AVCHD rendering does not work

kbaybob wrote on 11/8/2009, 10:10 AM
In my experience AVCHD rendering does not work in Vegas Pro Trial version, Vegas Movie Studio 9 Ultimate, in 32 bit or 64 bit versions in 32 bit or 64 bit OSs, whether XP or Windows 7. I have found that my video starts running at slow speed while the audio continues merrily along its way at normal speed, getting farther and farther ahead of the video as time goes by. I have tried rendering my 5.1 project as such, and also as stereo, and the results are the same. 1080X1920 30i 5.1 surround are the project parameters. I have changed the memory settings in Movie Studio to allow greater than 2gb of memory (which at least allows render to take place, unlike before I changed those settings), and in Vegas Pro trial version rendering AVCHD does not crash; it just doesn't work. I AM able to render in MPG2 for a DVD, and that works fine.

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srode wrote on 11/10/2009, 3:27 AM
What's the source? I have no problems rendering to AVCHD in Vegas Pro 9
ushere wrote on 11/10/2009, 3:39 AM
your experience seems somewhat dismal. fortunately, for the vast majority of us, vegas seems to work very well.

as srode asked, what source, what pc specs, etc.,?

musicvid10 wrote on 11/10/2009, 10:00 AM
More important, how are you playing back your rendered AVCHD?

Quicktime always plays out of sync on my machines, and video frames may stall in the Vegas preview depending on your cpu and preview size. Neither indicates in itself a problem with AVCHD rendered in Vegas.

Do the rendered files play back out of sync in VLC or FLV Player? As previously asked, what are the machine specs?
ingvarai wrote on 11/10/2009, 11:56 AM
There is something wrong with 9c 64 bit, at least.
I have used Vegas and AVCHD for more than a year, and have not seen it before I upgraded to 9c.
I have posted another thread about this (Nesting projects and a possible bug in 64 bit 9c).

I also had this strange out of sync or what you would call it, when using 9c 64. The video starts normal, then starts to rock back and forth in time, like heavy use of the scrub wheels we had when editing analog video.

If you want to see something similar, Adobe After effects has it. For some reason, AE does not support AVCHD (not Panasonic) and yo get this "effect" there. But I have not seen it in Vegas before 9c.
Ingvar