[Hari Viswanathan]

Hi Stan,

I’m not an expert with vegas either but I’ll tell you what my experience has been. I cannot get vegas 8.0c to work with my canon avchd files. Apparently quite a few people have this same problem but not everyone. I have an intel quad and from reading on the sony forum many with the quad-avchd-vegas8.0c have problems. I wrote sony and they say they have duplicated the problem in house and will most likely release an update. But they won’t say when or if they really will.

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=612537&Replies=94

So what do I do. I went back to sony vegas 8.0b. It renders avchd at 1440×1080 just fine without crashing. I then have successfully been making bluray projects with dvd architect 5.0. They play fine in my blu-ray player. Another nice feature is that I can burn bluray to dvd-r’s and still play hd video on my blu-ray player. The dvd-r only hold 30 minutes of hd footage but this serves me fine since I mostly have home movies that are short. Plus they are much cheaper than bd-r’s. To do this I followed the instructions on this forum. Hope this helps and let me know if you have more questions.

https://camcorderinfo.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=140970

Good luck

Hari

[Hari Viswanathan]

Same problem for me as well. I can render video from a canon HF10 on 8.0b at 1440×1080. However, with 8.0c 1440×1080 and 1920×1080 both crash. The project does not crash at the same point of the render each time. First time it crashes at 10%, second 5% and third 12%. I have restored my vegas to 8.0b since I can’t get anything to work on 8.0c. My machine is a dell quad processor with 4 GB ram. Any ideas?

A few questions about the upgrade based on earlier posts:
1. Is the 1920×1080 really an improvement since the bit rate is similar to before?
2. Is the bit rate the main parameter since the 1920 vs 1440 is just a different par ratio? Or is there real extra information in the 1920 render?
3. For 8.0b I’m not sure what audio setting to use. It seems to render a m2ts file, I need to select 5.1 surround under audio options. When I play this m2ts file back with the pixela player on my computer, the audio seems to mostly playback on the right channel. I think the HF10 just records in stereo (not 5.1 surround), however I can’t figure out how to get vegas to render m2ts stereo (8.0c has this option but this crashes for me).

Thanks.
Hari