[John Oconnor]

I have had like problems with the “.mov” video coming out of a Nikon cool pix – This is a “quicktime” format. I was advised by tech at Apple/Quicktime” that I should convert if I wanted to edit and an excellent converter software is “QuickTime Pro” =$30 download from Apple – It will convert to many other more “editable” codecs including AVCHD and various MPEG’s. I have not gotten back to trying it but if mov is a “quicktime” format then I would expect Apple and QuickTime Pro to know how to deal with it…
There is also a thing called “Large Address Aware” which can be applied to you VMS10 (assuming win 7 32 bit -NA for 64 bit)and will actually allow VMS to use more of all that RAM you have = a cause of lots of rendering and writing crashes – details on it are over in the Sony VMS forums. “Works for me” John

John O

[John Oconnor]

For “Pro” – Take a look in the following: Sony Creative software has some paper and DVD based training material, as does “vasst.com” , take a look in Amazon -they really cover the map for this kind of stuff. “Muvipix.com” has been an adobe place but beginning to take on Sony products… Assume (I am at the “studio Level”) that you can get the product manuals in PDF from Sony Creative Software support.

John O

[John Oconnor]

Steve, Got it – thanks for your help -I will go away and see what I can do .. John

John O

[John Oconnor]

Steve,
Thanks for all of that -will take me a bit to study and then try.
Menus : this is a test drill on the .mov files – in order to keep it simple this is a no menu (single play) video … only additions I ever do in DVDA are the menu’s….

Does any of what you suggest change if this is an HD project??

John O

[John Oconnor]

Did as you suggeted = 10.5 min video on the VNS time line -rendered with properties set to match media settings” – got the .m2v and W64 file which I plugged into a new project in DVDArch & set properties to AVC ……. and got exactly the same error as earlier … I was in “preparation” not even trying for a BD/DVD burn ???

Let me ask a “help me understand” question .. If I start a project with .mov (= mpeg4 1920×1080 source files and render them I get m2v and w64 files – using these as input to DVDArch am I restricted in what format I can output from DVDACH – can I go AVCHD or MPEG —or ??? – or do I really just not understand this at all….
Thanks, John

John O

[John Oconnor]

Thanks for the reply,
No it is all in this one PC – it is a tiny little 2 min video. As I said – ever since I have tried to deal with these “,mov” files I have had nothing but headaches – first I could burn a disc but it would only play back on a Blue ray player – I have now moved on to not being able to burn the disc. Sicne the PC would not play the Mpeg videos I tried to burn it as an AVCHD video as I have been lucky with that format in the past – but now get the buffer under run error -and this is while trying to make the .iso file -not even trying to burn the disc ???
It has been suggested that I get Quick Time Pro and convert the .mov file to Mpeg ?? but as Nikon says it is already a Mpeg file. If I check out one of the .mov files with “Mediainfo” – it tells me it is a “MPEG-4(QuickTime) 179MiB 1mn 43s file” = one video stream AVC and one Audio Stream ACC
I know next to nothing about how these format /Codec et al work or do not work well together.
Any thoughts would be apprecaited – or is time to punt on the .mov files ??? John

John O