Black-out happening in converted video

Paulito wrote on 11/14/2010, 5:55 PM
Sometimes when I'm taking an hour long avi file (that I dl off the web), and rendering it as a another video format file (wiether it's another avi or wmv) the picture every now and then cuts to black (you still hear the audio of the video) and cuts back to the normal video. Sometimes it's for a whole 2 seconds, sometimes 5 seconds.

A better way to describe it, it is as if you put a second of a black jpeg and put it on the track above the video track. that is what it looks like.

I never know when it's going to happen after the video is converted. How do I prevent it?

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Byron K wrote on 11/15/2010, 10:02 AM
Are you downloading the video and dropping it right into Vegas? I usually like to re-encode many videos from people I get home videos from to a friendly format that works consistently in Vegas.

Here are a few conversion programs that do conversions:
-Super
-Media Coder
-Format Factory
-MPEG Streamclip

-Byron
Eugenia wrote on 11/15/2010, 3:08 PM
Yes, this is a well known problem with some AVI codecs and Vegas, and I have seen the bug with both Cineform and XViD decoders on Vegas, both while editing and exporting. Some times, this results to crashes during editing too. The culprit is a corruption inside Vegas, when dealing with some specific AVI codecs that are parallel-installed, via VfW. In Cineform's case, I had to uninstall the Matrox AVI codec, as this was the one interfering. In XViD's case, it can be any other, including one of the codecs that come with Vegas and you won't be as lucky uninstalling.

So for XViD AVI, I'd suggest to uninstall ALL third party AVI codecs that you might have installed via codec packages, and only re-install the official XViD decoder. If that doesn't work, you must transcode the file before you edit it, in an intermediate format, like Cineform MOV or AVI, AViD DNxHD MOV, or Matrox AVI (but don't have installed both Cineform and Matrox codecs at the same time).