[Brian Shircliffe]

No… I think it is normal…. If you want quality h.264 or WMV or whatever you CAN NOT get that while rendering. Rendering and compressing are completely separate. You can not get a high quality final compression with out the compression algorithm looking at the whole video stream. The best high quality codecs used in bluray and other formats are done from super high bit rate or uncompressed footage. You need to use a program that can do quality based VBR or 2 pass encoding with very long look ahead technology. When you render it cant look ahead until you have rendered the frames… so in effect it isnt any faster or slower to render and compress at the same time. It just slows down both processes cause the cpu has to switch process too often and leaves you with inferior render and compression. Besides Don’t you want to look at the full 100% quality of what you worked on, even if it is going on youtube? That way at least YOU saw the original perfect master BEFORE you compressed it 10 or 100:1.

We can’t complain, it is doing the best it can… I am sure there is a way to use x.264 with Vegas if you really want high quality compression, but Sony can’t make a codec that good for free.

[Brian Shircliffe]

I say the color correction with the gamma, gain, offset, and saturation are good while you are looking at your scopes. I use an old 24″ CRT to really see the full color gamut for blacks honestly I try to keep the blacks really black… I don’t do work for TV so I can get away with full range levels but I think it’s best to adjust each clip for it’s unique qualities. eyes are the best tool.

[Brian Shircliffe]

Well I had a hell weekend trying to get Vegas to work but I learned a lot.

One thing is always render in the highest quality codec you can. The sony AVC just sucks.. who cares if it is way faster if its ugly? it was only good for very quick preview quality renders where I just wanted to see the final project.

I recommend to render AT LEAST to the sony MXF 422 or main profile. These are very high quality and most encoders can read them.

I use handbrake which can see about anything.

I honestly just render straight to uncompressed AVI but it takes a lot longer for the destination hard drive to keep up so you will get a faster render with a more compressed codec but I like to switch the project over to 32 bit and render to something that can take advantage of that.. I got a few other codecs that I am going to play with.. anyone ever use cineform? I’ll look into after I figure stuff out.

Just returned my 460 and got a 560 so I am looking to see if that helps any with editing and rendering but I doubt it.

[Brian Shircliffe]

Yea same here even with bitrate of 20,000,000. And it isn\’t using my 460 gpu at all according to gpu-z I think Sony exaggerated the cuda benefits. I\’m exporting mxf 422 and using badaboom to convert to mp4 till I get premier