What have I done? Impossible work flow??

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pwelander

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I may have painted myself into a corner. I am trying to solve a video editing workflow problem. I have to post videos to YouTube from an event and have the following tools to work with: Panasonic HDC TM700P, Vegas Movie Studio HD 9.0 (yes, the cheap one) running on a new but wimpy ASUS laptop with a Centrino processor. Yes, it's a recipe for disappointment. (Oh to have my Mac and FC, but I can't take it with.)

I have managed to transfer footage from the Panny to the computer via the SD card. (I shot it in the default HG mode. Would I be better going down to a lower grade mode?) The computer will play it nicely in some viewer program, but Vegas doesn't seem to like the .MTS file format. Nor does it seem to like .MP4 from a Flip HD. It will handle .MOV files. What does Vegas like? Do I need to convert these to something else before importing to Vegas? If so, what? What is Vegas' preferred format?

So many questions... Thanks to anyone who can help.
 
As I research this, one thought that occurs to me is that the wimpy Centrino processor simply isn't up to it. Apparently Vegas does support AVCHD (Right??) Anyhoo, is it possible that even though I can't see it all that well on Vegas' screen, it is actually processing the video correctly and when I knock it down to FLV, all will be well? A lovely idea, certainly.
 
This is MS 9? It's the consumer version, and it's an older version, so it may not have the best support in the first place.

But yes, the processor may well be the bottleneck.
 
Maybe it isn't so bad

Maybe it isn't so bad

After more experimentation, I made a short movie with mp4 footage from a Flip HD, the new Panasonic, and some footage from both converted to MOV. While the HD would not show properly on Vegas' preview screen, when I rendered it to AVI (which took 3x as long as the actual footage) it did work properly in the media viewer. The HD still looked HDish, and the footage converted to MOV looked pretty awful. I'm sure my little Centrino was pretty hot after the experience.
 
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