DivX and Xvid errors

[Laszlo Kovacs]

I had successes with xvid.

Could you give more info?
Error message?
Settings?

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Laca

[Nomar25]

Thanks for helping. I have Vegas 5d and got the xvid codec. I have an error message saying “An error occured during the current operation. An Exception has occured.” Vegas needs to be closed after that.

My settings for my project are 1920 x 1080 with a PAR of 1.0 and in progressive. I am rendering an uncompressed AVI that has the same settings and applied color correction to it. I am rendering this out in order to view it on my HD Monitor that is 1920×1080 in square pixels. This is an animation type of clip too that is 10 seconds long.

My Xvid settings are: Project is set at best quality with no audio. frame size is use project settings, NTSC frame rate, prog. scan, PAR of 1.0, Xvid MPEG-4 codec.

The Configure tab of the codec sttings are: single pass, 1.0 target quantizer at 9600 kbps, unrestricted profile with MPEG type quantization with quarter pixel and B-VOPs checked and the aspect ratio of square 1:1.

The quality preset tab settings: Motion search precision is 6 and VHQ mode is 4 and Use chroma motion is checked.

In other options tab: FourCC used is “XVID”.

When I start rendering it, after a couple seconds, Vegas crashes. I have rendered this same file out in WMV9 format and it looks good on the monitor. I heard this Xvid codec would give me better results. Please help. I have Xp64, Dell Precision 670, 2.8 GHz with 2.0 GB of RAM.

[Laszlo Kovacs]

I need some time to investigate, to be in help for you, but:

[Nomar25] “I have rendered this same file out in WMV9 format and it looks good on the monitor. I heard this Xvid codec would give me better results.”

I really doubt this.

I have rendered 352*288 25fps 256 kbps video using XviD-1.0.3-20122004.
2 pass rendering.

Vegas 5 built in 256kbps wmv resized to the same dimensions (352*288)
gave MUCH better image quality.

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Laca