Sony Vegas Red JPGs on Timeline ?

[blewyn]

I'm using Sony Vegas 7.0a to make a 30-min movie in 1280x720x60fps. So far I have reached 2min 45s, and am trying to put a 16mb 23500x2638pixel photograph on the timeline. The program accepts the photo but on the timeline it appears as a solid red block. When I open event pan/crop to zoom in etc, it's just a grey page.

I've used large photos (they're stitched) in my Vegas projects before, without problems. I have reduced dynamic preview ram to 32mb.

Win7 Ultimate (real not virtual)
Macbook Pro 2Ghz 4GB

I need to see the photo because I need to zoom in on it and pan around....

Any ideas ?

PS According to my intenet searches Vegas 9 has the same issue...

[aedipuss]

try .png rather than .jpg

[budwzr]

Rename the source still. Do it right there in the media bin by right clicking.

[blewyn]

Renaming didn't work - but PNG did !!!

Odd though - the JPG is 16MB but the PNG is 77MB yet it works and the JPG doesn't......

[blewyn]

Update....the PNG did NOT work when it came to render.....but it did if the short sequence that contained it was rendered separately (ie a totally separate project). So I split the main project into smaller chunks, rendered them lossless, then stitched them together in a new meta-project. Worked fine