Vegas Pro Rendering

MikeTe wrote on 5/18/2018, 12:16 PM

I have been using Vegas since 2003 with version 4. Ever since then I have tried to absorb as much information about Vegas online as I can find. My question? I have read multiple times that the best way to render your project is with the MPEG2 format. With the multitude of formats available in the Vegas Render window, and even more now with Vegas 15, is there any other formats that are as good or better than MPEG2. I also read that the WAV audio format is as good or better than AC3. Anyone got any comments?

Mike

Comments

NickHope wrote on 5/18/2018, 12:50 PM

What do you want to do exactly with the rendered files?

What format is your source footage and how was it created?

MikeTe wrote on 5/18/2018, 1:08 PM

I create Blu-ray Discs from my own videos. Currently using a Canon G30 recording 1920x1080 29.97fps. I'm also currently upgrading some old DVD Discs using a MPG file created by Vegas 9 and 13. They are 720x480 29.97fps. I convert these to 1920x1080 MPEG2 which works fairly decent when a couple of Vegas video effects are added to clean them up.

Former user wrote on 5/18/2018, 1:33 PM

DVDs are always MPEG2. BluRays can be MPEG or AVC (mpeg4). WAV audio is better quality than AC3, but only by a little bit because AC3 is a high quality lossy codec. AC3 is used to lower the bitrate for playback on DVD or BluRay and to allow more content on both.

john_dennis wrote on 5/18/2018, 1:40 PM

"They are 720x480 29.97fps. I convert these to 1920x1080 MPEG2 which works fairly decent when a couple of Vegas video effects are added to clean them up."

There is no good reason to upscale standard definition files for delivery on Blu-ray. The You can let the Blu-ray player hardware do the up-scaling for playback at the pixel dimensions of the display device.

Former user wrote on 5/18/2018, 1:42 PM

Yes, you are just wasting time upscaling. The hardware upscaler on your bluray player probably does a better job.

john_dennis wrote on 5/18/2018, 1:52 PM

If for some odd reason (like total disk space usage) you choose to deliver SD content using the AVC codecs you can build your own custom templates. A Sony AVC example: