HF100 plays video but Vegas only shows audio

[mdj101]

HI Guys,

Im wondering if you can help me.

I filmed some firework footage the other night, about 40 clips in total. They all play fine on the camera (HF100) and all but three play fine in Vegas, but these three, when I click on the .MTS file it just shows the audio info, no video. If i drag the file to the timeline, it still also shows the audio. Obviously the video is there as it plays on the camera.

Any ideas on how to get at the video so I can edit it?

Thanks in advance.

[minidv2dvd]

if you haven't done so, you should update to the latest version of vegas pro 8.0c and use the File > Import > AVCHD Camcorder. but you may be caught in the canon avchd isn't the same as sony avchd black hole.


{edit} sorry i missed the part about only 3 not playing - ignore me, i'll go clean my glasses.

[poisondeathray]

Since all the other clips are ok, but only 3 act this way, this suggests something is different with those 3. Can you play these 3 clips normally on your PC?

Sometimes the container is slightly damaged, and you can fix it if you replace it (mux into a new transport stream). You can try TsRemux and put it into a .ts or .m2ts

You could also try encoding them to uncompressed , or lossless compression (e.g. lagarith or huffyuv), then import into Vegas

[mdj101]

I'm struggling trying to find anything that will just "play" them. Any suggestions?

[poisondeathray]

KMplayer can play them back, as can VLC. Both these are self-contained (no need to install external codecs/splitters) - but playback might be pretty choppy if your listed computer specs are correct

MPC can also play it back if you installed haali media splitter and ffdshow decoder (with h264 enabled to "libavcodec")

[mdj101]

Ahhh. well, ive got them playing in VLC so halfway there. I cant get tsRemux to work, i just get an errror when it loads.

[Soopafresh]

Try Tsmuxer. You'll have to rename the file extensions to .M2TS

[mdj101]

That worked a treat!

Just recoding in vegas now. Thank you.