I'm trying to edit a video with clips made in 720 hd, however each time I try to upload footage to Sony Vegas Movie Studio something goes wrong, usually ending in Vegas freezing. The problems:
* At first the clips loaded fine, but the preview video was too choppy to edit anything. I then learned I had to convert the files from AVHD to mpg or m2t to make a clearer preview. No free converter program does this, so I have to convert it using movie studio by adding the footage (in batches) to the timeline and making an mpg hd "movie" and here's where the problems start
* Whenever I tried to add some footage to the timeline, Vegas just freezes and says "not responding." This forces me to force quit and restart the program after many minutes.
* Sometimes I make it to the the "make movie" stage (after adding footage to the timeline with no problems), but during the rendering, it just stays at 0%. If I try to cancel the rendering it freezes again with "not responding."
Things I've already tried:
* re-installing
* checking for updates
* re-installing from website instead of CD
* closing all other applications
* saving the clips onto the hard drive first instead of downloading from SD card
* disk defrag, disk cleanup
* restart computer
* working from external hard drive
P.S. Working from Windows Vista. I have 129GB of space available on the C drive and about 106GB on external HD. Another problem I've had (which may require a separate post) is that now there are all of a sudden no sound peaks and no sound from the clips.
* At first the clips loaded fine, but the preview video was too choppy to edit anything. I then learned I had to convert the files from AVHD to mpg or m2t to make a clearer preview. No free converter program does this, so I have to convert it using movie studio by adding the footage (in batches) to the timeline and making an mpg hd "movie" and here's where the problems start
* Whenever I tried to add some footage to the timeline, Vegas just freezes and says "not responding." This forces me to force quit and restart the program after many minutes.
* Sometimes I make it to the the "make movie" stage (after adding footage to the timeline with no problems), but during the rendering, it just stays at 0%. If I try to cancel the rendering it freezes again with "not responding."
Things I've already tried:
* re-installing
* checking for updates
* re-installing from website instead of CD
* closing all other applications
* saving the clips onto the hard drive first instead of downloading from SD card
* disk defrag, disk cleanup
* restart computer
* working from external hard drive
P.S. Working from Windows Vista. I have 129GB of space available on the C drive and about 106GB on external HD. Another problem I've had (which may require a separate post) is that now there are all of a sudden no sound peaks and no sound from the clips.