can someone explain Cineform in VP8

Ros wrote on 1/31/2008, 5:41 PM
Could someone please explain to me what I can expect from Cineform in Vegas Pro 8b. I have been using Vegas primarely for SD editing but now that I have an EX1 cam, a new computer and Vegas Pro 8b , it seems Cineform has a strange behavior.
I basically had the Cineform HD codec v2.8 (from Vegas) on my old computer from which I had rendered one, only one intermediate file! Everything was fine, it played well in Windows media player. Now with my new computer, that file won't play anymore in media player. But I can still render some files with the Cineform intermediate codec v2.8. So I installed the free Neo player 3.2.3.152 from Cineform. I can now play that file, but what was a progressive field now looks like interlaced, but that it not an issue a this point. The problem is that when I render to a Cineform intermediate, the Cineform HD codec has been updated to v3.5.7 (most likely from the Neo player installation) but now I just cannot render anymore since I get a message telling me: NOT LICENSED FOR CINEFORM HD ENCODING.

Is this a bug, or what???? If you render to an .avi file, what do you usually render to if you want to have equivalent quality like your original?

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Serena wrote on 1/31/2008, 9:58 PM
The Cineform codec supplied in Vegas is limited to HDV and is not the full licence. If you want to generate 1920 x 1080P Cineform DIs you need the NEO HD version, which you buy. This is what the message is telling you. Vegas Pro 8 works well with the mxf files from the EX and you might wish to work with this for a while before paying for the full NEO HD licence (I'm presuming you've never bought a licence for NEO HDV or HDVConnect.
I've got NEO HD because I often work with multiple generations, but I've not yet made a serious comparison to a workflow limited to mxf.
Ros wrote on 2/1/2008, 5:14 AM
My template is HDV 1280x720 23.976p and I render it to the same size Cineform intermediate. If I want to export to an .avi file, what would be the best render settings and having about the same size, resolution and quality as the original?