Sony Vegas Poor Xvid Performance

[Stephen Mann]

I’m looking for a good balance between compression and quality.

There is no balance. If you want quality, don’t compress. More compression equals lower quality. Always. If you’re editing compressed video, the more compressed it is, the harder the processor has to work to decompress it for editing.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[John Rofrano]

[Justin Loebel] “I don’t have the capacitity to natively capture that that, so I will need to convert.”

What formats can you capture with? You might want to purchase an M-JPEG codec if AVI is your capture container (they are only about $29). That would mean that you don’t have to convert.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Justin Loebel]

So I’m revisiting this as I’m going to have a ton of footage to compress after this weekend.

One requirement I have is that I have to run jobs in a batch and TMPGEnc Xpress works good for this. Do you know if the motion-jpg or MPEG2-HDV will populate a template in Xpress after they’re installed? Also, what container would these formats be in or does it matter?

I got excited to see AVCHD was listed in the new TMPGEnc application but it didn’t have 30fps and 60fps file outputs for some reason.