John Rofrano
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You want to use 3D Track Motion to do this. Read my tutorial on 3D Track Motion: Changing the Pivot Point and 3D Parent Motion: Moving Planes to give you the basic skills you will need to do this.
The reason people use After Effects for this type of motion is because AE will allow you to see and manipulate all of the tracks in relation to each other at the same. In Vegas you can only work on one track at a time and so it is very tedious to align the tracks but it is possible with enough patience.
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> This seems to be a problem with Vegas itself, although something in this clip is a contributing factor. I hope Sony is working hard to make sure their camcorder files are 100% compatible with their editing software.
I have a CX12 and I have never seen this problem. Vegas Pro 8.0 and 8.1 have never failed to play these files. This definitely sounds like a corrupt file to me and is not the norm.
Also some things don’t make sense in your previous posts:
> I just bought a Sony CX12 camera and shot some test 1440×1080 footage over the holiday.
The CX12 shoots 1920×1080 not 1440×1080.
> It would be disappointing if Sony camcorder m2ts files very often weren’t readable by Sony Vegas.
The CX12 creates MTS files not M2TS files. Where are the M2TS files coming from? The \AVCHD\BDMV\STREAM\ folder on my CX12 contains all MTS files which work fine in Vegas Pro 8.
Perhaps whatever is converting your MTS files to M2TS is part of the problem? As I said, I have never seen this before with my CX12 and so I assume it’s a corrupt file and not an incompatibility.
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> Would like some input how to improve this video:
Yea, never shoot with auto focus. 😉 Always zoom all the way in as far as you intent to go… manually focus… then zoom back out. This will maintain the proper focus throughout the zoom range of the shot.
As for the video you already shot, you could try adding a Sony Unsharp Mask to the footage and see if it can make it a bit sharper but once the details are lost, they are lost for good.
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> JVC says it’s a MS issue(and they have no drivers)
Yup. and unfortunately they are correct!
I don’t have an answer for you but I can offer another data point:
I have the same exact problem with my Sony HVR-DR60 Hard Disk Recording unit. Vista 64 is complaining that it doesn’t know what it is and is asking for drivers (which don’t exist) while Windows XP Pro recognizes it just fine as a hard drive and it works perfectly. Because of this, I have to do all of my captures in XP.
Vista is another Microsoft mess that can’t used for production work without having an XP Pro system nearby to work around all of the problems. (very frustrating) 🙁
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What exactly did you hope to end up with?
As Terry said, your camera is HDV and the files have an M2T extension to signify that they are HDV MPEG-2 Transport streams. Vegas gave you an M2T file. That is all you will get without re-encoding (i.e., the same format as the source).
If you want an MPG file then you need to re-encode the high definition M2T file into an standard definition MPG file by choosing one of the MPEG2 DVD templates.
I’m not sure what Premiere CS2 left you to work with but if it didn’t capture the raw M2T files then I would recapture everything in Vegas so that you have the original M2T’s to work with.
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> I bought Sony Vegas Platinum edition for editing with this camera…
Make sure that you have the latest updates to whatever version of Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum edition that you have.
> Is there anyway to convert the files without losing any quality and keeping the 5.1 audio???
That’s the beauty of digital video; there is no conversion required. You can just drag and drop the files from the camera HDD right onto your PC hard drive and use them in Movie Studio. Just make sure your project is set up for 5.1 Surround.
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> Been reading alot of post and understand i can’t use Vegas 8 on a 64bit system
Not sure where you read that but it’s not true. Vegas Pro 8.0 runs great on Vista 64 in 32-bit mode. Vegas Pro 8.1 is a 64-bit application and so runs natively on Vista 64 in 64-bit mode.
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Usually this is a system driver issue. What does the blue screen say? There is an error at the top of the screen that will tell you what happened. Something like IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN or something like that. You need to look this up at the Microsoft web site and see what it says. Sometimes at the bottom there is the name of the DLL that caused the problem. You need to contact the supplier of that DLL and report the error and see if they have a fix.
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What system software do you have running on your PC? I used to use Restore It and I loved the program but it caused Sony Vegas to not install! Apparently it was trying to backup the files as they were being installed because it monitors changes to your PC.
Try stopping all other programs on your PC. Stop your antivirus and any other monitoring software and then try the install again.
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All I can recommend is that you disable device control in the preferences. You will have to manually press play on the JVC and record in Vegas but it should alleviate the problem.
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