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Sony Vegas & MTS files.
I have a Canon HF R406. I want to edit my MTS files (mainly home movies, & save them to a media hard drive for viewing on a TV.
My Vegas 11 software can read the files but not smoothly. Also, I can’t find a suitable render template that will work without losing the original quality. I have spent days online looking for a simple solution, downloaded mountains of video converters and rendered to just about every template on the planet.
Life was so easy with my old Sony Handycam.
Thanks,
Colin Sumner -
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I am not sure what you mean by “smoothly”. If you’re previewing the video, it’s best to see it in Preview auto mode and then render a piece to see how the output in your desired template appears quality-wise.
I too have a Sony Handycam (SDR10, output is ), and my workflow is to output to MPEG-2 for DVD or AVC for Blu-ray.
From experience, I believe there is an .MTS template, but where would you distribute that output? You’d only be able to view it on a PS3 or PS4, I believe, and you can’t input it again to the camera for connecting via HDMI to a TV.
For M2TS output, use the Sony AVC/MVC varieties of AVCHD. You will have quality loss with any rendering (someone correct me, if I’m wrong about that).
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Colin, that camera uses the AVCHD 2.0 codec, which is capable of 1080 50p at 28 Mbps. Are you creating 50p or 25p files?
Vegas 11 can handle the “double frame rate stuff” , but you might need to play with smart resample. In the US, that coded produces 1080 60p at 28 Mbps; I use those files quote often in Vegas 11. With smart resample they will play at real speed; but you can set Vegas to also play them at 50% for slow-mo.
When you say “smooth”, are you referring to the preview not keeping up with the project render framerate, which has probably defaulted to 24.97 (or close I don’t have Vegas installed on this computer)?
It might just be that your computer and graphics card cant keep up in Preview and is skipping frames; try disabling auto-resize of the preview window and reducing the resolution to Good quarter or Preview quarter and see if that helps.
Steve
Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8
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Hey guys, thanks for your input.
I did mean the preview when I said “smooth”. I will try reducing the resolution.
I have tried both the 50p & 25p outputs from the camera.
I was recently advised in another forum to convert the files to mpeg2 before importing into Vegas for editing, then render to mpg using the standard DVD template?
What I can’t understand is: as with nearly all the new “low end” HD camcorders on the market these days. If you shoot in HD, then have to convert the file to something you can work with, ending up with a standard 720×576 25fps output, then what is the point of shooting 1920 x 1080 50p in the first place? Surely you would lose whatever quality you start off with on the way down to the final output?
I would be very keen to find out which software other “amateur” video heads are using to create & store home movies.Colin
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Ok, now that you have clarified that the Preview is not smooth, we know that you are just encountering the common problem of your system (CPU. graphics card, etc. ) not being able to keep up.
Lots of threads on this frustrating problem.
Here are a few:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/973364
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/973767
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/973721
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/973445Steve
Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8
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