Quicktime out of Vegas, how?

farss wrote on 3/3/2010, 8:05 PM
I had to give up using V9.0b to get this done last night. In the end I rendered an AVI out of Vegas and used PPro and Adobe Media Encoder to get the job done.

All I needed was a simple PAL 16:9 SD MOV file for a composer to use as a reference. I tried creating a custom preset in Vegas using H.264 and the vision came out just fine as did the first half of the movie's audio, the second half Vegas somehow repeated the pips at the start of the movie as the soundtrack, darn good thing I checked.

Bob.

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mtntvguy wrote on 3/3/2010, 8:20 PM
I've never liked the mpeg4s that come out of Vegas, so I downloaded (free) Mpeg Streamclip and I use it often. It also converts avi files to Quicktime, and gives you lots of preferences to set.

Here you go http://www.squared5.com/
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/4/2010, 6:49 AM
I've never done that codec, but I've done quicktime w/o any issues before. Could be a bug with that codec & your version of vegas (I'm 8c).
PerroneFord wrote on 3/4/2010, 8:29 AM
Mpeg Streamclip is using the exact same codecs that Vegas has access to. There is no magic going on. Understanding the various codecs and settings is critical to getting good results. Mpeg Streamclip doesn't even offer you the nice presets that Vegas does.

... But whatever works for you.
daryl wrote on 3/4/2010, 11:27 AM
I have had FAR better results from the Sony AVC selection than the MainConcept AVC/AAC, FAR better.

I recently shot a series of videos for a church to run on a Mac, I used Sony AVC and renamed the .mp4 to .mov (they were more comfortable with that) and it was beautiful.

Just an FYI.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/4/2010, 11:35 AM
the "brand new" mac's I've played videos on ran WMV's no issue, no updates/new software needed.
farss wrote on 3/4/2010, 11:53 AM
In my case the quality of the codec was not that much of an issue. The vision was only for reference, I doubt anyone will be worrying about image quality. I'd actually tried using the Sorenson codec as it's been around a long time. I figured that would be the safest option in case the composer's system didn't use the latest version of QT.


For anyone who is encoding H.264 for say YouTube, Adobe's Media Encoder has a not immediately obvious bonus, noise reduction. I gave up using it as it slowed the encode down something fierce but it'd be interesting to do an A/B comparison feeding the results with and without it through YouTube.

Bob.
PerroneFord wrote on 3/4/2010, 2:19 PM
You want a VERY compatible .MOV file? Use MJPEG-A. Darn near anything will play it.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/4/2010, 6:32 PM
if compatibility is what you're after, do mpeg-1. Anything plays that. Even DOS has players for that.
PerroneFord wrote on 3/4/2010, 9:03 PM
True, but you can't exactly do a 4k image with that like you can with Mjpeg...
farss wrote on 3/5/2010, 12:30 AM
True just about anything will play mpeg-1 however I was specifically asked to supply a Quicktime file and as far as I know I cannot put mpeg-1 in a QT wrapper.

I'll try MJPEG. I think this is the codec Apple uses for DV25, isn't it the same as what's written to DV tape?

Bob.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/5/2010, 6:09 AM
DV25 is what's considered on DV tape.

But maybe this is a case we we're assuming that since they're a mac head, they're smart (no insult insinuated, just a stereo type). If someone asked any one of us for an AVI file, we wouldn't even waste time guessing which codec they MAY be able to use, we'd ask & if they didn't know what we were talking about then we'd explain that AVI is a container & why the codec is important, then we'd settle on a codec or a different format (like mpeg-1).