m2ts render is disabled in vegas 20 pro

3POINT wrote on 2/23/2023, 12:53 PM

my m2ts file render in vegas 20pro is disabled, why?

Magix support is not helpful. Any advice ?

Not disabled (renders normally at my VP20), but maybe yours is not activated yet. You're using a registered version of VP20?

xraymaciek wrote on 2/23/2023, 4:01 PM

I purchased it and it works. How come its not activated

EricLNZ wrote on 2/23/2023, 4:10 PM

Are you online when you try to render? From memory the codec needs unlocking by Magix the first time it is used.

xraymaciek wrote on 2/23/2023, 4:18 PM

I am online and even logged in to my Vegas account. All others codecs work and I can encode to everything except m2ts. Magix support is no help and I have no idea what is wrong. THank you for any guidance. If this codec has to be unlocked how do you do it ? When I log in to Vegas account I see that my PC is activated.

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 2/23/2023, 4:26 PM

@xraymaciek Might help if you uninstall and reinstall vp20. If you have older Vegas versions, you might want to uninstall them too in case there's some kind of plugin mix-up. Suggest you retry the render immediately after re-registering vp20 so it activates on 1st use right after the Vegas registration.

xraymaciek wrote on 2/23/2023, 4:36 PM

OK I guess I will have to do that. I will let you know if this works. Thank again.

EricLNZ wrote on 2/23/2023, 6:18 PM

@xraymaciek When you've reinstalled do a "Factory reset" https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-can-i-reset-vegas-pro-to-default-settings--104646/

Make sure you tick the box to clear the cache in case the problem lies there. Uninstalling/Reinstalling doesn't do that.

Sometimes a Factory Reset will sort out a problem without having to uninstall and reinstall.

xraymaciek wrote on 2/23/2023, 6:21 PM

That's great tip. I will do reset in few minutes. I'm backing my PC just in case.

xraymaciek wrote on 2/23/2023, 6:46 PM

Reset does not work. Same error.

Before I bought full ver I installed a trial version and it still shows it in vegas. I installed my V20 over trial version . Maybe this is the problem. I only have 1 vegas on my HD.
I have just uninstalled and reinstalled vegas again and it did not work UNTIL I did and update.

So it I can render m2ts files now. Yea !!!

Update after 5 minutes - It worked for 5 min and it stopped working again !!!

fr0sty wrote on 2/23/2023, 11:10 PM

I've seen this issue with users working with video containing 5.1 channel AC3 audio, is that what you're using here?

Check this out...

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/ac3-activation--129931/

xraymaciek wrote on 2/24/2023, 11:40 AM

Thank you for that but this does not solve the problem, The only way I can see rendering 5.1 channel is using mp4 which quality I dont like.

Qbrick wrote on 3/24/2023, 8:53 AM

Export audio 5.1 from Vegas 20 in "Sony Wave64" (PCM uncompressed) then transcode it (with ffmpeg via command prompt) in AC3 5.1.

This is my only option for now.