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  Sony Vegas problem with h.264

  Posted by Nanno Maroof on February 14, 2011 at 12:04 am

  Hi, I’m new and newbie here and I need help…

  I’m trying now Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 after using version 7 because the latter didn’t accept h.264 files.

  But also HD Platinum 10 does not accept all my h.264 files – after rewrapping them into .m2ts using tsmuxer. Some are accepted and the others just cause the pro to crash.
  So I’m wondering actually about several things…

  Is there another codec like h.264 – I mean with such quality and small size, SV would accept – I can convert to? cuz all the codecs I know of with similar quality produce way too big file sizes. I have too many files and I can’t afford big-size files.

  If it’s a problem in SV version or “model” i.e. Movie Studio or pro..etc, What would be your recommendation.

  thanks in advance

  Nanno Maroof replied 15 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Stephen Mann

  February 14, 2011 at 3:23 am

  h.264 is a delivery format and not well suited for editing. What is your source?

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com
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  Nanno Maroof

  February 14, 2011 at 3:40 am

  Sorry, this might seem stupid but I don’t know what you mean by source or delivery format
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  Graham Bernard

  February 14, 2011 at 6:14 am

  Source = Where you got the Media from: Camera and format, DVD, etc

  Delivery = Where you will use the finished video: DVD, Blue Ray, INTERNET, etc

  Grazie

  …
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  Stephen Mann

  February 14, 2011 at 1:28 pm

  Delivery formats are heavily compressed. They “look” good because it’s easy to fool your brain into filling in the missing data. The decoders do a pretty good job of guessing the approximate data between i-frames (i-frames are a complete image, only compressed as a JPEG image). Here’s the best explanation that I’ve seen for i-frames: https://support.slingbox.com/get/KB-2000081.html

  Delivery formats are very bad for editing because the processor has to reconstruct all of the data between the i-frames. While your eye/brain is very forgiving, the PC is not. This is why heavily compressed formats, like MPEG and AVCHD require very fast processors.

  The source is, where did the video file come from?

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com
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  Nanno Maroof

  February 15, 2011 at 1:45 am

  Thanks for the explanation. I downloaded them from the internet and I intend to make videos for youtube.

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