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m2ts, mp4…
I downloaded an M2TS video file and an MP4 file from a friend, and attempted to edit them in Sony Vegas Pro 9.0c x64 Build 895. I’m running a Windows 7 Professional x64 computer.
A few MP4 files I have work, but very, very slowly. On the timeline, their video frames are red in some cases, although with some MP4 clips the thumbnails show up just file. They have a strong tendency to make my PC slow to a crawl.
The problem with the M2TS file (actually, a few M2TS files) is that I get audio but no video. I have K-Lite Codec Pack x64 installed, and can play them just fine in WMP. When I try to drag them onto the Vegas timeline, the audio shows up and the peaks build, and playing the file gives me audio only. Frames are either red or black in the video layer of the timeline.
Any help is much appreciated.
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2 Replies
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M2TS is a Blu-ray delivery format and is not meant to be edited. MP4 is also very difficult to edit (as you have seen). You really want to convert these to an edit friendly format to work with them. Try using an intraframe codec like Huffyuv, Lagarith, MJPEG, Cineform, etc. All of these formats edit easily in Vegas.
Also, you should NEVER install a “codec pak” on a video editing workstation. They and great for entertainment PC’s but you should only install the codecs that you need for video editing because these paks can actually overlay / replace high quality codecs that you paid good money for in Vegas with a cheap free codecs that have inferior quality. It’s like taking every pill in your medicine cabinet in hopes that one will cure you… one might, but the others could kill you. 😉
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Thanks, I’ll give those codecs a try.
On a somewhat related note, I’ve found that the font list in Vegas is pretty out of date. It includes references to fonts that I don’t have (Arial Baltic, CE, et cetera), and it’s fairly annoying since from what I understand, these are simply alias fonts of Arial. Is there any way to edit the Vegas font list? Or should I just re-install?
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