rendered movie is choppy/freezing at 3:30 min mark

kim-mayberry wrote on 10/31/2014, 3:18 PM
Hi all,

Hope you can help me with an issue I am experiencing. I took an existing Vegas Studio HD Platinum 11 project that renders just fine and inserted a line of text across the bottom of the entire project using the Legacy text Default Text. At about the 3:30 minute mark, the rendered video begins to get choppy? Not sure if that is the correct term. Anyway, it is choppy and then finally just freezes. It does not happen if I remove the text and re-render. I played around and found that it also does not happen if I render it in a lower quality format such as HDV 720-30p.m2t or Internet 640-360-30 p.mp4. Because my videos are used at trade shows I normally use a high quality AVCHD 1920 x 1080-60i.m2ts or HD 1920 x 1080-60p.mp4 when I render.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Kim

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 10/31/2014, 7:02 PM
Does it finish the rendering (so the rendered video is choppy) or does Vegas crash at 3:30?
musicvid10 wrote on 10/31/2014, 10:05 PM
AVCHD is not a delivery format.
You want mp4 at a sane bitrate.
720p is the best, most reliable delivery format.
TOG62 wrote on 11/1/2014, 6:54 AM
AVCHD is not a delivery format.

I'm not sure if that statement can be made in such an absolute sense.

My experience is that AVCHD generated by Movie Studio is difficult to play on the PC and through the media player in my TV (which will not play any other HD format). On the other hand, AVCHD generated by at least four other applications plays just fine. In fact Movie Studio AVCHD run through tsMuxeR also plays perfectly well through both devices.

My feeling is that it's 'horses for courses'. Movie Studio AVCHD works well in DVD Architect for making Blu-ray discs but not for most other purposes.
kim-mayberry wrote on 11/1/2014, 11:40 AM
It doesn't crash. It is the rendered movie that has the problem. No problem when I view the vf project either.
TOG62 wrote on 11/1/2014, 2:23 PM
Try running it through tsMuxeR.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/tsMuxeR
kim-mayberry wrote on 11/3/2014, 8:16 AM
I am not familiar with tsMuxerR. What advantage would that give me?

It does it if I render as .mp4 too (if I chose Sony AVC HD 1920x1080-60p).

TOG62 wrote on 11/3/2014, 8:38 AM
It seems to alter the file structure without transcoding. The result if often much smoother playback.