Hello everyone, I'm new here but have been using Vegas Movie Studio 7 for about 3 years now, and VMS 9 for about 3 days now. All of my previous experience with Vegas has just been with editing DV AVI files.. Now I got a Panasonic AVCHD camera which records to m2t files and just saves them on a flash card. It shoots the video in true 24p at 720. No fake progressive.. no interlacing.. Just true 24p. 23.976024 or whatever to be exact.
Now, my latest project... I copied all of my m2t files to my hard drive, and quickly found out that VMS 7 had no idea what they were. Nor did anything else I tried.
The only thing that recognized them was the awful, free program that came with the camera. So I dropped the clips into that timeline and looked at the render options: There were literally NO render settings. You could pick WMV, AVI, MPG, M2T, MOV but you couldn't detail how you wanted to render these files. Thankfully, if I rendered a MOV file, it was uncompressed and lossless. Everything else looked like absolute garbage after it rendered.
So I rendered all of my m2t files into one uncompressed MOV file for each day of shooting. So all together, I have 8 uncompressed MOV files that I then drop into my Vegas timeline with no problem.
I edit together the hour and a half long movie, render it along the way here and there with wmv, but set to low quality since it's just for emailing to the other people involved to see progress and such.
I also render short uncompressed MOV clips to bring up in after effects and put visual effects on, then render those visual effects back to uncompressed MOV, and drop those back in my Vegas timeline. Everything is always in the same format, uncompressed MOV. 720p 23.976024fps.
Now.... No matter what format I pick, if I go to render this in full 720p23.976 quality, but this time with a codec, at some random point during the process it either hangs and just keeps adding to the elapsed time.. or it crashes with an unknown error.. or it crashes with a low memory error.. or it crashes and says the file could not be created.
It's a different error message in a different spot, each time.
Am I just screwed here? Let me know if there's anything else I need to explain. Thanks very much in advance.
Now, my latest project... I copied all of my m2t files to my hard drive, and quickly found out that VMS 7 had no idea what they were. Nor did anything else I tried.
The only thing that recognized them was the awful, free program that came with the camera. So I dropped the clips into that timeline and looked at the render options: There were literally NO render settings. You could pick WMV, AVI, MPG, M2T, MOV but you couldn't detail how you wanted to render these files. Thankfully, if I rendered a MOV file, it was uncompressed and lossless. Everything else looked like absolute garbage after it rendered.
So I rendered all of my m2t files into one uncompressed MOV file for each day of shooting. So all together, I have 8 uncompressed MOV files that I then drop into my Vegas timeline with no problem.
I edit together the hour and a half long movie, render it along the way here and there with wmv, but set to low quality since it's just for emailing to the other people involved to see progress and such.
I also render short uncompressed MOV clips to bring up in after effects and put visual effects on, then render those visual effects back to uncompressed MOV, and drop those back in my Vegas timeline. Everything is always in the same format, uncompressed MOV. 720p 23.976024fps.
Now.... No matter what format I pick, if I go to render this in full 720p23.976 quality, but this time with a codec, at some random point during the process it either hangs and just keeps adding to the elapsed time.. or it crashes with an unknown error.. or it crashes with a low memory error.. or it crashes and says the file could not be created.
It's a different error message in a different spot, each time.
Am I just screwed here? Let me know if there's anything else I need to explain. Thanks very much in advance.