Rendering to H264 mov file

LongTallTexan wrote on 12/30/2009, 6:33 AM

Allright here is the situation.

I have edited a TV spot using HDV footage and rendered the finished piece in its native format. I am trying to render to Quicktime H264 for delivery as that is the format they require. I upgraded my Quicktime to pro. I would have figured the upgrade would unlock the H264 format in the Vegas Quicktime 7 render settings but of course it does not offer any other options in the Vegas Pro 9 render as dialog. I then try to open in Quicktime to convert through Quicktime Pro and it does not understand the M2T file. Any sugestions. Seems you should be able to do this within Vegas but guess not. Any idea as to another format I should render at to import into Quicktime Pro. The project is HDV 1080 i. Thanks

L.T.

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robwood wrote on 12/30/2009, 7:25 AM

i'd render out of Vegas to an 8bit uncompressed QuickTime, open that file in QT, then
re-render as H.264... the uncompressed file will be big (200M/s about)... i usually use QuickTime PhotoJPEG to limit size but not sure if colorspace would be an issue in your situation so uncompressed should keep things simple. :)

if you need a 10bit format, u can try using Blackmagic's 10bit QuickTime codec instead of the usual 8bit uncompressed... u can get the BM QT codecs by installing Decklink or Intensity software (available at Blackmagic site http://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/software/)

good luck!

musicvid10 wrote on 12/30/2009, 9:53 AM

You are going to a lot of unnecessary trouble.

There are two high quality H.264 renderers in Vegas, Sony AVC and MainConcept AVC. Both have an array of custom settings.

If your client is not comfortable with the .mp4 extension, you can just change it to .mov

That's it!