Problem with Sony Vegas reverse video

[supercain]

Hi,

i recorded some footage but its missing part of the video and only the audio is complete. The video is a guy talking so i thought it was a good idea to replace the missing part by duplicating the part i do have and adding it instead of the missing part, but since the ends wont match up i want to reverse the added part so both ends will match and look natural. However, the reversed video plays with a lot of lag and not as even near as smoothly. Is this normal or there is a problem with either vegas or my video?

Thank you.

[smrpix]

Does it play properly when it's rendered or exported? "Recorded some footage" doesn't say much about your source. It may simply be too heavy for Vegas to play backwards on your unspecified system in real time.

[supercain]

Hmm no, its barely 7MB, i dont think its that much. And yes, i just exported it and it still lags. I have found Sony Vegas is very crappy, maybe i should try another software?

[smrpix]

7mb of h.264 vs 7mb of DV vs 7mb of uncompressed are totally different creatures. Without more information or a short sample it's difficult to offer useful advice.

[supercain]

Okay, i hope this is enough:

Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 7.40 MiB
Duration : 44s 300ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 401 Kbps
Writing application : BandiAviMuxer 1.0

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 1
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Codec ID : MPEG
Codec ID/Info : Chromatic MPEG 1 Video I Frame
Duration : 44s 300ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 246 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.020
Stream size : 6.58 MiB (89%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Codec ID : 50
Duration : 44s 256ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 112 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 605 KiB (8%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.72 video frame)

[aedipuss]

if you are talking about vegas pro12, no it doesn't suck, the problem is usually btk. the way to go about it is to save out the original video as uncompressed or as sony yuv. then reverse it and save another copy out as uncompressed or sony yuv. then put the 2 lossless copies together on the timeline and do your editing.

[supercain]

Hmm no, i have pro 11. What does btk mean?

[smrpix]

If you think Vegas is crappy (it isn't) all the others have free trials. You can try your hand with Pinnacle 16, Premiere Pro, Avid Media Compser and see if they suck any less.

BTW, you've got a very unusual file: MPEG-1 I-frame 1250kbs 1920x1080 in avi. That bitrate seems extremely low given the other parameters. I also can't reproduce that with any of my tools, so if you feel like posting a sample, please do.

[supercain]

Okay, there you go.

[supercain]

Any help please?

[filmboss80]

Look, this is apparently a screen capture using Bandicam or something like it. The video codec is almost proprietary and not for production videos. You have a very, very compressed format that requires some heavy cpu consumption for decompression. This kind of video is going to choke on most timeline editors. You need to convert to an intermediate format to do your editing; something like Lagarith (which will produce a huge file size, but is lossless), HDV (which is lossy but handled well by Vegas), Cineform (see GoPro), etc.

It is hard to help you, because most of us have never even attempted to edit that format natively. Most of us know better.

[supercain]

Yes, i noticed that, but vegas cant handle even avi compressed with h264 which is very sued nowadays so i think i will just give it up. Besides the program is buggy as hell.