H.264 Rendering HELP!!!

Moon Drop Studios wrote on 10/11/2007, 1:34 PM

I have Vegas 8.0 and when I want to render an .mov I want to use H.264. The only option was H.263.

I now have Quick time Pro and I need to know how to get Vegas to render using H.264.

Any thoughts?

I need to have a video rendered with this codec on Saturday. Please someone help.

-Mike-

Comments

Terje wrote on 10/11/2007, 2:34 PM

File -> Render As... Type: Main Concept AVC/AAC

jimbo20 wrote on 10/12/2007, 3:41 AM

Won't this generate a file with .mp4 extension, not .mov, as Quicktime?

Moon Drop Studios wrote on 10/12/2007, 7:45 AM

QUOTE: "Won't this generate a file with .mp4 extension, not .mov, as Quicktime?"

It does generate a .mp4 extension and that quality is not good at all. I was told to download the latest "K-Lite codec package", I tried it but still did not work.

-Mike-

rs170a wrote on 10/12/2007, 8:45 AM

It does generate a .mp4 extension and that quality is not good at all.

What are your render settings?
What do you want to use it for?

I was told to download the latest "K-Lite codec package".

Bad recommendation as codec packs like that can install way too much garbage.

Mike

Terje wrote on 10/12/2007, 8:56 AM

It does generate a standard H.264 file fully playable in Quicktime. The quality of the H.264 file will depend entirely on what settings you use for rendering, it can be pretty bad, and it can be amazing.

What quality do you want? You have to select the appropriate resolution and bitrate for your video, the end result will be good.

Eugenia wrote on 10/12/2007, 11:59 AM

Just use Sony's AVC encoder if you don't like Main Concept's. The .mp4 extension is actually preferable as it's more compatible with devices and apps.

Moon Drop Studios wrote on 10/15/2007, 4:08 AM

Problem solved. Well I was not able to do it in Vegas, But after I rendered an uncompressed .avi, I opened it in Quicktime Pro and compressed it there. It worked wonderful. I had a 3 minute short at 12.6 mb and it looked and sounded great.

Terje wrote on 10/15/2007, 7:22 AM

Can you exaplain what your problem was? You can do this from Vegas, so I am not quite sure why you had to do it in Quicktime. Also, in my opinion, the mp4 encoder shipped with Vegas created much better quality output than the one shipped with Quicktime Pro.