Using Nero Digital’s H264/AVC in Vegas 5.0d

tnw2933 wrote on 2/20/2005, 9:44 AM
By downloading a Nero Digital HD file last night ffrom their web site, I found that the Avellink Player could play this file perfectly and feed a terrific image to my HD Home Theater. However, I have not been successful at using frame serving to prepare a Nero Digital HD file within Vegas 5.0d. As far as I can tell the Nero Digital codec is invisible within Vegas 5.0d even though it is installed on the same computer as Vegas 5.0d.

Has anyone figured out a workflow for rendering to Nero Dital H264/AVC from within Vegas 5.0d?

Tom

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Spot|DSE wrote on 2/20/2005, 9:52 AM
1. "Render as" in Vegas to debug frameserver. Remember where signpost goes.
2. Start serving in Vegas by pressing button.
3. Use Copy DVD or Video mode in Recode
4. Direct Recode to the signpost avi file
5. Select settings and burn away!

Mark DiLeo will have a tutorial on the VASST site later this week.
tnw2933 wrote on 2/20/2005, 2:17 PM
Spot,

I had already tried this, but the result that I get is a 4:3 aspect file that does not play back smoothly either in Nero Showtime 2 or in Windows Media Player 10. It also produces a file that does not play back at all on the Avellink Player (which reports "Unknown Video Codec") even though the Avellink Player plays back the HD Nero Digital demo file from their web site without any problems.

I finally gave up on using Vegas to prepare the Nero Digital File. I re-edited then entire project In Neros' Vision Express 2, and I am now exporting the movie as a Nero Digital H264/AVC file. This is in progress as I write so we shall see if the result is a playable file and if the aspect ratio is correct. If the latter is still 4:3, I can override the "auto" setting in Nero Digital and force it to 16:9. For some reason in Nero Vision Express 2 the Cineform avi clips are seen as 4:3 aspect ratio.

Thanks for you rhelp, and I will be looking for Mark DiLeo tutorial on the VASST site.

Tom
Hulk wrote on 2/20/2005, 7:12 PM
I've noticed that SD H.264 files playback fine on my system in Showtime 2. HDV resolution files do not. I think the problem is more the required cpu overhead than a codec problem but I'm not positive. H.264 playback require a lot of cpu power. ST2 could perhaps be optimized too.

I'll have the tutorial/info finished in a day or two.

- Mark

tnw2933 wrote on 2/21/2005, 12:37 PM
Mark,

I am trying to play back these H.264 Nero Digital Files on my Xeon dual 3.6 GHz processor machine with nothing else running. If that is not sufficient horsepower, then I don't know what would play them.

One major problem I have in trying to take the project of Cineform .avi files and encode it to Nero Digital is that no matter what I do, I always get a 4:3 aspect file. For the life of me, I cannot get Nero Digital to output a 16:9 file. I hope you will cover this in your tutuorial, which I will eagerly be looking for.

Tom