Can Vegas render to webm format?

[László Kovács]

So here it comes…
10647_webmconvert.zip
Just unzip it anywhere, and run.
This small program requires ffmpeg.exe to be in the same directory, where it is launched from. I also packed ffmpeg.exe, but you can replace it any time you wish -for example a new version comes out-. You can download it from ffmpeg.org.
I also uploaded the source, in case you -or anone else- decides to improve it:
10648_webmconvertsource.zip
You need Lazarus IDE to compile it.

Originally I wanted to hide ffmpeg window, and display a progress bar instead while it is working. But I don’t have experience about webm converting, there may be other bugs in this program, so I decided to let ffmpeg be visible, so it’s possible to track what it’s exactly doing.
If you find this tool stable and reliable, we can do this improvement later.
Go, get and try it!
And let me know what modifications you need 😉

Best regards

László Kovács

[Scott Francis]

THIS IS AWESOME!!!

Thank you so much!!
Have you ever considered building a GUI for ffmpeg as a whole? I know I would use it if I didn’t have to do all the coding and so forth, just a question, would likely be useful to many!! Likely could generate some revenue as well.

One other issue I always run into is trying to connect the multiple clips my GH4 creates into one long file (I shoot a lot of long concerts and so forth). When using 4k stuff, it drops a lot of clips in a short timeframe.
I don’t always want to look at my footage in my NLE or want to re-render things out for clients to preview raw footage.
Does ffmpeg have that capability?

Thanks again so much!!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[László Kovács]

Thank you for your kind words, and you’re welcome ?
The very hard work is done by the developers of ffmpeg, and they give it free to everyone. I won’t accept money for something I did based on the free ffmpeg, using an also free great tool (namely Lazarus).
ffmpeg has tremendeous options (and I don’t know all of them), I believe, if all of them would appear on a single GUI, that GUI would be overwhelmed. So I don’t think it is possible to cover all ffmpeg options in a gui, which is still useable.
This webm converting work needs only few options of
ffmpeg.
I believe, the required options are accessible now for you, for this task. ?
Regarding the other task you mentioned, it is the concatenating. And yes, ffmpeg can do that ?
I can take that job too, but next week only.

Best regards

László Kovács

[Scott Francis]

That would be really helpful. I have spent about 20 hours looking for something to concatenate these files, but they never work. Probably have tried 20-30 programs, all to no avail or they re-encode which defeats the purpose.
Would you require some GH4 footage to find specific format info? I could upload some to Dropbox and give you the link…

Thanks again so much, this has been really helpful and MUCH appreciated!!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Vladimir Zhe]

This free ffmpeg GUI covers pretty much any conversion/rewrapping/chopping tasks:
https://www.videotovideo.org/
It’s a shame that developer(s) have abandoned this product before they coded in a H265/HEVC option. Maybe some good wizard on this forum would be able to add it into the existing set? Good karma and frequent positive mentioning as a reward 🙂

Vegas 11 x64, i7 & 6Gb RAM, Nvidia GeForce GT 330M (CUDA) – No crashes!

[László Kovács]

This seems to be a very nice program. Thanks for mentioning, I was not aware of it.
However, this is not a gui for ffmpeg, but a standalone program, which uses ffmpeg libraries. (Like VLC player).

Best regards

László Kovács