Sony Vegas Move Studio HD 10 on 64bit OS

[Stewart Bourke]

Vega Movie Studio is not 64 bits, so even if running it on a 64 bit machine with all that RAM it will still only us the 2Gb…

I used to be given .wmv files to edit on movie studio, and even files of 2-3Gbs caused issues. Vegas does not like wmv files as it is quite compressed, and previewing is always choppy (it was for me in any case..) I would trying out converting the file into something something like mpeg2 if you are on SD. I don’t work in HD (yet) so I cannot suggest what format to use for HD – as you seem to be working in a HD format – but transcoding them into a less compressed format should give you a better previewing experience…

[John Rofrano]

[Edgar Trejo] “Core i7-2630qm @ 2GHz”

This is below the specs of 2.8Ghz recommended by Sony. You only have 2/3 the CPU power you need. Also, 2.0Ghz on a laptop is not the same as 2.0GHz on a desktop. Laptop processors cannot be measured by clock speed alone.

I also agree with Stewart that editing WMV is not a good idea. Normally, I would recommend that you convert them to CineForm, but that’s a $99 purchase and I realize that’s almost the cost of Vegas Movie Studio itself.

Alternately, you could convert them to AVI Motion-JPEG video and PCM audio with a tool like AviDemux. This format should edit smoothly in Movie Studio. You could also just render them to HDV 1080-60i files from within Movie Studio.

~jr

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[Edgar Trejo]

I made a bad choice then! Because the original video file was a .mp4 file from some JVC camcorder but Vegas couldn’t read it correctly for some reason. I would import and play but both the video and the audio were very jumpy. I read on other forums that this was due to an mp4 issue vegas has with quicktime. I did the fix and even uninstalled all apple software but it didn’t work. So, i found it much easier to convert to another format and .wmv seemed to import very smoothly with the best picture quality.

I’ll go ahead and try converting the mp4s to avi.
Another quick question:
In PROJECT – RENDER AS- I have the option to save in various file types but below that I also have a section called “template” which lets me choose from NTSC DV and PAL DV among others. The “others” are HD 1080-60i with a variation of 50i and 24p. What is the difference?

Thanks for everything so far!

[John Rofrano]

[Edgar Trejo] “I made a bad choice then! Because the original video file was a .mp4 file from some JVC camcorder but Vegas couldn’t read it correctly for some reason.”

Yea, you went from one highly compressed lossy format to another highly compressed lossy format and as you saw, that got you nowhere. The correct thing to do is to buy CineForm and use that as your digital intermediary format.

[Edgar Trejo] “Another quick question:
In PROJECT – RENDER AS- I have the option to save in various file types but below that I also have a section called “template” which lets me choose from NTSC DV and PAL DV among others. The “others” are HD 1080-60i with a variation of 50i and 24p. What is the difference? “

The file format known as AVI is just a container. It can contain video and audio that are compressed with any number of codecs. The templates let you select the codec to use to encode the video. The NTSC DV and PAL DV templates with use the DV codec. The HD templates will use the Sony YUV codec. Depending on how you want to deliver your final video will determine what file format and codecs you should use.

~jr

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