First Light Changes not showing

[Garrett Low]

I'm using Vegas Pro 9 with NeoHD and First Light. I make adjustments in First Light and can see them on my monitor when viewing in Vegas. Then I go to render and the changes aren't made. When rendering it give a No Recompression Required not on my screen.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Garrett

[David Newman]

You must recompress if use FirstLight changes when rendering within Vegas.

P.S. You should upgrade you NeoHD to Neo 5.5.

[Garrett Low]

Thanks David, I already did upgrade. I still think of it as NeoHD. How do I force a recompress in Vegas? When I encoded the files I used the I-Frame only for smart rendering in Vegas. Now I can't figure out how to make the file recompress.

-Garrett

[David Newman]

"Options" menu -> Preferences in the General tab uncheck "Enable no-recompression long-GOP rendering"
that should fix it.

[Garrett Low]

I tried that. It still was not recompressing. Could it be because I had clicked I-Frame only when converting to CF avi's?

-Garrett

[David Newman]

Question for Sony I guess, as that used to work (or something like it.)

Or

simply place a NOP filter on the video output, use the "Reset to None" convolution kernel.

[Garrett Low]

Thanks David.

[Chris Barcellos]

Originally Posted by Garrett Low

I tried that. It still was not recompressing. Could it be because I had clicked I-Frame only when converting to CF avi's?

-Garrett

Same issue for me with Vegas. I have had to add a filter to get it to recompress. (Note: This is in Pro 10)

[Chris Barcellos]

Interesting new development. I completed edit of a film I had shot with my Canon 5D Mark II. I had shot it with the Cinestyle picture style. I converted the footage to Cineform using Neo 5.5. In FirstLight, I added the new Cinestyle treatment. I then edited the footage and finalized my film project in Vegas 10d. I rendered final version to a new .avi using the Cineform codec.

I then opened that rendered file in FirstLight, to see if I could add a different color treatment. While Firstlight saw the file, any changes I tried to make would not take.

I then took that file into HDLink, and converted it to another Cineform .avi. After rendering, I took that file into FirstLight, and I was able to subject it to all the adjustments available in First Light.

[David Newman]

You should be able use FirstLight on Vegas CineForm exports, I just retested here and it works fine. Send the offending clip to support@cineform.com. If it is too large, use VirtualDub to do a direct stream copy of 1 seconds worth (confirm it still fails) and send that.