why they all drop to black but the black continues for the amount of time that the clip was supposed to originally play back for?

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blink3times wrote on 8/12/2008, 5:35 AM

I doubt there is a size issue.... I've had fully uncompressed 1 terabyte AVI's on the time line without the issues you mention. It runs a little sluggish with uncompressed but that's about the only problem.

farss wrote on 8/12/2008, 5:51 AM

Most likely a corrupted or incomplete file. I've seen something like this before, not a Vegas problem in my case, I new the file was trash before I opened it.
Where did these problem files come from?

erikd wrote on 8/12/2008, 6:07 AM

These are files that I copied over on my local network from my old editing system. They are uncompressed 720x486 8 bit AVIs that were captured using my Targa 3000 board with my Discreet Edit 6.5 system. The files are not corrupt as they play flawlessly on the Edit 6.5 system. G-spot utility sees them as "UYVY (packed 4:2:2)" with a status of "no codec required".

Having said that, I notice that the files will not play back at all in Windows Media Player version 9.

Simonm wrote on 8/12/2008, 6:28 AM

Media player 9 doesn't appear to be very good at all.

You probably know that PAL DV isn't square pixels (1.096:1 in theory, but it depends). PAL DV AVIs are NOT rendered properly in MP9, but as if they should be square pixels, even though GSpot identifies them correctly, and 720x576 is obviously 5:4 not 4:3!

But Micro$oft are always right, so it must be me (again).

erikd wrote on 8/12/2008, 6:44 AM

I should have mentioned that these are all NTSC files and do show up as square pixel in G-spot.