2-pass in Vegas 4?

davarm wrote on 3/18/2005, 4:48 AM

I have Vegas 4 and am too cheap to do an upgrade. Is there any way to do 2-pass or Multi-pass MPEG-2 rendering from AVI to MPEG-2?

Thanks

Comments

craftech wrote on 3/18/2005, 4:56 AM

Not that I am aware of.

John

ScottW wrote on 3/18/2005, 5:12 AM

Not with the mainconcept encoder that's supplied. You could frameserve to Cinema Craft Encoder Basic though, which does allow 2 pass encoding.

--Scott

RBartlett wrote on 3/18/2005, 5:22 AM

FrameServe out of Vegas4 with debugmode.com 's free Frame Server (AV).
Then you can use the standalone MainConcept MPEG-2 encoder (you buy that, so you need to decide if it is cheaper to upgrade to V5 or V6).

If your source is DV, then you'll probably deliver YUY2 (YUV packed) pixels into MainConcept instead of RGB. I'll be corrected on that if anyone wants to jump in....

debugmode supports winding up and down your timeline so 2-pass isn't a problem.
BJ_M was the first one to tell us about doing this. Although he is probably using Vegas5 right now, with the included 2-pass encoder (related to the standalone code as I recall).