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rmack350 wrote on 3/16/2011, 4:34 PM
.mov files will be tied to quicktime. Make sure you've got that installed. Quicktime updates periodically break Vegas (and PPro too). It may be that Vegas 4 won't be able to use a current version of Quicktime.

Vegas 4 wasn't able to work with mp4. I'm not sure you can change that.

No version of Vegas works with FLV. It's proprietary.

Vegas 4 is quite old. You might be better off finding a third party application to transcode your incompatible media to a compatible format.

Rob Mack
craftech wrote on 3/16/2011, 5:55 PM
Rob is correct. Vegas 4 cannot handle mp4.

Moreover ALL versions of Vegas do a lousy job creating .mov files so Vegas 4 will be no better or worse than Vegas 10 or any other version.

You can download the freeware utility called Super@.

It does a decent job creating .mov wrappers, but you have to have Quicktime installed.

I use Sorenson Squeeze, but it costs some bucks.

John
musicvid10 wrote on 3/16/2011, 7:56 PM
Vegas 4 will not work with HD, regardless of the wrapper.
I think you are due for an upgrade.
rmack350 wrote on 3/16/2011, 11:54 PM
This got me wondering about Vegas 4 and HD, since I was pretty sure that it supported resolutions up to 2k

Here's a quote from the 4e release notes:
Project frame sizes up to 2048 x 2048 are now allowed for AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, RealMedia, Windows Media, and still-image output is 2048x2048. The Windows Media 9, MPEG-2, and RealMedia 9 plug-ins include new HD rendering templates.

Still, Vegas 4 is pretty old (2003) and probably not what most people would want to use for HD.

Rob
musicvid10 wrote on 3/17/2011, 12:09 AM
Rob,
If I recall correctly, HDV support was not added until Vegas 5, and AVC support was not added until Vegas 6. Is my memory failing?
Or are we defining HD video differently?
rmack350 wrote on 3/17/2011, 12:29 AM
We're defining HD differently. V4 could handle HD resolutions but you're thinking in terms of specific codec support.

V4 could probably work with something along the lines of a Huffyuv codec in an AVI file. That'd give you an up front demonstration of why HDV such a big innovation. HD that's not heavily compressed needs a lot of disk throughput.

My guess is that the OP is using Vegas 4 because he can get it for free, but it's so old that no one is going to want to spend time helping him out.



musicvid10 wrote on 3/17/2011, 12:43 AM
"V4 could handle HD resolutions but you're thinking in terms of specific codec support. "

Yes I am; the same ones most HD camcorders have used since they first became available. The usefulness of being able to render in higher resolutions is nil if the editor can't ingest the footage. Thus I believe that HD support in Vegas began with version 5.

And I agree with you that the OP should upgrade.
craftech wrote on 3/17/2011, 9:18 AM
I clicked on his name. He has no information listed whatsoever and this was his first and only post. Let's see if he even responds.

John