Dissapointed with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum

[Paris MkVI]

Many of these affordable cameras are recording AVC long-GOP, which is not terribly edit-friendly. Almost every edit requires rendering to create new I frames. Many folks working with long-GOP convert the files before editing to a standard format that edits easily and renders faster. Usually it means setting up an overnight conversion, going home, and having at it the next day.

[Mark0514]

The aforementioned converter from Koyotesoft does a good job and it's free. I have not taken the time to compare the time it takes to convert/edit/render versus editing and rendering the .mts files. I need to do that with a short clip and see if the extra step proves to be a time saver. I could also double my computer's horsepower - but that will have to wait.

[Cville]

Just a little note about doubling your computer horsepower. I have an AMD quad processor with 8 gig of ram windows 7 64bit os. I did an 8 minute video project in sony vegas pro 8 32 bit with lots of track motion and specialized graphics. It took 44 minutes to render. I upgraded to Vegas pro 9 64 bit software I ran the same render for a test and the render time dropped to 11 minutes. It's not alwas about the hardware.

[ceddy]

Good question to ask. yes. It's very disappointing. Replacement is the best way.

[rbcyouthdude]

Also remember any video effects, like color correction, Blur pretty much anything under the video effects tab will cause a longer render. Had a project that was going to take over 8 hours to render one time and was in a crunch, took out the color correction and edge blur and it rendered in just over an hour. This is on Vegas Pro.