[Denise Tucker]

As long as you’re running Vista 64-bit or Windows 7, you should be fine (though I am far from an expert!). As far as I can find, only 2 of us reported this issue with .m2t files and we both were running Vegas Pro 9 64-bit, on WinXP 64-bit… which Sony doesn’t support.

[Denise Tucker]

Nhat,

I have also been using the 32-bit Vegas on WinXP 64 for a number of years (since version 5…totally pre-64bit Vegas) but when I got a new WinXP 64 workstation, I just went ahead and installed the 64-bit Vegas, without looking at the Vegas Pro 9.0 box sitting under my desk which lists the system requirements. I didn’t run into any problems until I got the .m2t files to work with. I had started to go down the same workaround road you tried… rendering the audio track out as .mp3, though I was doing it in Sound Forge. I think that would have worked, but the nature of the work I’m doing is making a lot of short clips for the web from the longer files. I think that having the audio an actual separate file would make that process pretty tricky. One of the other things I tried, that didn’t work, was using VLC player to convert the .m2t files to something I could play and hear in Vegas. I’m not sure if that didn’t work because I was not selecting the right combination of settings, or that the VLC convert function doesn’t work well… I found a number of comments to that effect on the web.

I’m hoping that I won’t run into the low memory issues you are reporting. I’m not doing any Blu-ray work (yet, anyway), so hopefully I will be ok on that count.

I suppose the real answer here is to upgrade the operating system.

[Denise Tucker]

Are you running the 64-bit version of Vegas? If so that may be your problem. According to the system requirements, it isn’t supported on WinXP 64-bit… have to go to Vista 64-bit or Windows 7 to use the Vegas 64-bit.

I was having exactly the same problem you report. I uninstalled Vegas Pro 9.0 64-bit and installed the 32-bit version. That solved the problem. The .m2t files now have the audio and play fine… no crashing.

[Denise Tucker]

Ok..had a DOH! moment today. My problem was that I was running Vegas Pro 9.0 64-bit on a Windows XP 64-bit system. Went back and double-checked the Vegas system requirements and saw that the 64-bit version is not supported on Windows XP 64-bit. Only the 32-bit version is supported on WinXP 64-bit.

So I uninstalled the 64-bit version, installed the 32-bit version and my problems disappeared.

[Denise Tucker]

I am having the same problem…except in Vegas Pro 9.0e.
Just got an HVR-7ZU and recorded my first clips to a CF card. The clips played back fine in the camera, but when I transferred to the PC (an HP Z800 Xeon, 64-bit Win XP) and dropped them on the timeline in Vegas Pro 9.0e (64-bit version), I see a flat line in the audio track and when I try to play it, Vegas crashes. If I mute the audio track the video track will play with no crash.

I’ve also tried capturing the video from the tape, using the Vegas HDV Capture, which captures the video as .m2t files. Same issue with flatline audio, but playing the clip in the Vegas timeline doesn’t make Vegas crash.

Anyone have an idea of what’s going on here?