Problems rendering AVCHD

Zippie wrote on 8/18/2010, 12:49 PM
I'm having difficulty rendering AVCHD movie that I have created on Sony Movie Studio . I try to render or make a move that I would like to save onto my hard drive. The format I would like to save is AVCHD 1920x1080 PAL 5.10 Surround. My system keeps giving me the following error "an exception error has occurred"
Any advice?

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Eugenia wrote on 8/18/2010, 2:23 PM
There is a tricky workaround to fix most of the Sony AVC errors, by changing the way the Windows kernel works. But it might make your Windows stop working, so it's up to you if you want to follow up or not. There are various messages about this here, and links to the "solution".
MikeyH wrote on 8/19/2010, 6:29 AM
After much searching, I have never found an editor that is 100% reliable in handling AVCHD from my Sony camcorder. I believe I finally found a work around. I bought TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress which I use it to batch convert the camcorder files to "HDV " (HDV-HD2 format). This converts all the .mts files to larger .m2t files. I can not see any loss in quality. I have not had any editor problems with these files.
In a finished editing project, I " replaced" the original clips with the converted .m2t clips and everything still seems to work the same.
My computer is windows7 64 bit, i7 950 with 12 gigs.
Let us know if you try it and it works for you.
Eugenia wrote on 8/19/2010, 12:54 PM
Mikey, it's not a good idea going from 17 mbps AVCHD to 25 mbps mpeg2. There *is* a loss in quality. Did you do an actual research with hard numbers and then find and suggest an INTERMEDIATE visually lossless codec? I have. Just because your eyes can't see the difference at first glance, it doesn't mean that the loss is not there. Do you even have a 1080p monitor to edit, so you can see your footage at 1:1 size while editing and then really see the blotches? Or that the loss won't be very apparent when the user starting using plugins (because that's when things usually break apart).

I did the research required to find out how BAD mpeg2 is, a "delivery" format, trying to do the job of an "intermediate" format: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/images/test5.png

Following the kind of solution you suggest (transcode, instead of going around Vegas' bugs), this is a tutorial on how to get around the problem, which was written for dSLRs originally, is also good for AVCHD: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2010/03/14/starting-up-with-a-dslr-and-sony-vegas/