Vegas Pro 17 - Keyframe interval set to 1, how to change

Musicvid wrote on 7/27/2020, 9:47 AM

All keyframes are reference frames.
All reference frames are not keyframes.

Welcome to the forum.You are mixing up two different terms. But keep thinking and reading, you'll get there.

What you highlighted is not the keyframe interval; that is not visible in your settings. All it means is that P- and B- frames look at the nearest reference frame, rather than looking at others farther back or forward in the GOP. It does not mean you have an All-Intra AVC encode (!) Vegas won't do that, either. It has no bearing on your encodes, other than they are faster with 1 Ref.

If you want to play with settings that are already optimized, learning the command line parameters in x264 is a great place to start, but they only apply to x264. Vegas' h264 encoders do not have those options.

http://www.chaneru.com/Roku/HLS/X264_Settings.htm

Nathan-Gurel wrote on 7/27/2020, 10:19 AM

Thanks for the feed back. Ya, I basically took all the terms from different property tools and added then to the poste, hoping someone would understand the question.

I was looking at two different video properties, one has "CABAC / 1 Ref Frames" and the other has "CABAC / 2 Ref Frames" - I guess I am trying to reproduce the later. Is there not a way to do that directly in Vegas?

Musicvid wrote on 7/27/2020, 10:27 AM

If it's not available in the Render Properties Advanced tab, then no.

And 2 Ref frames is not "better" than 1.

Nathan-Gurel wrote on 7/27/2020, 10:38 AM

OK, thanks for the info. Appreciate it.

john_dennis wrote on 7/27/2020, 11:38 AM

@Nathan-Gurel

Happy Otter Scripts for Vegas Pro allows one to access x264 as well as a number of other encoders while using Vegas. The Render Plus application within HOS gives you access to the commands to do what you want. https://tools4vegas.com/home/