Unable to render vertical videos for Instagram

[John Bolton]

What is the Media you are using?

Download this Program to are check your video and post the results

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

[Ryan Jose]

Hi John, Thanks for the info.

My media differs from client to client, but mostly mp4 (if that’s what you are pertaining to)

I have tried the mediainfo link that you suggested and this is what I’ve got for one of my projects that I tried rendering for Instagram: (file attached)

I’m just also preparing myself for clients who need Instagram videos as I am a freelance video editor.

General
Complete name : arc1.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp42/mp41)
File size : 48.8 MiB
Duration : 20 s 17 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 20.5 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-04-09 17:08:29
Tagged date : UTC 2020-04-09 17:08:40
TIM : 17:15:51:13
TSC : 60
TSZ : 1

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4.2
Format settings : CABAC / 2 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=2, N=120
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 20 s 17 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 20.3 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 768 kb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 60.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.163
Stream size : 48.5 MiB (99%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2020-04-09 17:08:29
Tagged date : UTC 2020-04-09 17:08:29
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Codec configuration box : avcC

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 20 s 17 ms
Source duration : 20 s 53 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 126 kb/s
Maximum bit rate : 202 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 307 KiB (1%)
Source stream size : 307 KiB (1%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2020-04-09 17:08:29
Tagged date : UTC 2020-04-09 17:08:29

Thanks for the help John! I appreciate it!

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi Ryan

I did manage to reproduce your problem by trying to render with the SONY AVC/MVC (*.mp4;*.m2ts;*.avc). I got the same error message.

I rendered without any problems using MainConcept AVC/AAC (*.mp4;*.avc) with these settings:

The only changes that I’ve made to the template was by choosing (Custom Frame Size) and changing the Width and Height and the bit rate.

Let us know if it worked for you.

Cheers !

PC Win 10 Pro 64-bit 16gb
Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core 4.60GHz
Radeon RX 5700 XT
Cameras: Canon XF305 + Canon XH-A1 and a bunch of others
Vegas Pro 16, User since Vegas 3.0

\’\’When the cutting stops, the editing begins…\’\’

[Ryan Jose]

Hi Francois,

Thank you very much for this suggestion! I will try that!!!

Ryan

[John Bolton]

I also found that when I tested it that it worked with MainConcept AVC/AAC.

John

[Ryan Jose]

That’s great! I will be trying Main Concept AVC/AAC. Thanks again John!

Cheers,

Ryan

[John Bolton]

Don’t forget to let us all know if it works as it will help others,,

[Ryan Jose]

Hi John and Francois,

Sorry for the delayed response. I just tried it right now and realized that my settings seems different. I forgot to mention I am using Vegas Pro 17.

What I have are:

MainConcept MPEG-1
MainConcept MPEG-2

The only option that I have with AVC/AAC is MAGIX AVC/AAC MP4. This one worked, I was able to render the video but the video is still the same landscape 16:9 orientation instead of the 9:16 aspect ratio.

(My apologies, I’m a newbie here and I don’t know how to post a screenshot of my render settings window)

Thank you very much for the help guys! I greatly appreciate it!

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi Ryan

If you look at my first post, if you set your render parameters exactly to mine, to you get the same results ?

Cheers !

PC Win 10 Pro 64-bit 16gb
Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core 4.60GHz
Radeon RX 5700 XT
Cameras: Canon XF305 + Canon XH-A1 and a bunch of others
Vegas Pro 16, User since Vegas 3.0

\’\’When the cutting stops, the editing begins…\’\’

[John Bolton]

HI, it looks like MainConcept AVC/ACC is disable in the Internal Preferences.

So go to the Option settings at the top of the screen and the Hold Down the SHIFT key and select Preferences. You will now see an Additional tab called Internal. In the search box at the bottom type MAIN and then when you see that in the list change FALSE to TRUE

You will now see that Option in the MainConcept render selection