AVCHD and TsmuxerR

Weldon wrote on 9/28/2010, 11:22 AM
Hello,
I am new to this forum and I want to thank everyone in advance for any suggestions and ideas. I will try to be as concise as possible. I have been using VMSP 9.0 for six months and love the program. I was working with a digicam that shot 720 and had no real problems editing and rendering video. I recently bought a new camera that shoots 1920x1080 AVCHD and have been having quite a bit of trouble rendering. I have a 2.8ghz quad core processor with 4 gig of RAM on a Windows 7 64bit OS. When trying to render to 1920x1080 AVCHD mp4 I can only edit 2 or 3 clips at a time before VMSP shuts down. I have watched my resource manager and all 4 cores are processing properly at around 97%...very frustrating. I read on another forum the suggestion of doing full edit and then render to .avi format then taking that huge file and rendering again to 1920x1080 mp4 and that seems to work. Resolution looks good and the program doesn't crash however, about 2 minutes into watching this file on Media Player, video starts to skip and freeze though audio seem ok. I read on this site and another about using TsmuxerR and "washing" the video with that to correct the MP issue. Problem I am having is when I add new file into this program it tells me "moov atom not found". So I am at a loss...

Sorry for the long description and I hope someone can give me a valid solution. I am using VMSO 9.0b

Comments

dalemccl wrote on 9/28/2010, 6:21 PM
When you say VMSP shuts down, is it crashing while rendering or while editing? If while rendering, please check this thread and see if it helps:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=12&MessageID=726922
Weldon wrote on 9/28/2010, 7:19 PM
It is crashing when rendering however, I found the thread related to Windows 64 bit and downloaded the CFF explorer and made the changes and it seems to work! Very stoked! Thank all of those responsible for that discovery.

I am still having a problem playing rendered files with Media Player and I downloaded the tsMuxerR program and it is giving me a moov atom error. If I can get that fixed I am one happy man!
dalemccl wrote on 9/29/2010, 1:44 PM
Can you provide more detail about the steps you are taking when you render? Now that you are past the rendering crash, are you rendering an .mp4 file out of Movie Studio, then using the rendered .mp4 file as input to tSmuxeR? I did a short test doing just that and didn't get an error in tsMuxeR. I had never heard of "moov atom" so I googled it and all the hits I checked referred to the .mp4 format so it may be something only used for .mp4. You are probably know more about that than I do.

I normally render my AVCHD clips as Sony AVC .m2ts format out of Movie Studio, then take that file into tSmuxeR and output it as an.m2ts file to fix the stuttering and A/V sync errors. That works well, but maybe you have a specific need for the .mp4 format instead of .m2ts.
Weldon wrote on 9/29/2010, 5:24 PM
This is really exposing my true lack of solid understanding of the render process. I have used MainConceipt at HDV 1080-60i and they work wonderfully...play in Media Player fine and look fine. I have had less success when I render to Sony AVC 1920x1080 NTSC. I was using that setting because the the footage was shot at 1920x1080 and that was the setting most like the original. The .mp4 will not play smoothly in Media Player. I guess it is splitting hairs...
I probably need to look deeper into previous posts regarding rendering to better understand what is best.
Thanks again for your feedback.