Make Movie Settings - Vegas Plat ProMovie Studio 9

Travelbuddy wrote on 6/24/2011, 9:38 AM
Hello, first apologises if this question has been already been raised and answered. I have yet fully understand the creation of HD DVDs so having just upgraded to a new Panasonic HD camcorder I thought I would take some footage, uploaded the video to .M2TS file format and then import this into Sony Vegas 9 and output a format 1920x1080 25fps .MP4 file. Hoping this would play via the WD TV HD Media Player just like the example footage supplied by Western Digital, however I get the error message that the file cannot be played and need to undertake a format conversion. So rather than convert the .MP4 to another format is there something I need to be aware of regarding the "make movie" settings within Sony Vegas for a .MP4 file? Thanks, Travelbuddy (United Kingdom). PS the Vegas .MP4 output file plays great video and sound on my PC.
Make Movie settings used are - Format=Sony AVC(*.mp4,*m2ts,*.avc) and Template=AVCHD 1920x180 PAL










Comments

Eugenia wrote on 6/24/2011, 11:35 AM
AVCHD is not the same as MP4. Are you sure the file is mp4 and not .mts AVCHD? If you are actually exporting in mts, then use the "custom" button on SonyAVC to tell it to specifically export at MP4. Also, make sure you run the latest version of WD TV.
musicvid10 wrote on 6/24/2011, 9:36 PM
Thoughts:

-- Sony AVC in VMS 9 was a WIP. Try the trial version of VMS 11 and see if that is better.

-- Mainconcept is the other AVC encoder in Vegas. Often more playable.

-- AVCHD is not an efficient HD delivery / playback format. It's good for shooting and transcoding to BluRay, that's about it. Although WDTV Live plays it fine on a good network connection.

-- Try the workflow in this tutorial, changing the output to 1920x1080, you may or may not need the levels filter depending on the connection from your TV.


-- The "latest" WDTV Live drivers are a bit of a bugfest. Not sure of your model because you were imprecise ("WD TV HD Media Player" is not a model), but the recommended version for Live and Live Plus is 1.04.31. Don't blindly accept their updates or you will lose your hair. Here's one unofficial forum with good discussions of firmware:
http://www.wdtvforums.com/