How's AVCHD doing in Vegas Studio Platinum 9?

Sebaz wrote on 8/22/2008, 5:19 PM

I'm curious to know if Sony is finally bringing smart-rendering of AVCHD footage to Vegas, now that the Studio version has a new release. Can some of you share your experiences, especially editing 17 mbps 1920x1080?

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Wolfgang S. wrote on 8/23/2008, 5:58 AM

There is no smartrendering for AVCHD available, neither in Moviestudio 9a, nor in Vegas Pro 8b.

Preview capabilities have been improved in Moviestudio 9a, for 1920 AVCHD.

Rendering for 1920 AVCHD works now with Moviestudio 9a, at least if you work with XP.

Sebaz wrote on 8/23/2008, 7:40 AM

So I guess that means no smart-rendering for Vegas Pro 9 whenever it's released. That sucks. I'm so sick of editing with Pixela ImageMixer, probably the worst video editing software in the history of software.

Eugenia wrote on 8/28/2008, 5:24 AM

You can edit and render full 1920 AVCHD now, but NOT render out in AVCHD format in 1920. You can export in almost any format in 1920, but not for AVCHD, even if your original source file is 1920x1080. It will still restrict you to export in 1440x1080 and 30p. Which of course, sucks, because we pay big bucks for these consumer AVCHD cameras that can do 1920x1080, and do even 24p, but Vegas doesn't let you export on the same format -- even if it can (it has the res and frame rate and field order options disabled when you try to modify them).

ForumAdmin wrote on 8/28/2008, 2:38 PM

Just to clarify some confusion in Eugenia's post, you can render full 1920x1080 AVCHD video with the 9.0a update of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum. See the release notes for further details.

Eugenia wrote on 8/28/2008, 3:12 PM

It seems that I had lost that episode while on vacations... apparently there's this v9.0a version. I am glad to see this fixed, although the frame rate and the field order are still not flexible in the AVCHD "custom" screens. I can't change the frame rate manually by typing 23.976 and I can't choose "progressive". Some AVCHD cameras from Panasonic support these features (without pulldown addition), so it's important to let us choose these options too. Thanks.