The ghost frame is because Vegas set the movie FPS to 24, when it was shot in 15fps. To change this simply swap it to 15 or your films fps. I'm personally not sure about the Black bar text, but I'm sure users with Vegas know how to get rid of it.

In fact, I keep the "ghost" thing because it makes each pic transition smoother, making the video smoother. About the writing, don't use helium frog. I just take pics and import them to Sony Vegas. Then I put the pics into the timeline, and they automatically squish down to 15fps because of the setting I did, and then you can view it right then and there to see how the footage came out (it takes a few runs to get the lag to stop). Then, when you render, it places the ghost, and you have a pro-looking vid. Presto.

Brickfilmer a decade ago, now looking to relive the glory days

In your project settings inside of vegas, set the fps to multimedia 15 gps to get rid of the frame blendlng which looks very distracting to the eye. As for your other prob bro, I got no idea.

-Tejas VIM

Press control + Shift + X to turn off automatic crossfades, there's also a symbol for it in the top left.