Hi- I’m the editor of the “Shroud of the Dark Side”, an extensive edit of Ep. II that would have been coming out in the very near future had I not ran into a variety of creative problems with my computer. It ended by removing the HD and installing alternate hardware as well.
In the meantime, I’m editing on a Compaq PC (Nvidia card), hoping to get some work done while waiting for some things to arrive. However, I have a big problem. After opening up one of the project files in Vegas 5.0, I realized that in every shot I had spliced together is two frames off. So every shot or set of shots in the film is now…two frames off.
This is a major problem for obvious reasons- I’ve cropped and color-timed each shot differently from the ones surrounding it, and I’ve done a lot of resequencing. Many times, when there’s a splice, I get two frames of a shot I never intended to be there. This is BAD.
Long story short, has anyone experienced this issue, and if so, is there any way to get around it, short of redoing all of the source files and padding them with 2 extra frames at the beginning to avoid this painstaking work? (which still wouldn’t work for the various AVI inserts)
I’d be so grateful if any of you have any ideas on how to fix this or helpful comments. Thanks so much for your help.
-TM
P.S. It’s not this particular PC that’s the problem, by the way. The same thing happened on my other PC, the editing PC, some time ago last year. When it happened this first time, I just relented and changed every shot in the project to eliminate the problem. But now that it’s happened a second time, I’m really not looking forward to trying to do it again (especially since I had pretty much the whole thing cut perfectly just the way I wanted it before this happened).