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Vegas 7 to FLV
First off, I don’t have squeeze or anything, I am just using the standalone flv encoder that comes with Flaxh 8. My question is, for video that is not DV (720×780-ntsc), is there an alternative to rendering from vegas as uncompressed in order to encode to FLV with the standalone encoder?
Thanks!
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[Tony Wall] “First off, I don’t have squeeze or anything, I am just using the standalone flv encoder that comes with Flaxh 8. My question is, for video that is not DV (720×780-ntsc), is there an alternative to rendering from vegas as uncompressed in order to encode to FLV with the standalone encoder?
Thanks!”
Yes, encode to quicktime then to flv. I usually match the frame size in QT to match the flv frame size.
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Cool… which codec for Quicktime?
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You have to set QT to a custom frame size 720×760 in Vegas rendering. Or take it down to 360×380 encode to QT and match that custom size (and frame rate) for the flv encoder.
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encode to uncompressed AVI… with progressive setting on your render settings…. it will be a big file but the flash 8 video encoder reads the AVI very well and you can change dimensions, quality & frame rate on the flash encoder… very good FLVs as final videos….
EOR
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First off, I don’t have squeeze or anything, I am just using the standalone flv encoder that comes with Flaxh 8. My question is, for video that is not DV (720×780-ntsc), is there an alternative to rendering from vegas as uncompressed in order to encode to FLV with the standalone encoder?
This is a little confusing since ntsc is either 720×480 or 720×486. Assuming you actually do have NTSC footage, the flash encoder will accept quite a few types of AVI files. You certainly don’t need to go to a quicktime codec (although you could if you wanted to).
I just tried rendering some footage to the Sony YUV format and then using that in the flash encoder. Seems to work okay but I can see that I could use Vegas to make this easier.
You should probably correct the pixel aspect ratio and deinterlace when you render from Vegas (assuming you need to, if it’s really NTSC then you do).
Try several shorter renders to see what you need to do. It looks as though the flash encoder will accept many codecs. You don’t need to feed it uncompressed footage.
Rob Mack
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Thanks folks! I was hoping to avoid uncompressed if possible but I guess I could install Quicktime pro and render to one of those codecs.
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You can render to QT right out of Vegas – ready to go.
There’s so much compression going on in any web-video codec, that starting from uncompressed footage is more than a bit of overkill.
I get great encodes going 1:1 – exact same frame size and frame rate – QT to FLV (I add a little sharpening and contrast to the QT encode)
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