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Movie Studio HD 9.0 doesn’t work at all!
I’m trying to edit a video with clips made in 720 hd, however each time I try to upload footage to Sony Vegas Movie Studio something goes wrong, usually ending in Vegas freezing. The problems:
- At first the clips loaded fine, but the preview video was too choppy to edit anything. I then learned I had to convert the files from AVHD to mpg or m2t to make a clearer preview. No free converter program does this, so I have to convert it using movie studio by adding the footage (in batches) to the timeline and making an mpg hd “movie” and here’s where the problems start
- Whenever I tried to add some footage to the timeline, Vegas just freezes and says “not responding.” This forces me to force quit and restart the program after many minutes.
- Sometimes I make it to the the “make movie” stage (after adding footage to the timeline with no problems), but during the rendering, it just stays at 0%. If I try to cancel the rendering it freezes again with “not responding.”
Things I’ve already tried
- re-installing
- checking for updates
- re-installing from website instead of CD
- closing all other applications
- saving the clips onto the hard drive first instead of downloading from SD card
- disk defrag, disk cleanup
- restart computer
- working from external hard drive
Did I just waste money on a product that doesn’t work? That’s what it feels like. Very frustrating as I have a lot to do for this project.
P.S.
Working from Windows Vista. I have 129GB of space available on the C drive and about 106GB on external HD.
Another problem I’ve had (which may require a separate post) is that now there are no sound peaks/no sound from the clips all of a sudden (once added to the timeline). But if I play the files outside Vegas, there is sound. -
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I think people are going to want to know where the files are coming from and also computer specs.
Just a guess from the common problem files…..a computer with Vista is likely to be a little long in the tooth and might be lacking in the horse power to work HD.
If this is footage from a DSLR You may need a newer version of the software. 9.0 is close to 2 years old when many of these new HD formats didn’t exist.
The problem with missing audio is most likely do to a problem caused by a Quicktime update that broke older versions of Vegas. You will need to back date to an old version of Quicktime 7.6.2
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[ted nopple] “Did I just waste money on a product that doesn’t work?”
If you just bought Movie Studio 9 you got ripped off. That is quite old. Movie Studio HD 10 has been out for a while now. You can’t expect to edit brand new 720p AVCHD footage using old software. Thats just asking for trouble.
I would download the trial of Movie Studio HD 10 and see if that solves your problem. If it does, see if you an get your money back for 9 and buy 10 instead.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thanks for the advice, but so far I’ve fixed the problem, I think.
Instead of trying to convert the files using Vegas, I converted them to .divx files using Divx.
I don’t plan on buying Vegas 10 anytime soon because by the time I can afford it, Vegas 11 will probably be here and I’ll be in the same situation. This whole planned obsolesce thing is annoying.
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You may want to rethink the Divx idea. Vegas offers no support for it and it is famous for seemingly working fine then for no apparent reason going all pear shaped and causing huge frustration.
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[ted nopple] “Instead of trying to convert the files using Vegas, I converted them to .divx files using Divx.”
Joe is dead on with his advice. Vegas doesn’t like DivX or Xvid at all. Stay far, far, away from editing these formats. It will be a nightmare. DivX and Xvid are final delivery formats not editing formats. If you want to convert the file for editing, use Motion-JPEG and PCM audio.
[ted nopple] “This whole planned obsolesce thing is annoying.”
Well… the problem is, the camera makers come out with new formats every 6 months so if you want to keep buying the latest camera, you need to buy the latest software to go with it.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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