Don’t know why I’ve not seen this post before, but it’s of extreme interest to me. I’ve just finished a very lengthy series of 3X upscales with Starlight Mini - sorry, not on AI 6, but AI 7 - that took nearly a month of 24/7 operation. I broke the original video 5-minute segments to guard against one failure taking out everything previously finished.
As the segments finished processing, I’d load them into Vegas Pro on a different computer to check on the results, and I saw some very odd things happening. The first thing I noticed was odd waveforms on the audio of the first two or three segments. The left channel was pretty well maxed-out, amplitude-wise. When played, it sounded like loud white or pink noise. The right channel looked to be essentially flat, but when played, was clearly the wrong speed, sounding like 2 or more times the correct playback pitch, and maybe speed, too, but I really didn’t try to evaluate it. It was just clearly messed-up! Subsequent files turned out ok, audio-wise.
Then the weirdness kicked it up a notch. The experiment just mentioned was done with Vegas Pro 19. These files couldn’t be imported into Vegas Pro 21 and 22. There were some very strange, outrageously high framerates showing in the import panel and Vegas said ‘Uh, uh - not gonna do it…’
So I opened the project in Vegas Pro 19, where the video was ok, but the audio was messed up, and saved it under a new name on a network drive, where I could load try to load it into VP22 on my newest, most capable computer, which had been tied up with Starlight Renders for so long. It wouldn’t load into 22. So I did what seemed to be logical: I tried to load this VP19 file into VP19 on this second computer. It would not recognize the video files, just as they had been shutout on VP21 and VP22 on the other computer, but worked ok on VP19.
I’ve looked at these files with MediaInfo and can’t really see what the issue is, although I’m far from expert in figuring these things out.
My purpose in documenting this is not to seek a solution from Topaz on this specific issue, only to to send along the idea that there are some strange things going on at times. For the record, I currently have good video files from my Starlight Mini mp4 files, and have them all on the timeline along with the original audio file from the single, large source file. So I can finish the project from here, but it sure would be nice to know why VP19 behaved differently on one computer than the other. (I looked at preferences, which appear to be identical. Codecs, given that they’re loaded by Magix upon installation, should be the same as well.)
