vv3 final render will not play on other computers

jakethesnake wrote on 3/12/2002, 11:29 AM
Need some help here! I've captured video from by DV camera using Vegas
Video 3 on Windows XP, everything works great! I edit the final video,
render it in AVI format and everything also works great, and the avi plays
just find on my computer. Now the problem happens when I try to play the
same AVI file on another computer, it looks real choppy and the sound is
horrible. I tried rendering my edited movie in almost every format that it
allows me too(RA, mpeg, mpeg2, wmv, quicktime) but it never seems to play
well on other pc's, but all of them work fine on my pc. I've been using
windows media player and real audio player to play these but none of them
play well, most of the time it will try to download a new codec for the file
format but sometimes it says no codec is available or it will download a
codec and it still plays horrible. Is this some issue with Sonic's Vegas
Video? Any ideas or suggestions would be great!
Thanks

Comments

Cheesehole wrote on 3/12/2002, 2:38 PM
DV avi's work great on other PCs for me if you want full quality.

for sharing files, I usually compress to Windows Media, 320x240 15fps at 250kbps or higher. most people can play them as long as they have a connection to the net for the player to get the necessary codec. they play fine, nice and smooth.

have you tried playing files that weren't create with VV on these 'other' pc's? it isn't very likely to be a Vegas related issue.
falz wrote on 3/12/2002, 3:23 PM
For any video (or audio for that matter) to work on a 'different' pc, they need the codec installed. Render your video to a codec that is common across PC's. I beleive that VV3 does NOT use the MS codec that comes with the last few versions of windows, which could be your issue. You could render it to anything you want, mpeg, uncompressed avi, quicktime, or some of the older AVI standards.
Caruso wrote on 3/12/2002, 7:53 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the codec only came into play during the render process. Once created, I would think an avi should play on any machine with the necessary horsepower to handle it.

The computer networked to my video 'workhorse' is only a 233mhz. If I take the time to bother sending an avi across the network to the other computer's HD, it may open, but, often won't play well. If the picture doesn't start/stop as the machine gasps for more processing power, then the sound gets choppy for the same reason.

Also, I find that, if I depart from the DV template in any great way, I often end up with files that won't play smoothly on either machine. About the only changes I make to the template are to set rendering quality to "best" and check the resample box if appropriate for the veg file being rendered.

Caruso
Cheesehole wrote on 3/13/2002, 2:52 AM
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the codec only came into play during the render process. Once created, I would think an avi should play on any machine with the necessary horsepower to handle it.

CODECs are needed to DECode as well as enCODe. or something like that. :D

you definitely need the codec installed on the computer to play a file. you might be thinking of DV compression... a standard DV AVI should play on a PC with the MS DV codec installed no matter who's codec was used to encode the file. so if you render with VV3 using the SF DV codec, the file will play on any deck, camera, or PC with a DV codec installed. I think you just have to install directX 8.1..?

you might not notice it, but Media Player automatically downloads most codecs from the internet as it needs them.

- ben (cheesehole!)