Render problems

purple24 wrote on 10/26/2018, 12:48 PM

Hi there. Just to preface the issue, it's worth noting that I'm not very used to Sony Vegas and primarily used to work on Adobe Premiere. However I currently don't have access to the Creative Cloud suite and have been using a pre-existing copy of Sony Vegas Movie Studio 13 to edit some videos. I haven't been able to find an easy export file format for my videos (which are DSLR .mov format) in Vegas; on Premiere I'd export as either a MOV or a H264, whereas these don't seem to exist on Vegas? Or in the case of MOV, the data rate is limited to 3 mbps, which is clearly too low for high quality video. So I've been exporting as .M2TS, which is adequate enough for my recreational purposes.

However, I am regularly finding that exported files have segments of just still frame/frozen image in amongst the video - these are not intentional freeze frames, it is clearly an error during rendering. The timeline plays through fine. Wondering what you advise here to fix this, and also if there's a way to recreate the exports I'm used to on Premiere?

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j-v wrote on 10/26/2018, 1:23 PM

Wondering what you advise here to fix this, and also if there's a way to recreate the exports I'm used to on Premiere?

Since a few years Vegas is not Sony's anymore but Magix Vegas and my advice is not to compare a program for beginners of years ago like VMS 13 with Adobe Premiere, but for instance try the Vegas Pro 16 Trial for 30 days and post your questions after you tried the program.

 

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purple24 wrote on 10/26/2018, 2:00 PM

Wondering what you advise here to fix this, and also if there's a way to recreate the exports I'm used to on Premiere?

Since a few years Vegas is not Sony's anymore but Magix Vegas and my advice is not to compare a program for beginners of years ago like VMS 13 with Adobe Premiere, but for instance try the Vegas Pro 16 Trial for 30 days and post your questions after you tried the program.

 

Hi, thanks but upon inspection a trial of 16 won't be very suitable because of the limitations (2 minute max render, also watermark?). Does anyone know of at least what may be causing the block frames in the MS13 export? Or if there's a way to export my project from MS13 into Premiere (improbable I guess?)

NickHope wrote on 10/26/2018, 11:47 PM

H.264 = AVC. They are the same thing. I never used VMS13 but I assume it had at least one AVC option, and maybe 2: Sony AVC/MVC and MainConcept AVC/AAC.

This post explains how you can get the most out of those codecs: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-can-i-improve-the-quality-of-my-avc-h-264-renders--104642/

vkmast wrote on 10/27/2018, 5:30 AM

Is the OP using Sony VMS 13 or Sony VMS 13 Platinum? (Platinum in Advanced Edit Mode and there Advanced Options in Make Movie)