Vegas 9.0 has problems?

[Norman Willis]

9.0 has problems rendering in AVCHD.
9.0a has problems with the Media Generators (they disappear without warning).
If you have 8 and it works for you, then that might be a good option until 9.0b.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Shawn Bossick]

[Norman Willis] “9.0 has problems rendering in AVCHD.”

norm shawn here again, could you explain this maybe for me, I have been tring to figure this out since friday, about using AVCHD in vegas, already bought my new camera, a Panasonic HMC 150 records in .MTS files,AVCHD, I have vegas 8.b I heared suposingly sony fixed some of the issues with editing in AVCHD, I would like to be able to edit in my native file format .MTS then render out to whatever I need at that time is that possible, in any version of vegas ? I also here people talking about M2T files, and M2TS, but all the searching I’ve done I”ve heard nothing about the format I have MTS PLEASE TELL ME THERE’S HOPE

[Norman Willis]

Shawn:

There’s hope.

I don;t really know 8. I got started with 9.0. 9.0 has problems rendering AVCHD, but 9.0a fixed that bug.

Both 9.0 and 9.0a edits fine with .mts. The preview window gets a little choppy. With a Q9650 CoreDuo Quad at 3.0 GHz, all four cores run at 95%. With Cineform NeoScene the cores run at +/- 57%.

If you want to edit in .mts, I would strongly recommend a Q9650 CoreDuo Quad at 3.0GHz. $320.00 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115130

I cannot imagine trying to edit AVCHD with a dual core.

I also recommend NeoScene, but that’s up to you.

You can also try DivideFrame, but it is buggy (at least on Core i7 machines).

I don’t know why you would want to stay with .mts instead of converting to .avi, but again that is up to you.

$320.00 for a quad core processor and you should be up and running.

And RAM is cheap. I’d stuff as much RAM as I could get in there.

Are you using 32 or 64 bit Windows?

I hope that helps.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

>>I would like to be able to edit in my native file format .MTS then render out to whatever I need at that time is that possible, in any version of vegas ?

Vegas Pro 9.0a works with AVCHD just fine, with a q9650 CoreDuo Quad at 3.0 GHz. A core i7 is even better, but that would call for a new motherboard.

The only issue with 9.0a is that the Media Generators have a bad bug, but Sony is promising a fix soon. In the meantime I do all my titling in Photoshop (thanks to Mike K.’s help).

Please let me know if I can be of any more help.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Craig Simpson]

I disagree, I have 9.0a and have major problems.

The only way i can get a successful export is using stereo aac and main concept mp4 video. Anything else results in a file where the video plays ok for a bit then goes slow then really fast and its out of sync.

I have tried loads of different settings etc and cant sort it.

Any advice??

By the way I have a panasonic sd20 camcorder and am running vegas pro 9.0a on vista 64 bit.

[Shawn Bossick]

NORM, thanks for responding again, Im on windows xp 32 bit, the reason I think I want to edit in MTS is I already, within vegas converted my .MTS files to .AVI, and they didnt look the same, yes at that point the system ran smooth, but the quality of the look came down, I’ll explain, .MTS looked sharp, after conversion, .AVI not as sharp, going off of my own test only, I concluded, stick with your native file until all editing is done, render down and convert once, is this not correct thinking ? also I went to Cineform Neoscene’s site last nite and read, again maybe Im wrong but that converts your .MTS files to there Cineform .AVI maybe its a better conversion then when sony does it, all I know Is Im trying to edit In my native file, I will tommorow get the Q9650 quad processor and as much ram as I can, my mother board is an ASEUS PQ5, THANK YOU and everyone for all your HELP

[Norman Willis]

Shawn,

Yes, Cineform quality and colorspace is better than .mts.

If you ask me, you should take things in stages. Get the Q9650, the Arctic Silver CPU grease, and then have someone help you install it. Then see what you have.

After you know what you’ve got, and all is stable, then you might set a restore point, and try the free trial download of Cineform NeoScene. Then you can see whether or not you want to spend $99.00 on it. Does that make sense?

But definitely do as the Spirit leads you.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

What is your system?

Please see John Rofrano’s blog on ideal hardware configurations.

https://www.johnrofrano.com/pcequipment.htm

If that does not help, how old is your Windows install?

Sometimes a fresh install of everything helps. I had a bad install of Vista SP2, and nothing worked right until I uninstalled and reinstalled.

I hope that helps.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
servant@nazareneisrael.org