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    Help! What's doing this?


    it looks fine on the camera. When I copy it onto my computer, this happens. I have copied from the camera as USB device. I have copied directly from the P2 card in a laptop. I have used straight MXFs and I have tried using Raymaker and I can't make this stuff go away.

    My coworker has a mac and imported the same footage but had no artifacts. So I copied the Contents onto a firewire hard-drive on a mac, and then copied from there onto my PC. Same problem.

    I'm using Vegas 8. I just installed 8.0b and that didn't help.

    I've been using the same workflow for about 6 months now and have never had a problem. I'm not doing anything different now. AH! Any help would be soooooooo appreciated.

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    If you're not seeing it on other systems using the same data files, then it's probably a codec issue. I'd contact DVFilm.


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    i think i just figured out that its the USB port on the front of my computer. Using the port on the back I have no problem. Weird. I wonder why the computer didn't give me any kind of error when copying the files.
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    Try it a few times systematically and see if that's the problem.


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    I've had the same type of thing happen. For me it's when I have used or am using photoshop and running vegas. Something in the way photoshop copies to the clipboard maybe.
    A reboot and not firing up photoshop works.
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    that's interesting. i'll do some more testing next time i import footage.
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    My problem would happen during editing, not importing. And I use Vegas 7.
    I've tried to reproduce the effect but have yet to. Ofcourse it happens when I don't want it to.

    But I guess it wouldn't hurt to reboot before importing just to clear to ram and video buffers and see if that does it. But I doubt it by the sounds of it.
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