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what’s the best settings for a quicktime render
Hi everyone I am editing a short film shot on canon 5d mark ii, on vegas 7 but when i try to render the movie as a quicktime file uncompressed, it just stops working after a short while saying that i don’t have enough memory but that is because the uncompressed quicktime on vegas is so huge that it never works. I need to have a final quicktime file , the movie is aimed at film festivals and we may even transfer it on 35mm. Please can you tell me which settings i should choose, or if i should upgrade to another version of vegas , just don’t tell me i should render it as MP4, i really need a higher standard.
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[Karl Dixon] “I need to have a final quicktime file , the movie is aimed at film festivals and we may even transfer it on 35mm. Please can you tell me which settings i should choose, or if i should upgrade to another version of vegas , just don’t tell me i should render it as MP4, i really need a higher standard.”
I assume by your last comment that you don’t want AVC/H.264 because that’s a valid QuickTime format as well.
If you want high quality QuickTime then you should download the Avid DNxHD codec and use that. It will give you very high quality with reasonable file sizes and works with both PC and Mac. Of course, when you submit to a film festival submission they may dictate what codecs you can use. That’s another reason to use DNxHD because it will hold it’s quality if you need to render to other formats.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Hi David
Thank you for your message, but I am not a user of avid and I dopn’t have time to learn it, I really need an answer about using vegas, but if vegas cannot provide what I need then I have a serious problem…Any advice? -
Karl, John isn’t recommending that you use Avid, he’s saying to use the free Avid codec that you install into Vegas and then use that format to render your final video.
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oups sorry John, I don’t know why I called you David!
I have another question : can the AVC 264 give a good qulity if transfeered into 35mm? also, as you know Vegas 7 doesn’t offer H.264 so what should I do? -
Oh ok!! I am downloading the DNxHD codec now! Sorry to ask another dumb question : how do I install itno vegas? I am fairly new at this (not new to vegas thoug!)
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Double-click the exe file and follow the instructions.
Load your project, choose MOV in the “Save as” box, click “Custom” and, in the video tab, pick “Avid DNxHD Codec” in the drop down box.
Click “Configure” for more options.
I don’t use this codec but I’m sure that a forum search will turn up suggestions for the appropriate render settings to use.
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OKIDOK§ THAT MAY SOUND STUPID BUT i CAN4T FIND THE EXE ON THE FILE I DOWNLOADED!!! only test frames and source…
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Go to the bottom of the page in the link that John gave and click on “QuickTime HD codec”.
This opens a new page with links to a zip file for the codec for Mac and Windows.
If you don’t want to do that, here’s the direct link.
https://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/supportfiles/attach/AvidCodecsLE_2_3_7/Win/AvidCodecsLESetup.zip -
[Karl Dixon] “I have another question : can the AVC 264 give a good qulity if transfeered into 35mm?”
So let’s understand something. Your camera the Canon 5D Mark II shoots AVC/h.264!!! So is your source good enough to transfer to 33mm film? You tell me… you’re looking at it. (which is why I was puzzled when you said, “… just don’t tell me i should render it as MP4, i really need a higher standard.” becasue you already have MP4/AVC h.264 footage in a MOV wrapper but I didn’t want to embarrass you by pointing that out).
[Karl Dixon] “also, as you know Vegas 7 doesn’t offer H.264 so what should I do?”
Update Vegas to a more modern version you’re only 4 versions behind. Seriously, I don’t know how you tolerate editing Canon 5D footage in Vegas 7. The newer versions play that back very smoothly but I didn’t think 7 handled it well at all.
Well… you could purchase QuickTime Pro for $25. That will allows you to create AVC/H.264 MOV files. Why do you need a MOV file?
~jr
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Thank you so much! It works very good!!! Just one last question, I did render a quicktime file which is fine but I had chosen in the configuration RGB colors, should I choose the 709 instead? what is the difference? any other settings or configurations to get the best result?
Again I am very happy now, thank you:-)
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