I would (I do) start with one of the Internet templates. They all play on my iPad. 

Or you might try the tablet presets in Handbrake.

You can get the MainConcept AVC/AAC encoder back in the internal preferences. Under the "Options" menu hold SHIFT while selecting "preferences", then select the "Internal" tab then search for "main" and you'll find it. Set it to TRUE. Then you'll have those Sony tablet mp4 templates back.

Or you can achieve the same thing (IIRC with a more recent version of the MainConcept codec), by using the MAGIX AVC/AAC MP4 Internet HD templates and dropping the Maximum bitrate down to 18,000,000. Per John's comment above, you might not need to do that.

@Nick Hope, Thanks soo much for that!

No way I could work that out! Presets "custom settings" are stored in the reg so back up to speed in no time.

Any benchmarks for SVP16 verses early versions?

I did a quick benchmark exact same time V12 to V16, Umm.

As someone who considers road signs as mere suggestions, I decided to see for myself what the differences might be between the two render templates.

You can get the MainConcept AVC/AAC encoder back in the internal preferences. Hold SHIFT when you click "Preferences", then search "main" and you'll find it. Set it to TRUE. Then you'll have those Sony tablet mp4 templates back.

Or you can achieve the same thing (IIRC with a more recent version of the MainConcept codec), by using the MAGIX AVC/AAC MP4 Internet HD templates and dropping the Maximum bitrate down to 18,000,000. Per John's comment above, you might not need to do that.

Nick thank you, however for those like me a little more challenged I'd suggest to your instructions add "Under options menu hold "shift "while selecting "preferences," then select the "internal"tab then search for...." Took me a while to figure it out

As someone who considers road signs as mere suggestions, I decided to see for myself what the differences might be between the two render templates.

 

Oops, I missed the change in the "Profile" on the custom settings. So there was more to it than just the bitrate. Good spot John. So @paul101, don't miss that change (main->baseline) as well as dropping the bitrate if you want to mimic the old Sony tablet template as closely as possible with the Magix AVC encoder.

wjauch, I will change it.

Yes it worked, the Sony ninja keystroke opens the ipod settings.

But how to render to Xvid? that would be nice.

Fitting a whole video to 700 meg is amazing with Xvid

Xvid is old hat now isn't it? I stopped rendering with it a good few years ago. If you really want to, I think you can install the Xvid codec and it will reveal itself as a Video for Windows encoder in Vegas. If you want to get fancy, stick with AVC and read this. If you want to get even more quality per bit, HEVC is one way, but generally less compatible and more demanding on viewers' hardware than AVC.