ProCoder MPEG codec?

RobbyBoy wrote on 12/8/2004, 6:59 AM

Okay, I'm hoping that this is an embarassingly easy question, but it's stumping me right now. I'm trying to get Vegas 5.0b to recognize the Canopus MPEG codec that was (should have been) installed with ProCoder 2.0. I've unchecked 'Ignore third-party DV codecs' in Preferences and restarted, but I don't see it in my list of available render types. Just the standard MainConcept ones. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

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ScottW wrote on 12/8/2004, 7:05 AM

Maybe Vegas doesn't know how to talk to it. As it's an MPEG encoder, I wouldn't expect changing the DV codec settings to do anything on the MPEG-2 render types.

Anytime I've used another MPEG encoder, such as TMPGEnc or CinemaCraft, I've always had to frame serve to the encoder via an AVI "file."

If it's really implemented as a codec though, it might show up under an available AVI output format.

--Scott

RobbyBoy wrote on 12/8/2004, 7:23 AM

Thanks, Scott. That probably explains it. I had just assumed when users were referring elsewhere in this forum to using the ProCoder MPEG codec, that they meant directly from within Vegas. The Canopus DV codec does appear in my system list of video codecs, but I cannot display the properties for it. Perhaps it is meant only to be accessible via ProCoder. Can anyone who is using ProCoder for Vegas MPEG encoding confirm this?

Laurence wrote on 12/8/2004, 7:46 AM

I'm pretty sure you could select the Procoder codec through the avi encoder, then change the extension name of the encoded file from .avi to .mpg.

scdragracing wrote on 12/8/2004, 3:18 PM

as was mentioned earlier, you want to use the free frameserver hack to export the "avi" file to procoder... mainconcept is a good mpeg2 encoder, but procoder is better in mastering mode.