[Darren Macnally]

Thank you that was it, the mask. I never noticed it before I guess.

I’m using Sony Vegas Pro 12. Thank you very much, a great help

[Darren Macnally]

Seems like you have it yeah, but your explanation was so simple I can’t imagine I didn’t try it! I didn’t just run to the forums with the first problem I came across, I was stuck on this for a long time experimenting the pan/crop settings etc.

Anyway, I’ll try it when I get home from work in a few hours and post my reply if it works (or if it doesnt), thanks for the help

[Darren Macnally]

Is there no video converter that just doesn’t do a compression?

I am using the lagarith lossless codec while recording. It’s great, my footage comes out looking just as it did at recording. It creates it in a .avi file. However, Sony Vegas’ preview feature doesnt work with this for me for some reason. So I want to convert the .avi to a .mp4 or something that the preview does work with.

That’s the dilema. Ideally, I wouldnt need a conversion, like I said before, My older PC (which was 2-3 times less powerful) took the .avi file in Sony Vegas no problems.

[Darren Macnally]

Okay so I tried the Super video converter that was mentioned above.
Even with Top Quality and High Quality settings, with no resolution change and the highest bitrate option there is a still a visible drop in quality of the converted video.

Can someone reccomend, or perhaps show me the settings of the Super Converter that will not drop the quality below 95% of the original?

Or can someone reccomend a video converter that doesn’t drop quality and will convert a .avi to a .wmv or .mp4 file type.

Much appreciated. The converter “Super” wasn’t ideal for me anyway because it requires you to click a few options after each conversion and I could have 4-5 at a time overnight and can’t select the option.

Alternativly if there is a solution to the preview problem that would be even better! Don’t give up on me yet guys

[Darren Macnally]

I feel I have everything my older computer had except this new computer is windows 8.

I guess I’ll just have to go the video conversion route. Any reccomendations on what’s the best converter to use?

It’s very important to me that I don’t lose any visible quality in the conversion.

[Darren Macnally]

Like what do you mean? In recording with the lagarith lossless codec.

The weird thing like I said is my last machine could handle all this same stuff fine.