When I render to AVC, I get a black screen. VLC shows a video length of zero.
When I render to m2ts everything works.
Footage is captured from Sony FX-1.
Any suggestions?
Windows 10 1709 16299.431, Intel 8700K, GTX1070Ti
Please provide more information, especially about your exact render settings. Use this post as a guide: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/important-information-required-to-help-you--110457/
Hi Nick,
Will this help?
MediaInfo:
General ID : 255 (0xFF) Complete name : C:\Users\gena\Videos\Captures\Clip 003.m2t CompleteName_Last : C:\Users\gena\Videos\Captures\Clip 099.m2t Format : MPEG-TS Commercial name : HDV 1080i File size : 10.9 GiB Duration : 1 h 1 min Start time : UTC 2009-05-23 16:12:59 End time : UTC 2009-08-05 07:40:40 Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 25.5 Mb/s Maximum Overall bit rate : 33.0 Mb/s Encoded date : UTC 2009-05-23 16:12:59 Video ID : 2064 (0x810) Menu ID : 100 (0x64) Format : MPEG Video Commercial name : HDV 1080i Format version : Version 2 Format profile : Main@High 1440 Format settings : CustomMatrix / BVOP Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, Matrix : Custom Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12 Format settings, picture structure : Frame Codec ID : 2 Duration : 1 h 1 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 23.9 Mb/s Maximum bit rate : 25.0 Mb/s Width : 1 440 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate : 25.000 FPS Standard : Component Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Interlaced Scan order : Top Field First Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.614 Stream size : 10.2 GiB (94%) Color primaries : BT.709 Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Audio ID : 2068 (0x814) Menu ID : 100 (0x64) Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 2 Codec ID : 3 Duration : 1 h 1 min Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 384 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 41.667 FPS (1152 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Delay relative to video : -120 ms Stream size : 168 MiB (2%) Menu ID : 129 (0x81) Menu ID : 100 (0x64) List : 2064 (0x810) (MPEG Video) / 2068 (0x814) (MPEG Audio) / 2069 (0x815) () / 2065 (0x811) ()
The render settings you showed are for m2ts (AVCHD), which you said is OK. What are your render settings for AVC, that you say is black?
There is a general troubleshooting post here that you could work through: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-why-does-my-rendered-video-look-bad-troubleshooting-quality--103361/
Sorry, that was a mix up, here's the correct render properties:
I tried most of the suggestions in the troubleshooting guide, but it seems everything is already as suggested.
Tried the MainConcept option (as opposed to Sony) same black result. The only other format apart from .m2ts that "works" is .avi (horrible motion blur and zigzagging vertical edges).
I rendered some 50i HDV here in VP13 build 453 to the same "Blu-ray 1920x1080-50i, 10 Mbps video stream (*)" template and the result is fine.
Which build of VP13 are you using?
Is GPU acceleration of video processing (in your video options) ON or OFF? If it's ON, try with it OFF.
Does the source video on the timeline play normally?
If you still have the tape, you could try recapturing with HDVSplit. It shouldn't make a difference if the timeline plays normally, but I'm running out of ideas.
Tried with GPU acceleration off. Same result. Have the same build 453. The source video plays normally.
I tried re-importing the "black" .avc file into Vegas and it reads it without any problems. Could it be an issue with VLC?
Tried with GPU acceleration off. Same result. Have the same build 453. The source video plays normally.
I tried re-importing the "black" .avc file into Vegas and it reads it without any problems. Could it be an issue with VLC?
Ah. They are not playing for me in VLC either. That's surprising. Maybe it can't support .avc video streams that are not wrapped in a container. They will play in Vegas, MPC-HC, Windows Media Player etc..
Interesting, none of my Blu-ray Sony avc files will play in VLC. I never realised as normally I use MPC-HC or WMP. So it does appear VLC cannot play them as Nick suggests.
My problem is more interesting - not even WMP can play these files. Could I be missing a codec somehow?
In WMP 12.0.10011.16384 in Windows 10 version 1511 I right-click the AVC file and choose "Open with..." to access WMP. Then I get the prompt below. Then when I click "Yes" it plays.
I do the same and get this:
I do the same and get this:
Which version of WMP is yours?
FIXED! Downloaded K-Lite Codec Pack. Can now playback in WMP and MPC-HC. (VLC still doesn't work, but that doesn't matter any more).
I do the same and get this:
Which version of WMP is yours?
12.0.16299.15
Thank you to everyone for their ideas.