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Video render is choppy and/or frozen
Hello,
This is my first post – I am new to video editing, but know my way around and would greatly appreciate some advice on my rendering issue… “help me help you!” 🙂
Here are some details on my project (more to follow given your input):
Sony Vegas Version 11.0 (Build 371) 64-bit
timeline is 15 minutes long and video preview playback is flawless
all tracks render except video tracks which are choppy and/or frozenI am unable to render with ANY output format where the video isn’t choppy and/or frozen…
Ideally, I would like to render with the “AVCHD 1920×1080-60i” template for the final product.2 cameras were used; CANON VIXIA HF R200 & CANON EOS Rebel T2i
many video files are used in the project, here are some property examples:Properties for CANON VIXIA HF R200:
General
Name: 00007.MTS
Folder: D:\Fraps\2012 FITES 200 MAN LAN\Film\Canons\vG.shank
Type: MPEG-2 Transport Stream
Size: 790.25 MB (809,220,096 bytes)
Created: Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 6:49:41 AM
Modified: Friday, February 24, 2012, 11:07:26 AM
Accessed: Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 6:49:41 AM
Attributes: ArchiveStreams
Video: 00:04:29.770, 29.970 fps interlaced, 1920x1080x12, AVC
Audio: 00:04:29.770, 48,000 Hz, Stereo, Dolby AC-3
Properties for CANON EOS Rebel T2i:
General
Name: MVI_1251.MOV
Folder: D:\Fraps\2012 FITES 200 MAN LAN\Film\Grealish
Type: Sony AVC
Size: 1.95 GB (1,996,127,061 bytes)
Created: Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 7:05:41 AM
Modified: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 3:07:54 AM
Accessed: Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 7:05:41 AM
Attributes: ArchiveStreams
Video: 00:05:39.039, 29.970 fps progressive, 1920x1080x12, AVC
Audio: 00:05:39.039, 48,000 Hz, Stereo, PCM
PC Specs:
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600)
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (4 CPUs)
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series -
5 Replies
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I don’t do any of the mixes you have there, so please take my comments as a wish to assist rather than hinder or criticise. OK . . .
1/- Have you ever done this mix before?
2/- I see you have a mix of interlace and progressive. Have you thought of fixing your project to reflect one of those types? Or how have you set your project to accommodate the differences?
3/- When and where is it choppy? Is it at the break from interlace to progressive?
4/- Less important but, do you have your media on separate hard drives to your system?
5/- Your Build of Vegas11 is Build371. In the White Paper for VP11, I don’t see that Build as part of the dev for VP11? However, the most recent version is Build 701. Is there a reason why you haven’t gone beyond the Build you have? The next/later builds have a MASS of improvements including ACVHD version 2.0. Please read through the improvements – I think you will be staggered!
https://dspcdn.sonycreativesoftware.com/releasenotes/vegaspro11.0.700_readme_enu.htm
Cheers
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 and two elderly XM2s -
Listen, the videos that are choppy and frozen as you put it,
are they behaving like that when you play them on the computer
before you put them in Vegas?Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956 -
Graham/Steve,
Thank you both for replying.
Graham – it is late and I will reply to all your questions in the AM.
Steve – no, the videos behave perfectly on my PC before importing to Vegas. -
Steve, Brad is saying that “timeline is 15 minutes long and video preview playback is flawless” and that the chopiness is on the rendered output. Wouldn’t that suggest that the media is fine to start with, that the CODEC is working for the Media being used and that it is solely the remaining workflow, here that is rendering, which is creating the issue for him?
If Brad could post a tiny bit of the media to try out, I would be willing to interrogate it for him.
Cheers
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 and two elderly XM2s -
Graham,
Your reply to Steve is correct and this leads me to believe that the cause of my rendering issue could simply be an issue of Build (my 371 build vs the latest 701 build) *crosses fingers* Regardless, I appreciate that you’d be willing to test a tiny bit of my media and I will work on uploading that to my dropbox account tonight for easy access.
Upgrading build/version questions:
1) when upgrading to the latest build (pro 11, 701), would my project stay intact or would I have to start all over?
2) when upgrading to the latest version (pro 12), would my project stay intact or would I have to start all over?Answers to your questions yesterday:
1/- Have you ever done this mix before?
– No, first time2/- I see you have a mix of interlace and progressive. Have you thought of fixing your project to reflect one of those types? Or how have you set your project to accommodate the differences?
– I’m learning as I go, can you explain how I have a mix? If that means different video media (.MTS vs .MOV) then I have a mix because friends and I used two different cameras when capturing footage. If I need to have all video media the same ‘type’ then I’d have to use 3rd party software to convert all .MTS to .MOV or visa versa? Sorry if I misunderstand this question.3/- When and where is it choppy? Is it at the break from interlace to progressive?
– This may explain my confusion on above question. If interlace means my non-video media and progressive means my video media, then it is choppy the MOMENT there is a break from interlace to progressive. For example, the first 20-30 seconds of my project is an intro (fade in to image/text with background music etc.) then I break into video and at that moment, it gets choppy/frozen (but I still hear the audio from the video just fine).4/- Less important but, do you have your media on separate hard drives to your system?
– No, all project files are stored in one directory on my 1TB hdd, then I have sub folders in that directory for Images, Music, Video, etc. and everything imports into Vegas without issue.5/- Your Build of Vegas11 is Build371. In the White Paper for VP11, I don’t see that Build as part of the dev for VP11? However, the most recent version is Build 701. Is there a reason why you haven’t gone beyond the Build you have? The next/later builds have a MASS of improvements including ACVHD version 2.0. Please read through the improvements – I think you will be staggered! https://dspcdn.sonycreativesoftware.com/releasenotes/vegaspro11.0.700_readme...
– No reason for not upgrading, but this sounds promising and I will wait to upgrade until further interrogation haha.
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