Sony Vegas & Encoding for Comcast

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Sean–

Not sure what to tell you about MPEG2, but I submit spots to Comcast as well (I’m in Oregon) and I arranged to send them MOV/H264 files and they have no problem with them (and look better). If you pull too many hairs out, maybe you could do the same (?) If so, and if you’ve got Sorenson Squeeze, I could point you to a downloadable preset that makes nice files that all the local stations here like just fine.

–Kelly

[Sean Robinson]

Kelly,

Thanks for the feedback – I would love to see that preset. What format do you feed into Squeeze for those spots?

[Kelly Griffin]

Hey Sean–

Just go to the “Get more presets” part of Squeeze and you can download it. I think it’s called “broadcast_H264_SD”.

So far, all I’ve been doing is rendering uncompressed MOVs and importing them to Squeeze and outputting the final H264 files. They look great, and a 30-sec. spot goes from about 1.6GB to about 75MB.

By the way, I typically have to upload to a lot of stations here, and every one of them have different specs. I asked them all to humor me on a file test to see if I could find one flavor that fit them all. The MOV/H264 worked for everybody, so it took the insanity out of spot distribution. If you find yourself in the same boat, you might ask your stations to try it as well.

–Kelly

[Sean Robinson]

Thanks for the tips, Kelly – I’ll check out that workflow.

[John Rofrano]

Also see if they will accept MXF format. You can render with Sony MXF using the HD422 1920×1080-60i 50 Mbps template and that should give you 50Mbps MPEG2 using 422 color space in an MXF wrapper.

~jr

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[Raf Erosa]

I am also trying to upload to comcast server. Did you find any settings inside of Vegas that helped? or did you have to install 3rd party plug ins?

-Vegas 11 700 32bit

[Kelly Griffin]

Raf–

When you say you’re trying to upload, do you mean “make a file to upload” or “upload a file to Comcast”?

My latest spec sheet says that MPEG-2 is a preferred format, and I’ve got the Comcast mother ship upload instructions if you want to email me for it.

–Kelly

kelly@kgcreative.biz

[Raf Erosa]

I just sent u an email with a document comcast gave me. I am trying to render my video project to an acceptable video file that i can upload to the comcast server.

[Raf Erosa]

I just sent u an email with a document comcast gave me. I am trying to render my video project to an acceptable video file that will look good when aired.

In addition to this, How lonng does it take for you to render a 30 min TV show for comcast? It takes me about 6 hours. I am not sure if thatt is normal.