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musicvid10 wrote on 10/14/2009, 1:21 PM
You already have two very high-quality h.264 renderers in Vegas.

1) Render an .mp4 file using either the MainConcept or Sony AVC encoders.
2) You can change the file extension from .mp4 to .mov, or leave it as is.

That's it!
JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/15/2009, 6:38 AM
Unfortunately, Vegas doesn't see all of the Quicktime codecs that Quicktime Pro gives you. :( What you will have to do is render to another format and then use Quicktime Pro to convert to an H.264 MOV file.

I'm not sure if just changing the extension from mp4 to mov as musicvid suggested really gives you a Quicktime file. While Quicktime will play it on a PC, I'm not sure what it will do on a Mac. Does anyone know?

~jr
LJA wrote on 10/15/2009, 7:12 AM
No need to change the extension. Quicktime plays Sony and MainConcept mp4 files as they come from a PC; I do it all the time.
musicvid10 wrote on 10/15/2009, 7:45 AM
LJA is absoloutely correct.

There is no need to change the extension, unless the client requests an h.264 file with the .mov extension, which is sometimes the case. That is why my response was either / or.

There is also no need I have found to encode or rewrap the file using QT Pro. The files should play fine on either platform, at least others have reported they did so using previous QT versions (7.6.4 has its own, well-documented issues).
1marcus4 wrote on 10/30/2009, 11:49 AM
Both Mainconcept and Sony renderings play fine in QuickTime. But BEWARE... On the ipod and iphone, Mainconcept rendered movies play and look outstanding at the highest quality settings. However, Sony rendered movies are extremely pixelated at the same settings.
Andy_L wrote on 10/30/2009, 1:03 PM
Quicktime Pro has a passthrough checkbox in the rendering options. Render your H.264 in Vegas, then open the file in QT and save it as a .mov file, using the passthrough option to prevent re-encoding. Hope this helps!