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Rendering an MPEG 2
I have Sony Vegas 9 movie maker, not the Pro version. I’m trying to render a video in MPEG 2 format using the “custom” settings. The custom button is not available. It does work for other settings including MPEG 1. Is there a way to customize the settings when rendering an MPEG 2 video? I need to adjust the bit rate. Thank you for any information.
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It’s been a long time since I’ve used the non-pro version of Vegas but I believe losing the MPEG-2 custom button was one of its limitations. At least, that’s what I recall. Limited number of tracks I remember clearly (picture Edvard Munch’s The Scream). Losing some of the rendering custom buttons I believe was also a limitation.
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If you don’t mind a couple of extra steps to get your MPEG-2 output then a possible solution would be to output to a free lossless encoder format like Lagarith as an AVI file and then use an AVI to MPEG-2 converter to generate at your desired bitrate. I haven’t used it but TMPGenc can make the conversion. There are probably free MPEG-2 converters which can also do the job.
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I was afraid of that. I guess I’ll just have to keep saving my money to go Pro. Thank you for you confirming yet another Movie Maker limitation.
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