Edited camcorder video from Vegas- crashes when skipping.

[JDMils]

I'm using Vegas Pro 11 on Windows Ent x64. I copied the video from my camcorder (*.MTS) onto the PC, placed it in Vegas then Rendered it as "BluRay 1920x1080-50i, 10Mbs video" which resulted in the file Church.M2TS.

The video plays nicely, however, if I skip ahead or behind, the first frame of the new destination shows and stays on the screen while the audio continues as normal. If I skip again, the same thing happens.

Why would it be doing this?

My aim is to produce a 1920x1080 video with 5.1 audio.

Media Info:

General
ID : 0 (0x0)
Complete name : \\hp-dv7\d$\Media\[2012-09-15] Josh & Joey's Wedding\Output\Church.m2ts
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 11.4 GiB
Duration : 1h 43mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 15.8 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 18.0 Mbps

Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=2, N=13
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 1h 42mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 14.8 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 15.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.285
Stream size : 10.6 GiB (92%)

Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 1h 43mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -40ms
Stream size : 285 MiB (2%)

This happens on VLC, WMP and my Xtreamer hardware media streamer/player.

[TreeTops]

Your subject says you edited the video. What did you edit? Transitions, fades, title? I had similar problems with VLC. I now use MPC-HC 64 and that seemed to work.

[aedipuss]

you made a transport stream. a program stream would be better. try using the mainconcept avc/internet 1080p template.

[JDMils]

When you press Start/Stop on the camera, it creates a new MTS file. So, for example, the reception is made up of 64 MTS files. I imported these into Vegas, adding a title screen, removed some unwanted scenes, put in a few fades, etc, then I rendered the output.

It seems that the problem has something to do with the Format BDAV because I rendered the output as Format = MPEG-TS which seems to not have the skip problem, however my audio is now 2 channel. The resulting file is jittery and really bad quality.

I am struggling to find a usable code which can give me 5.1 channel audio in Vegas.

Aedipuss, how can you tell the video is a "Transport Stream"?

I tried MPC-HC and it worked! However, none of the other software media players works and when I play the video on my Xtreamer hardware media player it crashes like it does in VLC.

[aedipuss]

transport streams don't have the navigation built in that program streams do. it would work fine if you took it and authored it to blu-ray and burned a disc as then additional navigation is added.

5.1 in a avchd file is usually aac but vegas doesn't have that as an option. the way to get around it is to create an mp4 video with 1920x1080 and no audio, and also create a separate 5.1ch ac-3 audio file and then combine the good video and 5.1 audio into an mkv file with mkvmergegui.

[JDMils]

I'm at a loss as to which option to choose. I'll try a few but if it's going to be this hard then I'm afraid I'm going to have to give Vegas a miss and find another app.

What do you guys use in this case?

[JDMils]

Most of the hi-res rendering options do not work for me, such as:
* AVCHD 1920x1080-50i 5.1 Surround [JM02].m2ts, Format=BDAV, 6 channel audio.
* Blu-ray 1920x1080-50i, 16 Mbps video [JM01].m2ts, Format=BDAV, 6 channel audio.

These formats work OK:
* Blu-ray 1920x1080-50i, 25 Mbps video [JM02].mpg, Format=MPEG-PS, Only 2 channel audio.
* HD EX 1920x1080-50i [JM03].mxf, Format=XMF, Only 1 channel audio.
* AVCHD 1920x1080-50i [JM01].m2t, Format=MPEG-TS, Only 2 channels audio.

As soon as I changed the format to "MPEG-2 transport stream (.m2ts)", the format changes to BDAV and the problem starts.
I changed the format to "MP4 file format (.mp4)" and Vegas either crashes immediately or after around 2 minutes of rendering will crash with the error:

An error has occurred while creating the media file AVCHD 1920x1080-50i [JM03].mp4. The reason for the error could not be determined.

So what I've done is the following:
* Render to Sony AVC/MVC\Blu-ray 1920x1080-50i, 16 Mbps video stream (Video only).
* Render the same media to Dolby Digital AC3 Studio\Surround Sound DVD (Audio only).
* Use MKVMerge to merge the two together.

Although it involves a few extra steps, luckily the Audio-only render takes a few seconds and the MKVMerge takes a few more.

Thanks especially to aedipuss for the working solution.

[_Al_]

to get video and 5.1 audio you can try Sony avc - memory stick SD if it is going to work, but it comes only with CBR (constant bit rate) for video, and you have to customize template manually:

video format -avc, frame size - 1980x1080, profile - high, CABAC, Frame rate - whatever is yours, pixel aspect ratio 1, and bitrate, click audio tab at the bottom and choose audio coding 5.1