AVCHD footage to Movie

[provehighman]

Hi. I hope this is in the right place, but I need some help with HD movie making. I am only a beginner, so please be nice!

I have a Sony HDR-SR12E, recording in 1080 x 1920i AVCHD, and I want to use that footage in Sony Vegas Pro 9 to edit into a movie. I can get the movie sorted out no problems as I have been using vegas for a while to edit DVD PAL videos, but this new HD rendering has got me stumped. What file format do I render it to in Vegas to keep the 1080 x 1920 and retain the audio? It only has video stream 1080 x 1920 option? Otherwise it's 1080 x 1440 with audio.

Once I have got that, how do I get it into a format that is going to please my 7 Series Samsung LCD TV? I have attached a list of the supported formats in a .gif file.

I've wound up with .m2t files that don't work on the TV, and have tried various renders to try and get the right one, but its not working.

Can anyone help?

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[minidv2dvd]

to movie? in what format?? dvd? blu-ray? vcd? svcd? mpeg-4? file? disc?

you get the drift.

vegas pro9 has HD 1920x1080 project settings for 60i, 50i or 24. set the audio to 2ch or 5.1ch. it has audio with 1920x1080.

[provehighman]

Whatever format suits. I need 1080 x 1920 footage in a file format that will play on the TV. Is MK2 the one I am after or M2Ts? Under MPEG2 rendering, it only has video stream at 1080 x 1920. i've tried this and it only does the video as per the description.

vegas%20render.jpg

[minidv2dvd]

HDV is 1440x1080 but it would display at 1920x1080. it might work as it's an allowed blu-ray size.

if you choose blu-ray 1920x1080 as a template from the render as menu, you have to change a couple settings to get it to be video with audio. click custom next to the template. click audio at the bottom. put a check in include audio at the top. click system at the bottom. remove the check mark from save as separate elementary streams. click ok.

[poisondeathray]

According to the image and the specs, I don't think his device can playback transport streams, only AVC Main in .mp4 container. It doesn't list anamorphic specs either, so it might not be compatible (you would have to resize 1:1). Only sure way is to do some testing on some short clips.

[provehighman]

Thanks for that. I've been rendering short clips for a few hours and nothing really worked. What did work was MPEG2 1080 x 1920 50i with the audio included under Custom settings and I unchecked the 'save as separate stream' option for the audio. once it had rendered as m2ts, I changed the file name to .mpg and it worked on the TV! Can't believe it would be that simple.

I tried AVCHD 1080 x 1920 with the same settings and it would't keep the audio for some reason.