Clips have turned red on the timeline in 9c
by Bob Peterson
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Nov 6, 2009 at 8:46:19 pm
I have been working on a fairly simple two camera shoot in SV Pro 9c. Last night, I duplicated the two video tracks, moved them to the top of the stack, and muted the original tracks. I then selected the two duplicated tracks, and created a multicamera track.
Today, a video clip on one of the original tracks is displaying as a bright red color on the time line. Similarly, some of the video on the multicamera track is a bright red. Previously, all video tracks showed image thumbnails on the timeline. Everything seems to play normally although I have not attempted any renders.
What is the bright red color indicating? Should I move this project back to Pro 8 before spending more time on it?
Re: Clips have turned red on the timeline in 9c by Norman Willis on Nov 6, 2009 at 9:30:03 pm
I worked fine on 9.0a and 9.0b with only one 'red episode' in each, which was solved by a simple close and re-open. Then I upgraded to 9.0c, and I have this kind of thing often.
Usually a simple close-and-re-open will clear it, although if it keeps up, I may roll back to 9.0b, which was comparatively error-free.
I contacted Sony, and they told me to shut my Anti-Virus off. I told them it already was off, and they said the same thing again (turn your anti-virus off). I decided that since I had already reported the issue I should just press on, and if it does not resolve itself I will roll back to 9.0b.
Re: Clips have turned red on the timeline in 9c by Bob Peterson on Nov 6, 2009 at 11:28:22 pm
Hmmmmmmm. There are some things you do not do. One of those is to turn the anti virus software off. There is, of course, also the fact the the anti virus software does not seem to have the ability to be shut off. It would be better to revert to release 8.
Re: Clips have turned red on the timeline in 9c by Norman Willis on Nov 7, 2009 at 12:58:28 am
Well, it's off. In AVG, one just disables Resident Shield.
And I never go anywhere online with my desktop except hunting for .jpg's on three websites, and uploading to three other websites. And I only answer emails from my laptop. I don't even get email from anyone else.
It just crashed on render at 7%, and so I set Dynamic RAM Preview to 0. Now it is rendering at 35%. So we'll see. But I sure wish I knew why it never uses more than 4GB RAM.
Re: Clips have turned red on the timeline in 9c by David Jaques on Nov 17, 2009 at 9:56:12 am
G'day Bob
I don't know if this helps, but I had the same problem when I was using Vegas 7 until I got rid of the cheap tapes I was using in my Sony HDR-HC1E. Once I started using the high quality Sony tapes, the problem went away.
Re: Clips have turned red on the timeline in 9c by Bob Peterson on Nov 17, 2009 at 9:43:56 pm
If your comment was addressed to me, both cameras were using Sony Premium tape. I switched to Sony Premium several years ago when I learned that a camera should always use the same tape formulation.
