[Calla Bodnar]

It is set to blend fields, so I don’t think thats the issue. Might just be an issue with VLC media player.

[Calla Bodnar]

Actually, wait! I just tried the same file in windows media player rather than VLC and it looks awesome! No bar problems! Not sure why, but as long as its fixed someway I think I’m satisfied! Thanks so much everyone!

[Calla Bodnar]

I really appreciate your responses! I changed it to match my source and saw a huge difference in frame rate that is definitely on par with the original video! But the video itself rendered like this:

there are these bars across everything, which is a completely new thing.
these are the render settings:

[Calla Bodnar]

Thanks for the response. I’m not sure what constitutes as good, or decent but my specs are as followed:

8 gigs Ram
i7-3630QM intel core processor with a 2.40 GHz
64 bit operating system
windows 8
some 600 gigs of memory, and my video card I think is an intel(R) HD graphics 4000

I’ve never had an issue like this before but then again this is the first time I’ve tried to use a camera of this quality with sony vegas.

[Calla Bodnar]

After a bit of snooping around I figured it wasn’t the converting, I noticed the .mts is still being used, which I assume is virtually the same as avchd. I also realize the preview is just a preview, but even when I rendered the clip in sony vegas, no effects or anything, on pretty high rendering settings I think, I put the two clips side by side (the original and rendered version) and, though it was hard to spot at first, there was an difference in quality/frame rate. I used both the basic windows player to play it and VLC media player, both showed the same difference. My original, though the shot in and of itself is very shaky/fast at times looked very constant, while the rendered version didnt look as fluid, which I am assuming is from a loss of frames(?).

[Calla Bodnar]

can anyone recommend a free converter even?