• VEGAS Pro

  Can’t render to AVCHD with WAV or AIFF soundtracks

  Posted by Ian Schwartz on May 25, 2009 at 1:54 pm

  Vegas 8c crashes and Vegas 9 gives me out memory errors when I try to render to Sony AVCHD from m2ts input files if I have an audio track that isn’t in MP3 format. These same projects will successfully render to any other format (MOV, AVI, MP4…).

  Background:
  I switched cameras recently from a CanonHV20 DVC based camera that output m2t files to a hard-drive based Sony that saves AVCHD m2ts files.

  Environment: I’m running 32 bit Vista SP3 on a less then 1 year old Core-2 duo machine with 4 GB of ram and a 7200 rpm SATA2 hard drive.

  What Works:
  m2t + anything – I can render AVCHD files from any of the m2t files I shot with my Canon. These include multi-track music projects with music captured from CDs by Vegas or sound files created by Sonicfire Pro, which include both WAV & AIFF files at the highest bit-rates.

  m2ts + MP3 – I can render AVCHD files from any of the m2ts files I shot with my Sony if my Vegas project doesn’t have a soundtrack or if I use MP3 files for my soundtrack.
  I can also render to any other output format except for AVCHD using WAV & AIFF files as a soundtrack.

  What Doesn’t Work:
  m2ts + WAV or AIFF to AVCHD – If I import a CD using Vegas’ own CD to WAV function and use that as a sound-track, I get Out Of Memory errors in Vegas 9. If I try it with Vegas 8c, it just crashes after a few minutes.

  What I’ve tried to solve the problem:
  I’ve searched both this forum and the Sony Creative site and have followed these suggesitons from various sources:

  Used the CFF EXPLORER freeware utility to turn on the “”app can handle > than 2gig address space” switch for various Vegas files.

  • Changing Pixel format to 8-bit in Project properties.
  • Created WAV & AIFF files with the lowest bit-rates.
  • Unchecked “Enable No Recompress for Long-GOP rendering”
  • Played with my Dynamic RAM Preview, setting it anywhere from 0 to 400 to 800.
  • Tried using one of the lower Bit-Rate settings while selecting the Sony AVC.
  • Tried rendering to AVCHD 1440×1080 NTSC
  • Rendered to a different non-AVCHD format, import the rendered file back into a new project in Vegas and then re-encoded the video to AVCHD.
  • Turned off thumbnails and display in timeline during your render.
  • I also completey reinstalled Vegas, after removing any evidence of Vegas from the registry.
  • Used MSConfig to turn off every non-Microsoft program in my windows environment, including my virus-scanner.

  Ian Schwartz

  Ian Schwartz replied 16 years, 12 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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