Unable to render mp4

[jruud]

I have a project I'm trying to render to an mp4...I previously rendered 2 different versions of it, then after this morning when I re-edited and finished the project, it doesn't let me render an mp4. If I try to render, it goes through the whole process and then I watch as the file disappears when rendering is complete. It let me render to an AVCHD file, but it won't let me render an mp4 from it. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling VS x4 and installing the SP but nothing works.

[Ken Berry]

Welcome to the forums!

Unfortunately, we need some further information. I am just a little confused. You imply that you are trying to render from AVCHD material. But AVCHD *is* mp4. So what specifically are you after, or more to the point, what do you specifically want something labelled mp4, as opposed to AVCHD, for? Or are you wanting something called xxxx.mp4 as opposed to AVCHD's xxxx.mpg or .mts or .m2ts?

[jruud]

Alright, yeah I'm a little fresh at video editing. I'm mostly a photographer but shoot a little video at every wedding.

I originally rendered a file xxxxx.mp4, which is what I've typically been doing for these short 3-4 minute videos.

When I couldn't render the final edit to xxxx.mp4, I rendered it to Blu-ray>1920x1080 (xxxx.m2t), figuring I'd render it to .mp4 from the highest quality video file possible. THAT didn't work....so really I don't know what to do with it. Ideally I want to give the clients a fairly compressed, universal HD file that isn't .wmv