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Vegas Plat 9 1080P 60FPS WMV Codec Issue
Hello all
I am trying to encode a 1080P 60FPS video in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9. I have had success using Sony AVC and choosing 10Mbps.
However, when I try to render the video with Windows media video at the same settings (except not CBR, I use VBR Quality 85), Vegas will stop rendering at the same point in the video. I tried another video and it too stopped rendering (CPU utilization goes to zero and the progress bar sits there and elapsed time keeps counting and estimated keeps going up but framers are no longer produced) at a certain point. The point at which it stops rendering (no errors, just sits there and I can click cancel which then freezes Vegas) depends on which video I use.
Both videos I tested will work fine with the first settings I mentioned above.
Specs
Core i7 860
4GB DDR3
GTX 580
Win7
2 1TB Black Caviar WD HD’s (no raid usage)Thanks and let me know if you need more info.
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5 Replies
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I use Vegas Pro with 1080p60 mts files from my TM700 and render to wmv and mp4, both at 1080p60 28mbps all the time. You will loose quality using Sony AVC 10mbps. Are you making a custom project setting to handle the 60p? Also the mts files are 28mbps and Sony AVC is limited to 10mbps so I use MainConcept and make a custom render setting as well, set to 28mbps. The videos look great. If your not making custom settings, and need help doing so, let me know and I will post screenshots on how to do it. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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I’ve made sure I set the project settings myself (no template). I choose 1920×1080. I manually set FPS to 60. Aspect ratio to square. Progressive. As for the codec settings, I choose the same resolution and FPS and aspect ratio and progressive. For video I choose VBR with a quality of 85. For audio I chose VBR 44khz 16bit Quality 90.
I don’t want to use Sony AVC. That’s why I made the thread 🙂
Also, I should mention that I have tried dynamic RAM preview set to zero and setting it to only 1 thread. And another strange thing, while it is rendering (before it stops at the same spot 710 frames in on the one video, and 620 on the other) it will pauses every 60 frames, basically every “second” of video time. It sits there for about 3 seconds, and then proceeds to render again at a good pace but then stopping again at 120 seconds, then 180, etc. Even if my main issue of the rendering stopping, this silly pausing every 60 frames adds a chunk of render time.
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Well I can render successfully when I set the WMV codec to 30FPS. Not sure why 60FPS is an issue.
Now my only issue is why it pauses every “second” of footage time. When I was rendering at 60FPS, it would render 60 frames quickly then stop for about 3 seconds, then it would render another 60 frames and stop for another 3. Well it is doing the same thing at 30FPS but does this every 30 frames. It will render 30 frames, stop for 3 seconds, render another 30 frames, stop for 3 seconds, and so on.
Is this normal for WMV? I don’t remember it doing this before on my Vista machine. My new win 7 machine is faster in all aspects so it’s not performance. I think it is a configuration issue.
Any ideas?
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Brandon:
Did you ever get this figured out? I’m having the same problem (win7, Vegas 11 & 12). The WM encoder renders 30 frames and then pauses for 2-3 seconds. Some of my files are very long (4 hours) and I figure it would take about 4 hours to render instead of 13 hours without this pausing. Seems like the encoder is compiling for every block of 30 frames.
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Wow, forgot I posted this.
Nope, I never did resolve it. In fact, I gave up on this hobby and haven’t gone back to it. IT was truly an annoying issue.
I am glad I didn’t try to get a new version of Vegas either, since you are having the same problem as well.
I wish you luck in figuring it out. If you do, it would be nice to see how you did it!
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