RGB24 = each pixel of video is made up of 3 bytes, red/green/blue
RGB32 = each pixel of video is made up of 4 bytes, red/green/blue/alpha
YUY2 = each pixel of video is made up of 1.5 bytes containing y/u/v data in YUV colour space.

For vegas, RGB24 or RGB32 are optimal. While RGB24 takes lesser memory for each pixel, the native format in which vegas gives video data to the frameserver is RGB32, so there are tradeoffs in using either of them. It is your choice which one you want to use. Default is RGB24.

Write audio as PCM samples = the full audio data of your project will be written as uncompressed 16-bit PCM audio in the signpost AVI file. This will make your signpost AVI file huge. Use this option if have problems with serving audio between vegas and your target app - some apps have problems with audio serving so in such cases enable this option. Otherwise keep this disabled.

I used the new Frameserver last night for the first time. I selected RGB32 and PCM. frameserved tp PCE (Procoder Express) and it took it right a away, no problems. Thanks Satish you did a great job on this.

glad to hear it works. :)

Now if only Satish could find a way to get After Effects effects to work inside Vegas then life would be perfect. :)

Hi Satish,

While we're on the subject of the Frameserver, I upgraded to the 2.0 version and have used it three times so far. Every time I use it (with Vegas 5, serving 32-bit), Vegas never reports the render as progressing--it's stuck at 0% for the entire render, even though CCE progresses nicely and the final output is just fine. It's just the progress that Vegas reports that doesn't seem to work.

Thanks,

-Brent

watch the preview window and you can see if it is progressing ....

I'd realy like to thank satish for the excellent job (despite the fact I haven't tried the new version yet).
;)

It IS progressing. Vegas is just showing 0% on progress throughout the entire render. The last version of frameserver didn't have this problem.

It is not a bug, thats how it is in this version of the FS. The progress update in Vegas was removed because your target app will anyway show the progress, and removing any unwanted display like showing the progress in Vegas improves the performance of frameserving.