movie studio 9 platinum and HDR-SR11

ghostengineer wrote on 1/7/2009, 4:06 PM
Hello everyone, I have a Sony HDR-SR11 Hd camcorder and I recently purchased the Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum editing system and Im trying to upload videos from my camera and I keep getting a message that the camera isnt recognized, its the wrong format, or I have a corrupted file. I have uploaded the videos from my camera to the computer but the videos are extremly choppy and I can upload the videos from the computer to the program but they are still choppy. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to reformat the videos? Im confused

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Eugenia wrote on 1/7/2009, 4:26 PM
You simply need a new computer. AVCHD is a very heavy format. You need a latest tech PC with over 2 GBs of RAM, and use the Vegas tips on my blog about how to speed up the preview.
ghostengineer wrote on 1/7/2009, 4:32 PM
I have a brand new computer with a intel pentium dual core. It has a 3.0gb memory and 320 gb hard drive. Also Im still having a problem with the program recognizing my camera. The camera is an HDD camera with the videos recorded on the hard drive and not a stick.
Bill D wrote on 1/7/2009, 5:56 PM
Maybe try installing the software that came with your camera?

I also find the playback to be choppy on a PC. I use the COREAVC codec for playback (it does hardware de-interlacing and therefore unloads part of the task to your video card), and is much less choppy for playback.

Inside Studio, playback is very, very choppy for AVCHD.
GerryLeacock wrote on 1/7/2009, 6:00 PM
I have a 1.86GH dual core with 4 megs of memory (running XP, so I'm actually only using 3.3 megs). Also have a Sony HDR-SR11 and have no problems with VMS 9 Plat in HD.
ghostengineer wrote on 1/7/2009, 6:47 PM
Hi everyone, thanks for everyones help and responses. The software for my camera has been installed before I installed movie studio 9. My question now is, even though my videos are still choppy, what should be settings be? Doesnt the video need to be converted? If I were to upload anything I have so far on youtube will the videos still be choppy like I see on my computer? Im looking at a HD video on youtube and its beautiful and crystal clear.
Markk655 wrote on 1/7/2009, 7:15 PM
For VMS playback try using Auto/Preview. That should help with playback during editing.
Bill D wrote on 1/7/2009, 8:10 PM
It will not be choppy when you render it to a low bandwidth format.

I should add that I use the highest quality record settings for my camera. I found motion artifacts from the compression. Connect your camera to an HDTV using a NON-suppled mini-HDMI cable and look at the output. That is probably a good approximation of how good your footage is. I thought there were too many motion artifacts, and increased to highest quality, which eliminated all of these.
ghostengineer wrote on 1/8/2009, 8:33 PM
Ok, I must admit, Im no pro when it comes to this so Im still learning. When I render this, what kind of format should I use to get the smooth playback? mpeg4? Im clueless but Im trying to learn. I specifically want to be able to post HD videos on youtube. What am I doing wrong?
Eugenia wrote on 1/8/2009, 9:23 PM
Please read here:
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/12/19/sony-vegas-hints-and-tips/
ghostengineer wrote on 1/9/2009, 9:17 AM
Thank You eugenia, I have read it but since Im an amateur, not alot of it makes sense. I did mess around more and uploaded a video to Youtube and the video turned out fairly decent but theres no audio. Now what did I do wrong?
MSK wrote on 1/12/2009, 9:52 PM
Perhaps this could help too:
http://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=4233
GBR wrote on 1/12/2009, 10:54 PM
Try turning off your anti virus software when editing. I have similar jumpy preview and occasional crashes when editing video from HDR-SR1E AVCHD camera. However, when the anti virus is turned off the preview smoothes out significantly and the crashes don't seem to occur.
Make sure you turn your anti virus back on before reconnecting to the Internet though.
Eugenia wrote on 1/13/2009, 6:36 AM
>I have read it but since Im an amateur, not alot of it makes sense.

The article I linked to you shows how to speed up your preview, it's not that difficult to understand actually.
pbaird wrote on 1/13/2009, 10:38 AM
I'm new here, but I just bought Studio Platinum and the HDR-SR11 myself. I have the luxury of a video editing pro as a neighbor. With each AVCHD clip I put on a timeline, I can select that clip (on the timeline) and use Shift+M or "Selectively Prerender" on the tools menu. I choose NTSC widescreen, and it renders the clip, and uses that low res clip as a proxy. Then when I render out HD, it renders from the actual clip, not the pre-rendered. Hope that makes sense. The only thing I haven't done with it yet is any precision effect editing, so I don't know if I'd have to clear out the prerendered version first and just deal with the stuttering.

Hope this helps - I am LOVING that camera.