Some large AVCHD files seen as audio files

dspenc1 wrote on 3/3/2008, 7:23 PM
I just received my SVP8.0b the other day, so I have not had a chance to use it that much. Using a Canon HG10, I created a 200+ MB file last night. It plays fine in WinDVD as an AVCHD file. However when I import it into SVP8.0b, it sees it as an audio file. Previously, I shot three short clips and imported them into Vegas just fine. I decided to try to shoot a large file again to see if the issue would occur again. It did. Then I thought since both files were shot in Spotlight mode, that might be the issue. I shot a short clip in Spotlight mode and it imported just fine. Using auto mode, I shot a 275MB clip and it imported just fine.

So the two clips that did not import into Vegas properly were both a little over 200MB and shot in Spotlight mode with my HG10. They both play fine in WinDVD. On the second clip, I copied it right from the camera's HDD and change the file extension to MPG from MTS. It played fine in Windows Media Player. That MTS file did not import properly into Vegas, but a few smaller ones did.

Vegas does not like those two files for some reason. Any ideas? If this matters, the two large clips involved lighting 5 candles one by one in a dark room.

Thanks!

Comments

4eyes wrote on 3/3/2008, 9:52 PM
Your not alone, there's nothing wrong with the file. I think there's something up reading the container format. If I take the same file and burn it to an avchd disk (not re-encoded), just re-multiplexed onto a dvd (avchd format). Then copy the video back from the dvd (from the STREAMS folder) to the harddisk Vegas will then read all of them.
So the process I use only re-multiplexes to a new m2ts container.
Before calling this a bug the answer may be on the technical side.

When playing the videos from the harddisk (after Vegas creates them) some of the m2ts files when playing back using PowerDVD or Nero8 the time meter isn't very accurate. Yet, when I play them back from optical media the time meters are correct.
dspenc1 wrote on 3/4/2008, 3:40 AM
Is there an easy workaround that I can use when this happens to get Vegas to read the file properly? Also, do the settings that I use to shoot the footage have anything to do with this issue?

dspenc1 wrote on 3/4/2008, 7:11 PM
I found my own workaround. I imported the file into Ulead Movie Factory then exported it as an MPG file. That file imported into Vegas just fine.