Black video frame

bamboozler wrote on 9/1/2013, 12:37 PM
Hi,
I get a black frame of video every so often in each project I edit with footage from my new Nikon camera. This seems to happen around every 1 minute or so. I'm running Vegas Movie Studio HD 11.0 Build 75. on Windows 8 64 Bit.

This has not been a problem from my other previous cameras and have had the program about a year or so. The clip straight from the camera is fine, but it shows a black frame in Vegas, even in the program monitor when playing it on the timeline. Yesterday it did this on a video and when I rendered it, the black frame was gone. HOWEVER, today on another video, it did this not only inside the program on the monitor, but when I rendered it as well.

Here's the videos to show you what I'm talking about.

Raw file from camera:


Same file rendered in Vegas with matched media settings:


The black frame can be easily seen on this example which is about 2 1/2 seconds into the clip.

Also, this does not happen in Adobe Premiere with the same video clips, including the examples.

What can I do about this?

thanks

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 9/9/2013, 11:12 AM
OK, you matched media settings.
Snapping enabled?
Quantize to frames turned on?
These conditions must exist before putting the video on the timeline.
Does no good to turn them on after you've imported the video.
bamboozler wrote on 10/3/2013, 7:20 PM
yes I did, not that it matters because this issue isn't at cut points or between edits, but during the clip(s) itself!

Obviously, Vegas doesn't like these files I'm importing, although they import and work perfectly in Lightworks, Premiere, even Windows Movie Maker and my Nikon Camera software.

I've been working with tech support for over a month now, and while they've given me a few things to try, nothing has worked and this issue has not been resolved. Over a month, because they get back to me about once per week.

I have since nearly completed my project in Lightworks. I was a Vegas user since '05 but this issue is making the program unusable for video.

Thanks for your response, anyway. I realize there's got to be some bug somewhere. I've also reinstalled the program, updated the drivers, all sorts of things, and seems the only solution is to either get a new copy of Vegas or use another program. The latter solution here is working splendidly and the former is not an option (unless it's uncharged) as I haven't even had it for very long.

If I'm doing something wrong to cause this, I'd love to know what it is so I can fix it, but as of now I'm out of hope for editing video in Vegas. Makes a dandy audio editor, though!

bamboozler wrote on 10/11/2013, 8:30 PM
not that anyone cares or has a clue to solve this, but just a final update, I did all of the hardware suggestions from "tech support" now and more. Ended up completely refreshing my entire PC and reinstalled the program. I tried the clip and it still does this.

Bottom line here is Vegas will not accept video files from my Nikon camera. Thankfully, my other NLE's do.
Markk655 wrote on 10/12/2013, 11:12 AM
-What format is the video?
- Have you tried running the free trial of V12? Does it do the same thing?
reeld wrote on 10/13/2013, 2:51 PM
VMS sucks.. it can't play MOV files unless it has the correct quicktime codec which is always changing. I've been editing for days for delivery tomorrow and now on sunday night it wont recognize MOV files or even it's own .vf file . I can't even open my work now. Un acceptable.