Mpeg 4 For Vegas

[Rick Mac]

Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8 does support MPEG-4
import and export.

Not sure if it will work but you might try downloading a
free MPEG-4 Codec such as Xvid and see if Vegas Studio 6 will then let you render using the Xvid codec.

You might also look into a free format converter program that could transcode your edited video from avi to mpeg-4.

If it were me, I would just go ahead and purchase Studio 8.
But if money is tight you could try the free route.

Regards, Rick.

[Magicmountainman]

Thanks for the info! I was looking for a free codec, but couldn’t find any. Can anyone give me a link?

What’s the advantage of upgrading to Vegas 8? I didn’t see any differences worth the thirty dollars. But I was considering to platinum. Are the New Blue effects that come with Vegas Platinum any good? The audio scrubbers would be useful.

-Brandon

[Rick Mac]

Here is the link to the Free XVID Codec:
https://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html

Here is the link to a free format converter:
https://www.majorgeeks.com/Any_Video_Converter__d5692.html

NewBlue FX are pretty cool. I use them a lot.

Regards, Rick.

[Magicmountainman]

How are the audio effects from New Blue? Are they any good? Or would I be better off just getting Sound Forge?

[Rick Mac]

[MagicMountainMan] “How are the audio effects from New Blue? Are they any good? Or would I be better off just getting Sound Forge?”

Well, NewBlue Effects are just that, effect processors, such as eq’s, compressors, etc. They work within the Vegas interface. They are quite useful. Soundforge is a full blown audio editing program. It has some functions and features that you do not get within Vegas. My favorite trick with Soundforge is to highlight a section of audio within the Vegas timelime that I want to process, send it over to Soundforge and process it, then save it, and when I go back to Vegas the changes are already applied to the event.

Vegas will allow you to export a event (clip) out to your just about any audio editor for tweeking, not just Soundforge.

NewBlue has a lot of templates for it’s processing effects to get you going fast at sweetening your audio.

The NewBlue Video effects are pretty cool to.

Perhaps if you told me what you want to do with either NewBlue or Soundforge I could give you better recommendation.

Regards, Rick.

[Magicmountainman]

Alright, I’d like to mainly get rid of unwanted camera humming and zooming noises. Also, I’d just like better control over my audio period.

I’d also like to make music to go with a music video, but I kinda figured that Sound Forge would be a lot better for that.

[Rick Mac]

OK, for noise reduction tools for humming camera and noises, I would reccommend Adobe Soundbooth or Adobe Audition. I have booth Sound Forge and Adobe Audition (soundbooth has many of the same tools as Audition minus multitrack). I like the noise reduction tools best in Audition. You can tell Vegas to make Audition your default audio editor to send audio events to it for processing. Soundbooth is more user friendly than Audition. It is designed more for video editors. Audition is a full fledged do it all program.

If you are going to need multitrack audio I would go with Audition instead of Soundbooth. Sound Forge is a very good program but if noise reduction is your thing, I think Audition has an the edge.

Hope this helps ya.

Regads, Rick.

[David Knight]

once downloaded, is there any more actions I need to take to allow mp4 files to work in vegas? I have vegas pro 9.0.

Thanks,

Dave