HDV users: please read

ForumAdmin wrote on 7/2/2008, 12:22 PM

Greetings loyal users,

Some but not all of you have been running into problems with your HDV .m2t source material. For those with HDV .m2t problems, the symptoms typically are some combination of

a) black frames

b) red frames

c) Vegas instability

As we all know there are many types of HDV .m2t files, and the way the files are captured differs somewhat between capture apps. This makes testing and debugging pretty difficult as you can imagine.

However, rest assured we have been working hard on resolving the issues above, and we have a new HDV reader for Vegas Pro 8 in QA now which resolves these problems with all test media we have. This reader will be part of our forthcoming general Vegas 8.0c update. Before we release Vegas 8.0c to the public, we are interested in hearing your feedback on this new HDV reader, and would like your help testing it prior to the Vegas 8.0c update.

If you are interested in testing a pre-release version of this HDV reader, please fill out your system specs, update your contact info with an email address where we could reach you directly, and respond to this sticky thread that you would like to participate. We will post back here once the beta reader is available and provide download and installation instructions. Please do not try to get this via our Customer Service group or to contact us directly about this pre-release reader. This forum is the place for us all to communicate about it.

We look forward to working with you, we want to get this right for you, stay tuned and we'll make this available very soon.

cheers-

DH

SCS Dev

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winrockpost wrote on 8/21/2008, 11:22 AM

......Jtansek2 - please read before posting, the info was about 1/3 of the way down.
lol,, he would still be reading.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 8/21/2008, 12:11 PM

alright, admittedly, I can't blame a guy for not taking the time to read through a 200+ long list of posts, but I usually just do a page search for key words to find info. F3 or CTRL+F and then type in the words "Forum Admin" and you can find it pretty fast, because you see other posts from the admin and that's a fast search option.

Dave

NickHope wrote on 8/21/2008, 7:09 PM

I've been shooting a lot of 1080-60i HDV with my Sony Z1P and capturing with HDVSplit 0.77beta.

With the new HDV reader .dll I get a small percentage of files that have a corrupt frame or two within a couple of frames of the end. The corrupted frames look like the ones below. Usually it's just like the 2nd one with green artefacts but in this case there were 2 consecutive frames as shown. The corrupted frames DO NOT show up in TMPGenc Xpress so it appears to be a Vegas Pro problem.

Unfortunately I'm on a miniscule bandwidth here so I can't send a file but I'd be happy to air-mail this and other clips on a DVD-R if someone from Sony contacts me with a name and mailing address. I also have clips that read with red frames with the old .dll but don't load at all with the new .dll

TeeJay wrote on 8/22/2008, 1:34 AM

Nick, this might be a typo but your Sony Z1P (PAL) will be 1080-50i, not 1080-60i. Could this frame rate mis-match be at the root of your problem? I have successfully captured hours and hours of HDV from my Z1P directly with the Vegas HDV Cap utility. I had a minor problem for the first time this week that was sorted out by downloading MPEG-VCR as suggested by Laurence and running my clip through its "repair GOP" utility.

Noggle wrote on 8/22/2008, 5:46 PM

I would like to test out this beta feature. However, I tried this several times:

"Download the file "M2tsplug.zip" from this ftp site:
ftp://md-ftp.sonycreativesoftware.com
username: scsdev
password: oh7e2McT"

There seems to be nothing there. Have you discontinued access to the file?

Regards,
Noggle

NickHope wrote on 8/23/2008, 9:33 PM

Nick, this might be a typo but your Sony Z1P (PAL) will be 1080-50i, not 1080-60i. Could this frame rate mis-match be at the root of your problem?
Actually Teejay the Z1P can be booted up in 50i/PAL mode or 60i/NTSC mode. The setting is in the menu. Currently I'm using it in 60i mode as my customers are mostly from the states.

Whitlam wrote on 8/28/2008, 7:01 AM

Downloaded and installed - it fixed 2 problems.

Firstly no more black frames (hooray)

Secondly it fixed the seemingly random problem Vegas had after it had rendered HDV to m2ts (1440 /1080) files where it couldn't read the video - only sound. The video played perfectly with WMP, and opened normally in VSM 9, but in Vegas 8 Pro only opened as sound files.

Vista 64 with a Sony Sr12E video camera

Whitlam wrote on 8/28/2008, 9:43 AM

1 step forward, 2 backwards.

dll works fine, except now Vegas constantly freezes every time a new clip is added to a project. Even small ones cause it stop.

Whitlam wrote on 8/28/2008, 10:05 AM

Just copied the old .dll back in - no more freezes / crashes - however back to the black frames and no video on some renders.

Still very problematic with m2ts files.

system details:

Vista 64 Ulitmate SP1
processor: Intel Q9550 quad core
ram: 4gb DDR-2 1067mhz (pc 8500)
mobo: gigabyte X48 DS5
hard drives: 9 (4.9tb) - 7 SATA + 2 IDE
graphic card: Nvidia 8800gts

Vegas 8.0b PRO

kurtmo wrote on 8/29/2008, 4:27 AM

The new DLL makes it possible for me to import AVCHD files from the new Panasonic HMC150 camera. Without this dll, Vegas Pro 8.0b locked up on imports and gave a divide by zero error with the files.

Only issue I see is that it still locks up on 59.594 (60p) AVCHD files. They play fine when I preview them by clicking on them in the project media tab. However, when I drag a 60p clip to the timeline Vegas hangs.

All the files works fine when transcoded to a 60p MXF files using raylight. Even the 60p files can be dragged to the timeline.

AVCHD (.mts) files that work:
720x1280/24p
720x1280/30p
1920x1080/24p
1920x1080/30p
1920x1080/60i

AVCHD files that didn't work:
720x1280/60p
1920x1080/60p

BTW: It would be nice to be able to render out to AVCHD at these rates/filesizes as well.

Thanks!

MofoDude wrote on 8/31/2008, 11:07 AM

Please keep me informed of the update or beta version of it. The instability that I encounter is my files are recorded from three sources 1) Sony FX1 in hd, 2)sony HDSR12 in hd and a POV-1 single sony CCD camera in 720x480 as AVI files. Project is 1080-60i and I render as mainconcept m2t files.

Problem 1 is when I get to 2gigabite file size, VegasPro shuts down
Problem 2 is AVI won't import with sound
Problem 3 is rendered AVIs are blank unless I time stretch or compress in the timeline
Even if I render in 720-480, VegasPro stops rendering at 92% with an unexpected error(but it only closes the project)

My email is rthacker@telus.net

Thanks............btw it's still an awesome editing platform

Mody wrote on 9/7/2008, 10:25 PM

ita: Ok ci sono anch'io

Ciao

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