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Movie Studio has added frames
I have a video in AVCHD format which plays fine
Now when I load it into Movie Studio, movie studio has added extra frames out – ie frame 64 was added which is a copy of frame 62 therefore the vid appears to step backwards when played or rendered using Movie Studio
The original vid does not do this
is this an import settings problem?
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I do all my Movie Studio work with AVCHD clips, but I have not noticed this problem in Movie Studio. (I’ve used HD Platinum v9 and v10.) I used to use Corel’s VideoStudio X2 and X3. Both versions added an extra frame when rendering AVCHD, but only after a transition between clips. It was exactly like what you are seeing. In the rendered AVCHD file, there would be frame x, then x+1, then x again (the rendering process added the duplicate frame x). So it looked like the rendered video ran backwards for an instant.
There were long discussion threads about the problem in the Corel forums, but I haven’t seen any mention of extra frames in this forum, or in several Sony Vegas forums that I have been reading daily for almost a year. I would think if Movie Studio has a bug where it is adding frames, someone would have posted about it (it’s possible that someone did and I just missed it). That leads me to think that it could your settings, but I don’t have any ideas about which setting could cause this problem.
You mentioned “import settings”. Not sure if it matters, but I don’t use the “Import Media” function in VMS. I copy the clips from my camcorder to a hard drive, then use the “Explorer” tab in Movie Studio to drag clips to the time line. I doubt that has anything to do with the extra frames, but if you are actually using “Import Media” you could try the other method of getting clips into the time line.
Hopefully someone more experienced with VMS will be able to help.
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Dale
I tried using the exporter tab on the movies trimmed in PMB and it got even worse in terms of adding frames when.I then went to the original camera footage and it was fine when I imported it into VMS. At the moment I think that Sony VMS doesnt like video trimmed by Sony PMB. All of my previoius trims are now useless.
The interesting thing is that the trimmed AVCHD files from Sony PMB look fantastic when you play them in anything other than VMS.
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Ernie, I don’t use PMB anymore, but did use it when I first got my Sony camcorder and still have it installed on my PC. To see if I could replicate the problem, I used PMB to trim the first and last second off some unedited AVCHD clips. I put the trimmed clips on the time line in Vegas Movie Studio 10 Platinum and they played correctly in the preview window. I also previewed them frame-by-frame and saw no occurrence of a duplicate frame that makes the video appear to go backwards. Then I rendered them using the Sony AVC AVCHD template. The rendered file played correctly. I also tried changing some of the project properties to see if having those set incorrectly would create the problem. Even with incorrect project properties, I didn’t see duplicate frames in the VMS preview window.
I don’t know what could be causing the problem you are seeing. The only solution I can think of is to no longer use PMB. I found it to be an extra, unnecessary step in my work flow (but you may be finding it more useful than I did).
I still hope some of the more experienced Vegas users in the forum will respond with more useful suggestions. You could also post your problem in Sony’s Vegas Movie Studio forum if you don’t find a solution here in the CreativeCow Vegas forum.
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Dale
Thank you very much for your efforts in trying to help me. I have decided to go back to square 1 and retrim all of my original videos directly in VMS and scrap all of my edits from PMB. Unfortunately this has cost me about 30 hours of extra work but this method is working for me.
Part of my problem is that I did not have VMS originaly when I did the trims so I had not way of testing the results.
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>>Unfortunately this has cost me about 30 hours of extra work<< Ouch! That's a lot of re-work, but hopefully a one-time event. Since you are new to VMS, I'll just mention this in case you haven't discovered it yet. You can trim in the "Trimmer Window", but most users prefer to trim in the time line by dragging the edges of the clip. Good luck.
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