• VEGAS Pro

  Rendering an H.264 File?

  Posted by Thomas Reget on December 24, 2010 at 5:49 pm

  I am having difficulty rendering out HD for broadcast. The file requirements from the broadcasters are:

  HD VIDEO
  1280X720p
  H.264 (MPEG-4) muxed as an Apple Quick Time .MOV
  16:9 29.97 frames/sec, (4.2.0 Chroma subsampling at an 8-bit depth
  Bitrate may be variable or constant and GOP structuree can be fixed 15 or dynamic

  HD AUDIO
  16 bit PCM Audio Only
  Sample Rate 48000 Hz
  Bitrate 128 or better
  2 Channel Stereo only.

  Can anyone point me to the corect rendering template and any internal tweaks required.

  John Rofrano replied 15 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  December 24, 2010 at 6:11 pm

  You can’t render this from within Vegas Pro because it doesn’t support h.264 in a Quicktime wrapper. You need to buy Quicktime Pro for this. Render your footage out of Vegas using uncompressed or Motion-JPEG or even Avid DNxHD (which you can downlaod for free) and then load that file into Quicktime Pro and render to h.264 from there.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Stephen Mann

  December 25, 2010 at 3:25 am

  John, I have a client (yes, he is an idiot) who won’t take *anything* but h.264 in a mov file. I downloaded and installed the Avid DNxHD codec, but it doesn’t show in my render-as menus. What am I looking for?

  Thanks
  Steve

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com
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  John Rofrano

  December 25, 2010 at 3:48 am

  [Stephen Mann] “I downloaded and installed the Avid DNxHD codec, but it doesn’t show in my render-as menus. What am I looking for?”

  You need to make a Quicktime template that uses it:

  1. Choose File | Render As…
  2. Select Quick Time 7 as the render type and Default Template (uncompressed) as the template. This will match your project properties.
  3. Then press the Custom… button and on the Video tab under Video format select Avid DNxHD Codec.
  4. Next press the Configure… button and configure the codec to the properties you need.
  5. Finally, save that under a name that is descriptive.

  You now have an Avid DNxHD template. I configured mine to use the 1080i/59.94 DNxHD 145 8-bit but you can use the 1080i/59.94 DNxHD 220 10-bit setting if you really want high quality.

  

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Haoran Zhou

  February 27, 2011 at 10:29 am

  Hi John I’m also rendering a HD video using Vegas Pro 10 and I have got the Avid DNxHD but the video output is not playable…Can you help me?

  Original File
  720p@24fps
  MJPG
  34601kbps

  And this is my setup page.
  
  I use 720p/23.976 DNxHD 90 8-bit

  Have I done anything wrong?
  Also the properties of the output file is showing “Avdn,” is this normal?
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  John Rofrano

  February 27, 2011 at 2:36 pm

  I’m not sure what could be wrong. I just created a template the same as yours and the output was playable in both Vegas and QuickTime player. As I said, I’m sure what could be wrong. You might want to contact Sony support because you seemed to have set up the template correctly.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com

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