Huffyuv question

[ROBO1964]

I posted about thise before but now I have discovered the problem isn't what I thought it was so I decided to repost since I didn't get any responses. This is a more accurate title with a more accurate problem description.

I captured some video using Virtualdub using Huffyuv compression. It seemed fine but when I put it into Vegas Video 3 the picture was just a mass of colored dots. After fiddling with settings I think I could barely make out that the picture was also upside down.

I used Virtualdub to convert it to MJPEG format and it was fine. Today I took a small section of that same clip and saved it in Huffy using VV3 and it was fine I also changed the format to huffy using Vdub and it was fine.

So why in the world would a capture using huffy compression cause that problem? I don't want to spend a bunch of time capturing stuff that I will just have to convert to edit.

The ONLY thing I can think of was the format I captured at was 352x480.
Could that have somehow messed up the video for a single program?

[vegasvcd]

I had the same problem with Vegas LE, then I checked the "always suggest RGB format for output" in the HuffyUV options and it fixed the problem. Not sure what this does exactly, but it worked.

[mtremel]

Hey
I have also noticed this with clip captured with huffy compression, and have set it to rgb output. But since my final output is intended for tv, will I loose quality when vegas has to render the video back to ntsc color? Also will the render time in vegas increase?