[Dale Mcclelland]

Maybe you are already aware of this, but Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 only utilizes a CUDA GPU when rendering Sony AVC. That would explain why GPU usage is 0% when rendering with mainconcept.

[Dale Mcclelland]

I’m glad it worked for you. The problem has been reported to Sony Creative Software. Hopefully they will be able to determine what causes this and will fix it so the tsmuxer work-around won’t be needed.

[Dale Mcclelland]

I had the same problem with version 9 platinum, and still have it with version 10 HD Platinum. It seems to occur with AVCHD clips when rendered by Sony AVC to .m2ts files. It may be limited to Windows 7 64 bit systems, but I am not sure about that. (The few other reports I have seem from people with this problem were all using Windows 7 64 bit.)

Earlier this year I found a solution that someone posted here (or maybe it was in another forum). It works every time for me. I routinely apply the solution for every final Sony AVC render from VMS. I don’t remember who found the solution, but I am grateful to that person. Here is what works for me:

Run the file rendered by VMS through a program named tsmuxerGUI. It runs fast (doesn’t re-render) and somehow corrects the problem. In the tsmuxerGUI interface, add your VMS-rendered file with the “Add” button, keep all default settings except select .m2ts as the output type in the little buttons near the bottom, designate the output location where you want the file to go, and click “Start Muxing”. The resulting file should be free of stuttering and A/V sync problems.

Of course, it is possible that your problem is being caused by something else, but I think it would be worth trying this solution.
tsmuxer is freeware available here:

https://www.smlabs.net/tsMuxer/tsMuxeR_1.10.6.zip


As I recall, it doesn’t install itself in Windows or change any registry settings, it just runs from the .exe and the other files that are included in the .zip.

[Dale Mcclelland]

Regarding John Rofrano’s suggestion of youtube, there’s a guy on youtube with a user name of “montagical” that has many good Vegas training videos. I watched several and learned quite a bit when Vegas was new to me. He should turn up if you search youtube for “Sony Vegas training”.

There are some good ones posted by other people too, but there are also some that are a waste of time.

The free VASST videos are excellent and their presentation is very professional.

[Dale Mcclelland]

I just noticed that you said you have the XR550V. I was thinking of the XR520V when I said it was the same as my XR500V except for the hard disk size. I see now that the XR550V is a newer model than the 500/520, so my comments may not apply. Sorry.

[Dale Mcclelland]

I am using the XR500V with Movie Studio platinum 9.0b with no problems (my OS is Win 7 64 bit). As you probably know, the XR500V is the same as the XR550V except it has a smaller hard drive.

You might want to go to the Sony Creative Software Movie Studio forum and look around. There is a work-around you need to do to avoid crashes when rendering AVCHD in Movie Studio. Search on “CFFExplorer” if you are using a 64 bit OS. If you are using a 32 bit OS, also search on BCDEdit (32 bit OS’s need two work-arounds).

[Dale Mcclelland]

It is a little hard to find on their website. I don’t see it mentioned in the product description, but the track limitation is listed in the version comparison chart on Sony Creative Software’s website at the link below.

Per the comparison chart, Movie Studio Platinum is limited to 4 video and 4 audio tracks. The Pro version allows unlimited tracks. Here is the link: (Sorry, I can’t figure out how to make this a “clickable” link):

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/moviestudiohd/compare

[Dale Mcclelland]

Thanks for the reply. Hitting the B key doesn’t seem to do anything so I must be missing something.

This is Movie Studio Platinum 9. Based on the SCS Vegas product comparison webpage, I thought audio busing was only available in Vegas Pro?

[Dale Mcclelland]

Thanks. I thought perhaps some of the content, such as the “borders” were intended to appear internally on the program menus so they could be used by DVDA in DVD menus. Similar to the way transitions appear on the MVS transitions menu. And I was not familiar with the .pca extension of the music files in the content folder of the CD.

Turns out the .pca files seem to be a proprietary Sony music format, but can added to the time line just like an .mp3 or .wav. I was hoping they would be files that VMS could use to automatically adjust the duration of the music to fit the length of the video, with a proper ending, as opposed to just manually fading it out or looping it. (Similar to what the SonicFire product does with SmartSounds. And I think maybe that is what Cinescore does but it is no longer included with VMS like it used to be.)

Based on your message, since all these content files are just media files that can be imported and added to the time line, I will copy them to the hard drive in an organized location, as you suggested.

Thanks again. I really appreciate your help. I’ve learned a lot already about MVS Platinum from reading forums, and from UTube video tutorials. But there is still a lot to learn. This product has an amazing amount of functionality for $75.

[Dale Mcclelland]

I received the retail package today from Amazon, entered the serial numbers into the trial versions, and registered with Sony. The installation CD has a folder named “Content”. It contains four sub-folders: Borders, Illustrations, Music, Title Cards.

By searching the hard drive, I confirmed that the files in these folders do not currently exist on my hard drive, so the VMS and DVDA trials did not install them. I can’t figure out where to copy these files to in order to make them available to the programs.

Running the installation program does not provide an option to install content only. I clicked on the menu option to “Install VMS” just to see if it would then give me an option to install content only. It didn’t. It said VMS is already installed so if I want to re-install it, I should first remove the current installation.

I’d rather not uninstall and re-install because I would loose my settings, but as far as I can tell this is the only way I will be able to get the content installed in the proper location so VMS and/or DVDA can use them.

Unless someone knows which VMS/DVDA folders I should copy the CD’s content folders/files to?