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busterkeaton wrote on 11/20/2007, 6:22 PM
Dunno know why you don't want h.264, but you can try the Sony mp4 encoder.
Rob McKaughan wrote on 11/21/2007, 2:53 PM
I'm not using h.264 because most phones don't use it.

What I need to do is encode one file that will play back on most phones (which use the older mpeg4) as well as portable media devices (most, but not all, of which support both). This is not for the web.

I looked at the Sony MP4 encoder in vegas, but everything it produces is still h.264.
AtomicGreymon wrote on 11/21/2007, 4:05 PM
Interesting; I hadn't noticed there was no option for MPEG-4 part 2 encoding.

Looking on Mainconcept's site, they don't seem to have a MPEG-4 ASP (advanced simple profile) product... just the regular MPEG-2 and AVC. I suppose since Vegas Pro 8's primary purpose is geared more towards output of DVD or Blu-Ray than rendering things for a portable device, Sony either decided not to include ASP or just overlooked it. Maybe it'd be worth sending an e-mail their way asking about it. Until then, if you have something like Nero, it has a fairly decent MPEG-4 encoder.

Does Vegas open MPEG-4 ASP videos? I'd test it,but I don't think I have any videos encoded with that.
Rob McKaughan wrote on 11/23/2007, 4:18 PM
Yep. I can load MPEG-4 ASP clips in vegas. Just need to figure out how to render them.

I can render to something else & use quicktime to encode, but that's pretty manual. I'd like to automate it all with multirender or something.
TGS wrote on 11/23/2007, 8:03 PM
I'm assuming you don't have an earlier version of Vegas.
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