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gotta have an h.264 (not really vegas related…)
As I’ll tell anyone who asks me, I’m a Sony Vegas user, and on the whole, quite happy about it. The one thing I must concede though, is that the lack of h.264 .mov renders can cause problems…leading me here. (I realize that this question doesn’t pertain directly to Vegas, but I was hoping for some assistance nonetheless. If there’s a more appropriate place to put this, let me know.)
I have a pair of HD projects that need to be finalized and ready for blu-ray. While I could do this fairly easily myself, these pieces are part of a larger compilation. As nearly everyone else involved works on Mac, the person doing the assembly/burn has insisted upon a quicktime h.264 file. I stress that no other format will be accepted.
Other than Vegas, I have a copy of After Effects (though my 2 attempts at h.264 renders thus far have yielded less than desirable results). I can also get access to another pc with Adobe Premiere if necessary. If either of these can provide the files I need, detailed render settings would be appreciated.
If not, ANY suggestions as to alternative software/tools would be welcomed. These files need to be ready by the 19th, so I have a little breathing room, but not much.
Thanks.
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Could you render uncompressed from Vegas, then render the final in Quicktime (or whatever software you use for h.264)?
Dale
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You could buy Quicktime Pro $29USD and create them from there. Just render from Vegas in a high quality and encode to h.264 with Quicktime Pro.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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John,
What do you mean by “in a high quality” more specifically? -
What do you mean by “in a high quality” more specifically?
You could render to Quicktime Uncompressed, Animation, or PNG codecs. All of those are lossless.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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So, several days later, and out of other options, I went ahead and bought quicktime pro. Tried out an h.264 render from a dnxhd file (made prior) I’d pulled from vegas, but didn’t get the quality I was hoping for.
I went back into vegas to export a high quality animation, when quicktime decided to throw another surprise at me: now, all .mov files in my timeline have lost video (audio is still present, video does play back in quicktime player, and vegas still recognizes the clip as having a video stream).
The .mov files were h.264 rendered by someone else working off a Mac (GSpot identifies the codec as mp4v, though my codec status says ‘undetermined’ which I think is a new development), however, vegas had no trouble with the files until this update.
I’m fairly certain that the problem originates from the fact that I updated quicktime, and not that this is the pro version as opposed to basic.
I’m assuming there’s probably an easy fix for this problem (such as installing an older version of quicktime), but I’ve got to say that right now I’m feeling more than a little cheated out of $30. Couple that with the fact that I need this material rendered and ready for tomorrow…let’s just say I’m really hoping you guys can pull me out of a tight spot.
*fingers crossed*
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The latest Vegas Pro 9.0d update fixes the problem with Quicktime 7.6.6. Otherwise downgrade Quicktime to 7.6.4 and Vegas will work again.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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You may actually be able to hear my sigh of relief across the internet. I’d been meaning to update to 9.0d for a while, but I’ve just been too busy to get around to it. Didn’t think it’d actually mean the difference between the life and death of my project.
At any rate, updating Vegas absolutely did the trick. Many thanks.
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So what did i do wrong..? I upgraded quicktime to 7.6.6 and upgraded to vegas 9.0d but im still getting blank video with sound.
Does anyone have a link to quicktime 7.6.4???
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