Using vegas movie studio 9.0a
The original Movie Studio does not support HD. Are you using Movie Studio Platinum? or the newer Movie Studio HD? If not, that could be your problem.
Also the latest Movie Studio is at 9.0b so you might want to upgrade from 9.0a to ‘b’ and see if that fixes the problem.
I believe that camera shoots AVCHD so it should work with the latest 9.0b version of Movie Studio Platinum or Movie Studio HD. Have you installed any “codec paks” or any other software that might interfere with Movie Studio? That’s the only thing I can think of, unless there is something different about JVC’s implementation of AVCHD that Movie Studio can’t handle. In which case you should open a problem ticket with Sony support to let them know about it.
~jr
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