Another way to rescue m2t video with errors

Laurence wrote on 6/9/2008, 9:20 AM
I have found another way to rescue m2t HDV video when it has Vegas crashing errors. That is to use the program MpegVCR from womble.com and resave the m2t as a regular mpeg2 file. Doing this strips the transport info off the file but still smart-renders the mpeg video so there is no loss.

I don't know if this works all the time, but it did work on a clip I was just having trouble with yesterday. It also seems to be better than Mpeg2Repair in that I'm not having trouble with smart-rendering the clip into new projects.

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blink3times wrote on 6/9/2008, 2:44 PM
Laurence, have you tried capturing in MF6? I ask because I'm pretty sure MF6 captures as MPG instead of M2T. Might be a way to save a step or 2.

I think I'll give this a try later.... if I get the time anyway (pretty busy right now).
ushere wrote on 6/9/2008, 5:29 PM
on the one file i had problems with - crashing vegas at one (repeatable) point - running it through mpeg2repair worked fine. since it hasn't happened again, i'll keep my fingers crossed, but if it does, does running it through womble (which i have) change anything else other than the header?

leslie
Laurence wrote on 6/9/2008, 7:51 PM
With the Womble MpegVCR, you can save it as an m2t file which just changes the header or you can save it as an mpeg2 file which strips away the extra transport info and just leaves the video. Either way the video itself is smart-rendered.

It seems to me that it is quite likely that the errors that so many people are having problems with are in the transport data rather than the video data and that is why I believe that this may be such a good approach. As I said, I'm not sure about this yet. So far it looks good though.