[Frank Manno]

Thanks John for your response again..

I’m starting to get it. I think. So they are both h.264, that’s the main thing I needed to understand.

If I dissregarded the presets and I put my own custom settings in both the Sony AVC and then also the MainConcept AVC and made the settings the same, will they then essentially more or less be the ‘same’ codec??

Is this just a case of the same thing but different brand? Sony v MainConcept??

[John Rofrano] “Take a look at the templates that Sony provides and that should tell you a lot. They recommend MainConcept AVC for Apple iPod type of renders. They recommend Sony AVC for AVCHD, Blu-ray, and Internet video. The MainConcept encoder supports variable bit-rate which is good when you need really small files, while the Sony AVC only supports constant bit-rate.

[Frank Manno] “I was under the impression that the Mainconcept one is H.264 and that the Sony one is not. Am I right?”
No, they are both AVC/H.264 codecs. They’re just made by two different companies and Sony licensed the MainConcept one before they created their own so both are in the product more for historical reasons.

I mostly just use the Sony AVC codec and haven’t had any problems.”

[Frank Manno]

Thanks for the response John..

iPad & Apple TV can play the following video formats:

•H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

•MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

•Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

Based on the info above, would you be able to tell me which codec to use in Vegas? My source is 1920 x 1080p. Obviously I would need to render out to 1280 x 720p (according to above).

Above it has ‘H.264’ up to 720p. That seens ok right? Thing is, which of the codecs is ‘h.264’?? I can’t find h.264 in Vegas.

Also, ‘motion JPEG’ seems to support 1280 x 720 as well according to the specs above – Which codec does M-Jpeg in Vegas? Again I can’t find it 🙁

Thanks!

[Frank Manno]

Just what I was looking for – Thanks. 🙂

[Frank Manno]

Also forgot to ask –

Although their footage (and also my footage) is on a 1920×1080 timeline, should I encode for vimeo at 1920×1080 or is that unneccesary?

What size would you use for vimeo?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Hi David thanks for the response and doing some tests.

Below, are you saying to do this with which codec from within Vegas?

Sony AVC or MainConcept AVC/ACC? Which should I try? Actually aren’t they both MP4s?

-Frankie

>>On a similar kind of video, I’d set the average bitrate to 2000, >>the peak to 5500-6000, and run it 2-pass. Try without the de->>blocking filter, but if you see block artifacts, run it again with >>the de-blocking filter and compare.

[Frank Manno]

I like it – Thanks 🙂

>>You could also buy VASST ReelPaks. They have the same looks, work >>in 64-bit Vegas, are less expensive, and render faster as well. >>All of the looks use Vegas internal plug-ins so you can tweak the >>look however you want.

[Frank Manno]

What are you skeptical of? About that clip actually being in HD??

-Frank

>>As I said, I’m very skeptical. For one, it does appear to be in >>HD. Last I really looked into it (about a year ago), Vimeo was >>streaming their 720p HD at 2500Kb/s (YouTube at 2000Kb/s). If >>that’s still true, you have about 80MB there.. and they could well >>have upped the rate.

[Frank Manno]

>>Is that 66MB on upload, or 66MB in the final Vimeo format?

Well 66mb is what is now on vimeo. I basically downloaded the file and it’s 66mb on my drive. I don’t know how big the file was that they uploaded.

Interesting post though I will try Mainconcept AVC and try to learn about what Vimeo does with the file.. Thanks 🙂

-Frank

[Frank Manno]

Ok.. See the area where the arrow is? For some reason, having it slimmer as in Vegas 10 makes me ‘miss’ every time I click on it. No idea why. 🙁

Sorry for the dudgy graphics.

[Frank Manno]

Hi John,

Thanks for your quick response..

It’s not exactly what I mean. How did you past that image? I want to show you what I mean 🙂