Does Vegas 5 Support More Online Videos Formats than Vegas 4?

Duderdude2 wrote on 12/29/2004, 11:55 PM

Does Vegas 5 support more online videos formats to render videos as than Vegas 4?

I'm just wondering because I'm trying to make fairly high-quality videos (320x240) while maintaining a low file size. Is Vegas 5 any better? Thanks!

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farss wrote on 12/30/2004, 4:49 AM

Nothing springs to mind, that's pretty low res actually, well by video standards! What are you going to encode to? mpeg-1 is quite good at high bitrates and universally playable although I render out as DV first and then use TMPGEnc to encode (for mpeg-1 it's free). You other choice is WMV9, work sfine out of Vegas 4 or 5 or you can use WME which is also free from uSoft although it has more controls than a space shuttle.
Bob.

Duderdude2 wrote on 12/30/2004, 10:38 AM

Thanks. I'm just trying to figure out which format would be best for web videos. They need to be a format that most people can see, and I want them to look good, while having a small file size.

Which format do you think would be best for this?

Spot|DSE wrote on 12/30/2004, 10:52 AM

Windows Media and Quicktime are the generally preferred formats. If you stay with WinMedia 9, streams can be played on both Mac and PC's, and it's a much higher quality than either REAL or QT at low bitrates.