render AVCHD 1080p

bemused wrote on 7/22/2011, 3:03 AM

I have vegas studio platinum 10 and a new sony HX9V camera which can output movies as AVCHD 1080p. Movies port into vegas just fine and editing,etc all works great too.
However, when I render the file I only get render templates up to AVCHD 1080i (not p anywhere). As I am playing these movies on my plasma tv (Vierra) through a media player (WD TV Live HD) from a NAS drive (WD My book world) I wanted to save them as progressive. Actually the Vierra does a great job of showing the AVCHD 1080i rendered movies- it just feels wrong to me to be able to record 1080p and then store as 1080i. Any help please? I have tried stabbing about in custom settings but random changes by an idiot do not seem to be helping. Thanks.

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Eugenia wrote on 7/22/2011, 3:39 AM

There is no reason to export back as AVCHD, since the kinds of AVCHD files Sony exports don't playback from the camera anyway. So you just get a Sony PS3 or similar fast multimedia device, and you export in 1080p in MP4, using the Main Concept encoder and VBR encoding.

bemused wrote on 7/22/2011, 6:48 AM

Thanks, it helps to understand I do not need to keep in AVCHD format. I have tried the MP4 1080p VBR output and it is inferior. For example when i used AVCHD 1080i render settings a movie which include a cat walking virtually into the camera showed every hair on the cat in astonishing detail. When I rendered the same movie using the MP4 1080p default template it looks blocky and is blurred by comparison-a lot of detail has gone. I used "best" in quality settings. Also the 1080p movie does not fit my tv screen, it has quite a big borer of black all the way around it. The AVCHD 1080i version fills the tv screen. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

Eugenia wrote on 7/22/2011, 2:31 PM

You simply use more bitrate. For example, you make sure you use the right resolution, frame rate and field order, Main Profile, uncheck the two checkboxes, and then you use 16 mbps average, and 30 mbps maximum.