• VEGAS Pro

  Best Settings for No Loss of Quality in Vegas Pro 9 output ready for Squeeze

  Posted by Ian Smith on November 5, 2009 at 10:14 pm

  Hi,

  I want to edit my video using Sony Vegas Pro 9, but compress it for web publication using Sorenson Squeeze which gives me more options. What I don’t want to do is have Sony do one set of compression and then Squeeze do another so that I get the nasty “compression of a compression” effect.

  My input material is from a Sony PMW-EX1 which is supported directly by Vegas Pro 9. My final format is H.264. What render format/output should I use in Vegas pro to maintain the highest quality of output ready for input to Sorenson Squeeze. I effectively want to edit in “raw” format, add titles, effects etc and then render out to the same quality as I have with “raw” for input to Squeeze.

  Ian

  Jonathan Clauson replied 16 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  D. Eric franks

  November 6, 2009 at 2:55 am

  Any uncompressed format will do. For AVI, HuffyYUV or Lagarith (JR converted me to this format!). For QuickTime the Animation codec is more or less lossless at 100%. PNG is a good option too, but it takes longer and the files aren’t that much smaller (and are sometimes larger). Disc space is cheap, in any case, and you can delete the gigantic uncompressed intermediaries at the project’s conclusion, safe in the assumption that you can always rerender if necessary.
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  Or Tal

  November 6, 2009 at 1:26 pm

  Lagarith AVI is one the best to compress h.264 from !!!

  good luck

  Or Tal
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  Lliam Evans

  November 8, 2009 at 7:16 am

  I’m having a problem where my video has a constant motion-blur-like effect when i compile it, but when i play it off the explore tab on preview, it looks fine. Can anyone help?
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  Jonathan Clauson

  April 23, 2010 at 11:45 am

  Hello All!

  I am going to throw my question into the ring as well. I have FCP 7 and the editor I have to share footage with is fairly new (not that I am a great genius either) and bought VEGAS before considering how well it plays with others….which isn’t very well from everything I have been hearing.

  We are only dealing with SD footage so does the same still apply for export settings? QuickTime with JPG encoding or is there a better way for him to export footage so that when I get it I don’t have to reencode it and further loose quality?

  Thanks much@

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