Ronen - my experience - and that of a bunch of people I've read on Twitter - is that editing programs don't like cutting H264 files from Xactis very much. That might (or might not) be what your problem is. I had thought that Sony Vegas got past this, because it appeared to import any format. But later I saw that it, too, had problems with some mp4 Xacti files.
You could use MPEG Streamclip - which Jay suggested - but I'm not sure that the PC version has batch convert - last time I checked only the Mac version did - but I can't find any answer to this online so download it and see. I use VisualHub on my Mac to convert mp4 & AVI files to .dv format for Final Cut Pro (which hates different codecs). But they're only 640x480 clips and I've just seen that your footage is HD, so perhaps .dv wouldn't be appropriate for you. Caution converting to AVI: I know Vegas has problems with some AVI files. You can read up about this in Vegas support forums. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 22-Sep-08, at 6:48 AM, Jay dedman wrote: > I recently got a Sanyo HD-1010. It's beautiful, small, vertical, and shoots > 1080/720-i/p to SD Memory Cards. I really like it. > Except my video editor, Sony Vegas, does not. If I try loading more than 18 > of the .mp4 video files into Vegas, on the 19th file it goes crashy crashy. > *(This is not a hardware issue. I have suitable processing and ram power > left unused.) My last project has yet to be output because of this. > Can anyone recommend any good tools for batch-converting the mp4s to AVI > format? I would consider it tantamount to saving my life ;) Hey Ronen-- MPEG Streamclip (a favorite) is a great free conversion tool that does batch capture: http://www.squared5.com/ This is a common question so I hope others will help fill out the group's wiki page with your own experience:: http://videoblogginggroup.pbwiki.com/Compression+and+Transcoding+sofware Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
