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Rendering 90 minute HD track in mp4 or mov
Hey guys,
Thanks again for all the help on my previous thread about rendering clips to be synched in Sony Vegas 8. It was very useful.
I’m having a different issue I’m hoping I can get help with. It’s about the same project. This time it’s with the HD video track that I shot.
Because the guy I’m working for is editing in imovie, he can’t view the mpeg2 video that I shot. So I tried rendering the 90 minute video in mp4 and VLC couldn’t open it for me, but I was hoping that it would play fine for him.
Sure enough it doesn’t, so now I’m not sure what to do as far as delivering him the video. In fact, I want to make sure I can render footage this long regardless just since I’ll want to be able to do this in the future, so I want to try to deliver this to him in whatever imovie can do-mp4 or mov.
But for now I’m trying to look into alternatives. For one thing, he needs to get Final Cut Pro if he wants to edit on Mac, or get some PC editing software.
I’m also trying to convince him to just let me edit the footage with him since I don’t think he realizes how much easier it will be than trying to do it with separate tracks in imovie. It’s a comedy show that myself and two other camera operators shot, and he wants all the footage synched up for him to edit.
But like I said, I still want to see if it’s possible to render this footage to play in mp4 or mov before I just try it and see the result in 20 hours. Though I render footage a lot in mp4 and it works fine and tested it on short clips and it worked fine.
Thanks.
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[Angelo Mike] “Sure enough it doesn’t, so now I’m not sure what to do as far as delivering him the video. In fact, I want to make sure I can render footage this long regardless just since I’ll want to be able to do this in the future, so I want to try to deliver this to him in whatever imovie can do-mp4 or mov.”
It is always chore to work with people who use a Mac because of the different formats used between the two platforms. I would render a QuickTime file using Motion JPEG A format and give it to him on a hard drive to edit. Start with a small file to make sure that iMovie can open it but it should be able to because M-JPEG is one of the standard QuickTime formats. You’ll have to make your own template for HD M-JPEG because one doesn’t exist. Just start with the QuickTime Default template, press Custom… and select “Motion JPEG A” as the Video format and save it.
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Haha, it is a pain, isn’t it? I didn’t realize he would be editing on imovie before we started, in which case I might have told him that he should just edit it with me.
Anyways, thanks John. I’ll try that and see how it works.
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