[Ian Smith]

While I’d agree that Vista has its problems I really don’t see it as being the culprit here.

Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 running under Vista happily renders out video in many different formats (albeit at too large a size for me to upload to Vimeo) and the rendered output from it can be loaded and previewed in Sorenson Squeeze 5 with no problems. It’s only when Sorenson steps into the frame and applies its compression that things start falling apart.

I’ve used Expression Encoder very little but couldn’t help noticing that the main Encoder guru (gave the best talks at MIX08 on Encoder) seems to be Ben Waggoner – who wrote the only book I’ve seen available on Sorenson Squeeze, so I’m guessing he took the best of what he knew about Squeeze to make sure that Encoder could do similar stuff.

I’ve raised an issue with Sorenson Support and will update this thread if we get anywhere with this particular “vanishing video” issue.

Cheers,
Ian

[Ian Smith]

Thanks for the response Daniel.

Indeed I have several possible settings “Sorenson MPeg 4 Pro”, “Sorenson H.264”, “Apple H.264” and “MainConcept H.264”.

Sorenson’s tutorial strongly advised using the MainConcept H.264 as it was more efficient giving smaller sizes and better video.

I will try the “Sorenson H.264” setting next, but don’t have high hopes.

I’m very disappointed with this program given its price. The initial install wouldn’t allow the “Squeeze It” button to be pressed when following the sample in the user guide and I had to chase Sorenson support.

Sorenson’s Support instructions for uninstalling the program forgot basic stuff like deactivating the software before un-installing it (luckily I was paying attention), the fact that Vista has different options than XP, and gave instructions to remove registry entries and folder contents that just weren’t there. It hasn’t inspired any confidence.

Beginning to wish I’d just paid for an upgrade to Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 instead 🙁