[Rune Letrud]

[John Rofrano] “Yup. Raising or lowering the volume in the mix should definitely affect the rendered volume. It looks like it might be something unique to your computer.”

THAT would not be the first time 😉
Researches would have a field-day with all the weird stuff that’s happened uniquely to my computers over the years.

Thank’s for trying, though! I’ll get some more examples together and contact Sony.

[Rune Letrud]

Okay, just tried that.

Still looks and sounds like the audio is lower.

Shouldn’t it be amplified in render when I push the volume up in either the track or the mixer?

[Rune Letrud]

[Rune Letrud] “In the case of the mp4 files I actually”

That was weird, my message got cut.
Don’t think I tried saying anything valuable at the end there, so just ignore that line 😉

[Rune Letrud]

[Stephen Mann] “Are you saying that you can’t import the MOV files into Vegas?”

Sadly, yes. Look at my answer to John just above this.
I spent two weeks fighting with Quicktime and .mov last summer, and did everything I could find suggested on this forum and several other threads – including reinstalling both my computer and trying several versions of QT.
Finally I just gave up and focused on finishing the project instead.

So I will have to use something else to convert the .mov files to something that Vegas will play.

And the same thing for the .mp4 files, which is also converted to mpg because of their size – my computer is slightly old and can’t handle a project with so many large files.

I tried using a couple of the mp4 files directly, but I still got the interlace issue, I just tried replacing two files without diving to much into it at that point in time.

In the case of the mp4 files I actually

[Rune Letrud]

[John Rofrano] “If you are using a modern version of Vegas Pro after 9.0.e you can use the latest version of QuickTime. If you are using an older that 9.0e version of Vegas Pro you must use QuickTime 7.6.2 or earlier.”

Yeah, I tried last summer when I edited that years festival movie.
Had the same problem, but never did anything about it.
Spent two weeks installing and re-installing, following a lot of your tips on this site. Never got it to work.
I’m running v9.0 (build 563)

I don’t remember exactly what happened, but Vegas kept crashing and crashing, and just didn’t want to play with .MOV
Finally I just gave up, converted them to mpg and uninstalled Quicktime for good.

[Rune Letrud]

Thank you!

Also, I found my notes and found out why I had used AnyVideoConverter, and that’s because I spent two weeks installing and reinstalling computer and Vegas to get it to handle .MOV.

I still can’t get it to do that, so I don’t know how I can convert to DV-AVI if AVC isn’t usable…

[Rune Letrud]

[John Rofrano] “In your project properties, what do you have your Deinterlace Method set to?”

Deinterlace method is “Blend Fields” and Full resolution rendering quality is set to “Good” (don’t know if that matters?)

[Rune Letrud]

Thanks a lot!

I’ll start by converting a couple of the files that I know are giving me grief, and just render a few minutes to see if the results are better. (Which I’m guessing it would be)

Would you advice that I convert ALL files to the same format before I render to DVD, or just the ones being the troublemakers?

Bear in mind that this is just a hobby project, it’s a 4.5 hour concert dvd, and a 1 hour festival-movie cut from the concert with commentary and additional cuts not used during editing of the songs.
It’s to be distributed on YouTube and as DVDs to the musicians (about 50 copies).
So this is no big issue, I’m just trying to get as good a result as possible for my own mental health’s sake, and using this as a learning experience.

[Rune Letrud]

Hi John!
Thank you for taking the time to look at my problem! It is really appreciated.

The reason I converted with AVC was that I just wanted to batch convert a lot of files in one go without needing to mess around too much.
I offcourse see that it was foolish. BUT it is possible to rectify, as I can convert these files to correct formats and just point the project to the new files one by one. Will take some time, but I brought that upon myself, didn’t I ? 😉

Why I chose MPEG2 was because I thought that would be the best format when I’m rendering to DVD.

As I said my main camerashot is .MOD, then it’s quite a few .AVI from two cams shooting on DV-tape.
And then there’s two HD-cams, one shooting MOV, the other MP4.
The last cam I’ve decided to use clips from ends up as .MTS, and I see now that I’ve converted those to .AVI for some reason or another.

The 50fps to 25fps was also converted with AVC, to match the 720×576 of my main camerashot.

I need to check the Deinterlace Method in a bit, as I’m rendering another project at the moment. (that one without any issues, thankfully)

What would be the best format to convert all these files to you recon?