MPEG-4

shooter wrote on 3/2/2004, 1:44 PM

Does anybody know if/where you can get an MPEG-4 CODEC that could be used in Vegas4. I have some experiments I am trying to run on some video w/different BR's & CODECS ?

Comments

scotty_dvc80 wrote on 3/2/2004, 1:57 PM

i think Vegas will do it.. go to MWV9 and custom and find it embedded in there.. i think its already there.. Anyone??

corug7 wrote on 3/2/2004, 2:09 PM

I think you can use divx if you download the codec as well.

shooter wrote on 3/2/2004, 2:16 PM

That was it !
Thanks Scotty.
Next question is : If my file is encoded MPEG-4 & I try to use it in DVDA 1.0, will DVDA try to re-render/recompress it to get it to MPEG-2 or will it just refuse it altogether ?

I know I can write it to a DVD as a data file, but was just wondering about above.

Bill Ravens wrote on 3/2/2004, 9:14 PM

3ivx is an interesting and free MPEG4 codec. The nice thing about 3ivx is its ability to encode and playback HD.

TVCmike wrote on 3/2/2004, 9:50 PM

If my file is encoded MPEG-4 & I try to use it in DVDA 1.0, will DVDA try to re-render/recompress it to get it to MPEG-2 or will it just refuse it altogether ?

Considering that DVDs are MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 only, any authoring tool will have to transcode the MPEG-4 (or a derivative thereof) back into MPEG-2 or MPEG-1. Be warned: you will have substantial loss of quality (i.e. pixelation and blockiness) unless you're using extremely high bitrates on your original encode. In short, you should expect quality loss.