Render For Americhip

[Mark Prebonich]

I thought a screen shot might be helpful regarding the info from the video clip.

[Jeff Schroeder]

Mark,

I’ve seen these (greeting) cards. How did you get in? Do you think you’ll be able to replace the video?

Interested, please tell more.

Jeff

http://www.narrowroadmedia.com

[John Rofrano]

[Mark Prebonich] “What settings should I use in Vegas in order to accomplish getting my video to this format? I didn’t see where this was an option. “

You need to download and install the Xvid codec and then make an AVI template that includes Xvid video with MP3 audio.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Mark Prebonich]

Jeff, I completely dissected the device to get to know how it works. I am attempting to get another intact one from work. I suspect that it should not be to hard. The pharmaceutical reps where I live are actually quite aggressive to push their products. There is a micro USB connection in the device. Plug that into the computer and open the device and the battery will go into a charging mode. There are actually three push buttons. Only one is labeled. The other two are directly below the first. Just push the first labeled button and then button #2 under the first and then the bottom button in that order and the device will then become recognized by the computer. The videos are in a folder. There is a conversion utility on the Americhip website. It is quite limited in terms of size up upload though. I sent in a test video. This converted the video to AVI Xvid. I then replaced it in the appropriate folder. It worked great. It has definitely been fun to learn about this.

John, I have been hearing many times over the risks of installing codecs. I have done some additional reading about Xvid. Sony doesn’t actually support this format. There are some videos on YouTube that show what you are suggesting. If there is a risk in doing this, then I probably won’t take the risk. If this codec is OK, then I’ll give it a try. Thanks.

-Mark

[John Rofrano]

[Mark Prebonich] “John, I have been hearing many times over the risks of installing codecs. I have done some additional reading about Xvid. Sony doesn’t actually support this format. There are some videos on YouTube that show what you are suggesting. If there is a risk in doing this, then I probably won’t take the risk. If this codec is OK, then I’ll give it a try. Thanks.”

Mark, It’s good that you’re mindful of this sort of thing. I have Xvid installed on my editing workstation without any problems. It’s an open source project and is safe to install. Just make sure that you download it from the “official” site. Then you just need to make a template for it under Video for Windows (AVI).

When Sony says that they don’t support the Xvid codec, they mean that they don’t support editing the codec. Indeed placing Xvid files on the timeline cause problems. This has nothing to do with rendering to the codec. Just make a template with Xvid video and MP3 audio and you should be all set.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Mark Prebonich]

John, thank you for your assistance thus far. I am running into some difficulties with regard to getting the bitrate correct. When I render using the xvid codec, my test video comes out to 92160 (I rendered this one without sound). You can see the information for the original video. The movie clip is one that I rendered via MPEG-2 and then sent in to Americhip directly for file conversion. As you can see the bitrate for that one went down from 1128 to 628. Their original video looks pretty sharp when played with WMP even at a larger size. I would appreciate your helping me in order to set this codec properly. I’ve tried a number of settings but perhaps I am overlooking an obvious choice. Thanks.

-Mark