Vegas to Flash 8 encoder

MH_Stevens wrote on 1/21/2006, 12:34 PM

I don't see anything in the Vegas manual about rendering for a web player such as Flash. I need put a 4 or 5 minuet movie on a web site. I have the Flash 8 encoder so I guess I use this but do I first render from a HD .veg file to mpeg then take it into the flash encoder or is there a better work flow?

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rmack350 wrote on 1/21/2006, 1:08 PM

I've not seen the flash8 codec come up in Vegas (it'd be listed as VP6, I assume.) With Flash MX2004 you could use quicktime pro to transcode to Flash7 even if you had only installed the trial version of flash and then removed it. The encoder seemed to remain and even though you could access the encoder through QT pro, QT Pro didn't provide it to Vegas.

From what I've seen, you need to encode to an intermediate in Vegas and then drop that onto the flash encoder. The encoder will accept a number of file types. WMV worked, although I'm not recommending it. You should do some short test encodes to find out what seems best for you. I'd start with AV files rather than mpeg.

After you get the FLV file you still need to import it into Flash and then publish it with a controller skin. There are other tools out there to do this if you prefer. I think On2 has their own set of tools that wil encode the file and create the player skin, but these aren't cheap.

Rob Mack

kdm wrote on 1/21/2006, 7:07 PM

Flash 8 Video Encoder can take avi, mov, dv, mp4, mpg and wmv files. It works very well, and is the only way I know of to create an FLV. I also recommend using FLV over trying to imbed .mov or .avi files - it's more efficient, better integrated and can be setup to stream if you have a flash server.

The On2 codec (in Flash 8 Video Enc) provides higher quality for the same rate than Sorenson Spark, but is slower to encode, and may not be compatible with older computers.

I too recommend starting from AVI, running that through the flv encoder, then importing into your flash movie.

rmack350 wrote on 1/21/2006, 9:50 PM

On2 also sells their own encoder. It's cheaper than Flash, but not cheap. Looks like it has many more features though. If it was something I was billing for I'd probably buy the On2 tools even though I own Flash Pro 8.

Rob Mack