can vegas pro 9 edit M2TS files?

otis_the_bat wrote on 10/30/2009, 5:21 PM

i record gameplay off my PS3 with a hauppauge PVR. the filetype is M2TS. i have sony vegas movie studio 9 and it cant open/edit the files. would vegas pro 9 be able to edit them?

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busterkeaton wrote on 10/30/2009, 6:20 PM

It should. However, sometimes companies have their own flavor of video codecs. You can download a demo of Sony Vegas 9 and see if it works.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro/techspecs

Supported File Formats

Opens: AA3, AAF, AIF, ASF, AU, AVI, BMP, BWF, CDA, DIG, DLX, DPX, DV, EXR, FLAC, GIF, HDP, IVC, JPG, M2T, M2TS, MOV, Sony MXF, MP3, MP4, M4A, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, MTS, OGG, OMA, PCA, PNG, PSD, QT, R3D, SFA, SND, SWF*, TIFF, TGA, VOX, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV

Saves: AA3, AC3, AIF, ATRAC, AVC, AVI, DPX, EXR, FLAC, HDP, MOV, MP3, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, MP4, M2T, Sony MXF, OGG, PCA, RM, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV

DVD encoding, Video: NTSC 4:3, NTSC Widescreen, PAL 4:3, PAL Widescreen
DVD encoding, Audio: AC-3 5.1 or stereo, PCM

BD encoding, Video: MPEG-2 or AVC, 1080-60i, 1080-50i and 1080-24p
BD encoding, Audio: AC-3 5.1 or stereo, PCM

A. Grandt wrote on 10/31/2009, 2:36 AM

It works, just remember to use the AC-3 audio codec, for some reason the AAC that the Haupphauge HD PVR produces is not recognized by Vegas, if I recall it's not even recognized by VLC and Quicktime, leading me to believe that the AAC codec used by Haupphauge is not exactly up to spec.

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 10/31/2009, 3:19 PM

Tried this today on my PC and it works well m2ts files go back on the TL and will smart render,then when placed in DVD-A in blue ray mode,there is no re-rendering there either

mka wrote on 10/31/2009, 5:47 PM

I'm surprised that Vegas Pro 9.0 (I'm using the new 9.0c) works for some of you on m2ts files. I can import them into a new project but the program dies on me after that. I also tried demuxing into the video (.mpv) part and the audio part (.mpa - AC-3). Any suggestions as to why it doesn't work for me?

Some background: The .m2ts files came from some travel films I shot with a Sony HD camcorder last year. I had created an HD DVD movie at that time, but when HD DVD died I converted the .EVO files into .m2ts files using EVOdemux and tsMuxerGUI. I decided recently that I want to make a real Blu-ray film from these and so I was going to play around with them in Vegas Pro and then subsequently use DVD Architect to author a blu-ray disk.

By the way, since my way of getting the m2ts files doesn't work in Vegas Pro, does anybody know of a way to convert .EVO files to a format Vegas Pro will understand? At the moment I could convert my m2ts files into mt4 files using Nero which Vegas Pro can handle but I don't want to have to convert formats more than once.

P.S. I forgot to say that I am using the 32-bit version of Vegas Pro under Windows XP.

mka wrote on 11/2/2009, 2:04 PM

I discovered why my m2ts files caused problems. They had stereo audio. When I demuxed them, converted the audio to AC-3 with Vegas Pro, and remuxed, then everything seemed fine. I got the audio from an older Sony HD camcorder in 2007 and had converted the .EVO files from the HD DVD disks that I had produced initially to m2ts using some EVO converter software.