Rendering Question

VideoDentist wrote on 6/29/2009, 7:25 AM

Hi. I am now to the forum and have a rendering question for HD video on my flash player.
I am looking for the highest quality video and am squeeezing the rendered product with Sorenson as Flash 9 flv high quality.

My questions is if I render my Mpg 4 video file from my HD camera ( 1080x24) as a .mov file uncompressed it turns out great but is a huge file and takes a long time to render.
It seems when I render as Sony AVC (mp4) it renders faster and seems to look as good as the end result flv file.

Is there any disadvanatges to using the Sony AVC rendering option??

Any help would be appreciated.

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Dave Stalker wrote on 6/30/2009, 9:06 AM

We are running two edit suites with Vegas Pro 8 for news and commercial production. We have found the h.264 codec, MPEG 4, to be excellent for rendering out broadcast quality files that are small enough to transfer quickly to the hub station via fibreoptic connection.
We actually rendered a project uncompressed, and then same piece with h.264, and you cannot tell the difference visually.
File size with the codec is much smaller, 111MB .vs 2.3GB

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musicvid10 wrote on 6/30/2009, 12:28 PM

Good news!
Flash now supports AVC .mp4 directly and there is no need to do multiple renders or run it through Squeeze. This will produce your highest quality content.