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What format to encode .VEG files to get into Flash .FLV
Heya Team,
Am wondering what format you folks use as an intermediate step for getting Vegas sessions into .FLV flash format.
I know Vegas can’t render to flash directly.
I’m using Sorenson Squeeze 4.3 for Flash.
Curious what format y’all use as an intermediate step. MPEG 2? AVI? Windows Media?
Thx in advance!
Steve
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6 Replies
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Thought about frameserving?
If not frameserving, I’d go with DV-AVI which is less lossy than MPEG2 or WMV. However, it somewhat depends on the source. If it’s short enough, you could always go uncompressed AVI.
Edward Troxel
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Would love to learn more about the frameserving option… Is this something offered in Excalibur? Tried to locate some threads on this but couldn’t come up with anything.
Thanks much in advance!
Steve
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I usually just use a high quality wmv. Depending on what size my final flv is going to be at. If it is going to be only 320×240 I obviously don’t render out with the HD preset. 😉 The flv’s from sorenson come out just fine.
As a test, I just tried frame serving, and Sorenson took it, but when trying to squeeze it, it just hangs and about 5 minutes later 1% shows up. This is for a 15 sec clip. If it is working it would take a lifetime. So I don’t think that is the right option. Render it out.
If you want the best, just do uncompressed avi.
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I tried frame serving before from Vegas to another encoder and it was incredibly slow.. I don’t have a super duper computer, but the slow down was very obvious from what it does with the built in encoders in Vegas
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By far the best and quickest results I have obtained was by rendering out an uncompressed QuickTime at the pixel size you want the final .flv to be, say 320×240 or whatever your choice is, this really holds the quality, and then using Flash Video 2 and outputting an .flv of the same size. Very good results.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney
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