Most compatible? Main Concept vs Sony AVC

kerumbo wrote on 7/16/2017, 11:38 AM

I edit short videos for my wife, who puts them on flash drives and needs to use them in many locations, often having to use the host institution's computer, in various countries with a variety of newness to their technology. She has no way to predict the operating system, or what kinds of codecs the computer might have installed. Occasionally there will be a Mac and, once, even a Roku 3 (which has especially limited codec flexibility). While quality and not-too-large file size are always nice, a big priority is just making sure her clips will play in as many machines as possible. I do prefer H264, and would appreciate advice re: Is either Main Concept or Sony AVC more broadly compatible? (I am concerned about whether the Sony codec will play on fewer machines.) In Vegas Pro14, can I (and if so, should I) be using Basic or Main profiles, instead of High? Are higher-numbered profiles generally more compatible, or less so? Thanks for your thoughts.

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set wrote on 7/16/2017, 6:12 PM

Both SonyAVC and Mainconcept are creating a H.264 MP4 video format.

Just choose the Internet Templates to start with.

I previously using Mainconcept as it was compatible with my older video card Radeon 5750 GPU acceleration. But, after switching to Radeon RX470, I need to switch to SonyAVC.

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kerumbo wrote on 7/16/2017, 6:25 PM

Thank you, set! It sounds like, in your experience, Sony AVC may have the edge for greater compatibility across hardware -- which is interesting since I thought Sony might be less widely accepted.

set wrote on 7/16/2017, 7:25 PM

Both are just encoding engines. But the final render result will be the same codec - H.264 standard internet, compatible with Youtube.

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Musicvid wrote on 7/16/2017, 7:31 PM

At bitrates <=8 Mbps, x264 in Handbrake pretty much blows away Mainconcept and Sony AVC.