[Geoff Sherwood]

Thanks for all the excellent suggestions, Wayne. Although I am strictly an amateur when it comes to filming and editing, I have been using and adoring Sony Vegas for over 10 years now, and very happy to learn – with your indispensable help – that I have quite a few good rendering options with Vegas 13 that will retain almost all of the pristine quality of my MTS source videos. Now I can give myself that belated Christmas present and upgrade the trial version to the full version.

There may not be many amateur users of Sony Vegas Pro, but if there are, we would all benefit from a FAQ or tutorial by some of the experts like yourself on the best ways to render MTS and M2TS files, which are ubiquitous nowadays. Thank you again, Wayne. You’ve made my day!

Best Regards,
Geoff

[Geoff Sherwood]

Wayne,

I changed the De-interlace Method from Blend to Interpolate and it made a significant improvement to the quality of the rendered video. Now I’m getting somewhere!

Best Regards,
Geoff

[Geoff Sherwood]

Wayne,

I downloaded and installed the trial version of Sony Vegas 13 and it works fine with the MTS files as long as I render to AVCHD 1920×1080 60i. I lose hardly any quality from the source file, which is MTS (MPEG-2 transport stream), 1920×1080, 29fps interlaced, upper field first; Audio is 48 kHz, Stereo, Dolby AC-3. But I get all kinds of motion blur when I render to any progressive format. I set rendering quality to Best, Gaussian motion blur, and blend fields.

I selected Match Project Video Settings, and I tried both Smart Resample and Disable Resample, but no luck.

What would be the recommend settings to render as progressive and eliminate (or greatly minimize) motion blur?

Best Regards,
Geoff

[Geoff Sherwood]

Thank you so much for the quick response, Wayne. I’ll try what you suggested and will let you know how it goes.

Best regards,
Geoff