lossless export to QT Pro?

navboy wrote on 5/12/2009, 7:29 PM

Just received Sony VMS 9, upgrade to b, first time user, really liking it. BUT, i'd assumed i could export my widescreen video to H.264 for streaming from my Darwing server, sending up to YouTube, MySpace, etc. but i cannot figure any output that give me any control over this - there is the mp4 render option, but no option for streaming, no control over aspect ratio, size, etc.

I do have QT Pro, so i guess if i can render losslessly in a format QT Pro will read, i could go throught all that to get my H.264. How do i do that in VMS 9? If it takes some sort of third party codec, any suggestions for one that won't screw my XP DAW up? Link?

thx so much, other than this stumbling block, i'm really liking it

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Eugenia wrote on 7/26/2009, 2:00 PM

>I'm still not sure where i can specify that.

You don't specify keyframes with SonyAVC, you just let it do it automatically.

navboy wrote on 7/30/2009, 3:23 PM

Ah, i see, on the auto keyframes.

The process of mp4, FastStart will work in general for me, but i still have a hurdle with my site that is all Darwin streaming server, in that it will only play .mov and not .mp4.

I'll either have to live with the gamma (which destroys the beginning and end of a certain piece that relies on some subtlety) or move away from using Darwin to Flash streaming, which will be a huge amount of work, going back and redesigning the site and transcoding finished pieces. I think i'll just wait a bit and see if Apple will fix Quicktime or provide a workaround.

I'm always amazed at how no matter what i attempt in the video world at this fledgeling point, there is always some roadblock or compromise - seems like there is still a ways to go for this stuff to mature.

navboy wrote on 8/17/2009, 5:46 AM

For general info, i did finally get this figured out. I export from Vegas as a QuickTime .mov using Photo-JPEG best, then in QT Pro can export to H.264 .mov without any gamma bug effects.

This project is set to render as progressive - i haven't tried this process with a project set to interlaced, but my guess is that for that it might be preferrable to export as Motion-JPEG A rather than Photo-JPEG.