I have a bug with HDV files in VEGAS Pro 14.0 (Build 161).
HDV .m2t files that were captured with HDVSplit cannot be dragged to the timeline [ Edit: Actually captured with VidCap, not HDVSplit. See later comment ]. Nor can I get a context menu (right click) for them in the VP14 Explorer window. It hangs and I have to kill VEGAS with the Windows Task Manager. I have only tested this with files 3.0GB or larger, as I no longer have any smaller ones. I ran a file through the old MPEG2Repair program, which allegedly makes MPEG2 files more compliant, but it still had the same problem. HDV .m2t captured with HDVSplit were fine in VP8, 10, 12 and 13. Here's a MediaInfo report for one of them:
General ID : 255 (0xFF) Complete name : E:\0-capture-Tarmak\Centara-Kata1.m2t Format : MPEG-TS Commercial name : HDV 1080i File size : 3.04 GiB Duration : 16 min 39 s Start time : UTC 2007-12-02 22:45:34 End time : UTC 2007-12-03 12:35:19 Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 26.1 Mb/s Maximum Overall bit rate : 33.0 Mb/s Encoded date : UTC 2007-12-02 22:45:34 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, BVOP : Yes Format settings, Matrix : Custom Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12 Format settings, picture structure : Frame Codec ID : 2 Duration : 16 min 39 s Bit rate : 24.5 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) : 0.629 Stream size : 2.85 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 : 16 min 39 s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 384 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 45.8 MiB (1%) Menu ID : 129 (0x81) Menu ID : 100 (0x64) List : 2064 (0x810) (MPEG Video) / 2068 (0x814) (MPEG Audio) / 2069 (0x815) () / 2065 (0x811) ()
HDV .m2t files rendered out by previous Vegas Pro releases CAN be dragged to the timeline and I can get a context menu for them. The Properties window reports compoundplug.dll as the decoder. I tested some such large 1080x1440-60i .m2t HDV footage, around 10GB per file, and no problem.
However....
I tried opening a large documentary project that was done in VP12/13 and based on HDV 1080x1440-50i footage. As far as I know, all or nearly all the HDV source files within them were trimmed and smart-rendered out by Vegas Pro 8 and 10. They are small files, just a few seconds long, but there are lots of them. There is also audio, MagicYUV avi files etc. etc.. This project takes about 2 minutes to load into VP13 and about 4 minutes to load into VP12. When I try to open it in VP14 after a while Windows starts to run out of memory:
The 1st time this happened it then crashed out of Windows soon after the warning appeared. The 2nd time I closed the program and it was OK. The 3rd time I went to close the program but my PC entered some strange power saving mode and I was completely locked out and had to turn it off with the power switch.
I also tried opening a smaller VP12/13 project based on HDV 1080x1440-60i footage but it crashed (I submitted a Problem Report containing the word #NicholasHope).
But some small projects VP12/13 containing Vegas-rendered HDV 1080x1440-50i footage CAN be opened.
GPU acceleration is off. I tried increasing dynamic RAM Preview to 800 but it didn't help.
My computer has an i7-5960X, 32GB RAM, Windows 10. It's normally very stable and nothing else I use crashes it out of Windows.
I have submitted a support request, [Ticket#2016092017005354]