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Mp4 Encoding problem with Vegas Pro 10b
Please bear in mind I am not a pro at this. I’ve been using Vegas 9 for a while and upgraded to Vegas Pro 10 when I bought a second hand Sony HVR-V1E last month. I had no problems enocding with Vegas 10a however after upgrading to 10b last week, I can now only encode exactly 48 seconds of Mp4 before it becomes corrupted. The file creates OK however on any PC the player stops at 49 seconds. It does this with any source content. I restored my PC to before I upgrade to 10a and vegas works fine. Even after getting the other PC software/apps updated it still works fine in Vegas 10a. As soon as I update to 10b the problem comes back. I haven’t reported to Sony yet however I would imagine this is a code/Container or transport problem?? I’ve gone back to 10a to allow me to create MP4’s with no probs however I noticed there are loads of bug fixes in 10b so would really like to update again.
Any thoughts?
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7 Replies
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Sony is aware of thew problem and will hopefully fix it in the next update.
In the meantime, your solution is the one they recommend.If you do want to use 10.0b, a user on the Sony Vegas forum offered the following solution.
Copy the AVC codec directory from 10.0a to 10.0b:
32bit:
c:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Vegas Pro 10.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mp4plug364bit:
c:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 10.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mp4plug3If you’ve already upgraded to 10.0b and don’t want to go through the uninstall/re-install hassle, you can download the necessary files from https://dennishelmar.com/wip/.
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for the advice and also for replying so quickly!
Thanks
Andy
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Yep, I had the exact same problem and spent about two weeks trying to isolate it. Thanks for the fix. Kind of strange that Sony actually created a problem with an upgrade.
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[frank rizzo] “Kind of strange that Sony actually created a problem with an upgrade.”
You obviously never went through the upgrade hell of Pro 9.
Until 9.0d, it seemed that each update seriously broke something that was working just fine 🙁 -
Actually, I do remember it since I started around 9b. But this MP4 bug was especially tricky because it only appears AFTER you do all the work to be ready to render, and you have no idea why you can’t get the final product. Fortunately for me it was for a film I was working on, but if it were client work, yikes.
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You obviously never went through the upgrade hell of Pro 9.
Or for that matter, Windows 98 -> 98SE -> 98ME (ok, they didn’t call it 98ME, but that’s effectively what it was).
Hopefully this is a one-time thing. But there’s a certain danger when you see this too much.
Ideally, when a program is first created, it’s a well organized, well planned design, which may have a few bugs in the specific implementation… which hopefully get fixed.
Over time, it’s quite possible to manage the upgrades, but it’s also possible that some things get fixed with weird hacks, programmers leave the company, taking some of that knowledge with them, etc. That was precisely the case with 16-bit Windows: there were many, many kludges necessary to add new features. Top programmers left, others got transferred to the Windows 2000 and Windows XP projects.
And so, eventually, it became very difficult to make any additions or even bug fixes without breaking something else. They have lost control of the code… it’s too complex, without a major overhaul, to continue developing.
Hopefully, it’s just a bug. I suspect so.. for one, the AVC emitter is clearly a separate module, and not a huge one. You wouldn’t expect that one to break, even if Sony programmers had lost control of the code. But I’m going to pay a little more attention before jumping on new versions in the future… didn’t get burned by this, but if it had come out a few weeks earlier, I might have.
-Dave
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Hi i have the same problem using Mpeg4 video with vegas, I am trying to get the file that you have there, to copy and past it in the Plug-ins as you say, can u please help me.
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