MainConcept MPEG-2 Encoder Settings

AmstelBierPul wrote on 5/21/2003, 8:26 AM

I know that there are some questions about the MainConcept MPEG plugin before, but I cann't find the answer.

Until now I use Vegas 4 at work for editing and rendering DV AVI files. Lately I started at home to experiment with VOB files, which I rip from my music DVD's (only for hobby and home use), and re-encode them to SVCD MPEG files with the standalone MPEG Encoder from MainConcept. This works well, I can make a lot of settings and the quality is fine.

Then I thougt, let's try if Vegas 4 can read VOB files and it can. So now I can edit the video and audio before re-encode the VOB file to SVCD MPEG-2.

But my problem is that I cann't reach the extra settings in the Vegas 4 MainConcept plugin, like I am used to them in the standalone version.
Are these setings not available in Vegas 4, or do I (my boss) have to buy an update??

Comments

farss wrote on 5/21/2003, 8:30 AM

I don't know about the disappearing settings but to date all the updates to VV4 are free, as they are for DVDA. I have a suspicion though that the MC plugin may be an LE version.

jetdv wrote on 5/21/2003, 8:46 AM

If the custom button does not work, the installation is bad. Uninstall Vegas, remove all vegas folders, and (if you know what you are doing) remove all Vegas registry entries. Then reinstall.

The MPEG encoder is FULLY included with Vegas.

BillyBoy wrote on 5/21/2003, 8:53 AM

For example, select file type as MPEG-2, NTSC DV template, then hit the custom button. You should see two video tabs, video and advanced video. From these you can change all kinds of paramaters for the MC plug-in.

As far as it being a LE or watered down version. Hardly. It isn't an exact copy of the free standing version rather a "tuned" version with some subtle changed for Vegas. Don't feel like searching for the exact threads, that's from my memory of what both SoFo and MC techs have said here in the forum in the past.

AmstelBierPul wrote on 5/21/2003, 1:01 PM

Somebody mentioned that because we have also installed Sound Forge with the normal plugin installed (so not the professional one), also Vegas gives only the simplified settings.

Anyway I will install it again and see. I can believe that the templates work well, but I miss now the 16:9 flag and the bottom/top field first options.

mikkie wrote on 5/21/2003, 1:36 PM

" I miss now the 16:9 flag and the bottom/top field first options. " Those should be there, as are many of the controls, though perhaps named differently.

If something with your other software used for the vcds and such thinks something is not there, as in one of the flags, and everything is set correctly in the vegas mc plugin, there are utilities available to change the headers, make them more complient with whatever some of these vcd tools look for.

check vcdhelp.com doom9.org digital-digest.com