[Jens Theisen]

Well, a good start would be to display the project resolution/fps in the respective render configuration dialogs where the render resolution/fps is configured – so that I don’t have to hunt down what those are from the original video material (I can’t access the project settings while in those dialogs which makes things a little more annoying there.)

Even better would a button there to “take resolution and fps from project settings”.

Yet even better, but a lot more involved, would be to have templates that don’t specify a bitrate, but a quality level (as ffmpeg does at least for h264 encodings) as that could remain constant accross resolutions. With this, you could even offer a “resolution/fps-independent template” to just select on rendering and go without editing anything.

So there you have it, my suggestion for making this a bit better. 🙂

[Jens Theisen]

I’m usually asking myself this question when I made a screencast: They are normally in some arbitrary resolution covering only a smaller portion of the screen that made sense for that specific screencast. They can also be in 15, 30 and 60 fps.

It’s not a *huge* deal, but it would be really nice if Vegas would be more convenient here.

[Jens Theisen]

Thanks a bunch for the info!

[Jens Theisen]

Have you found a solution to your problem?

I also want to create h264 smooth streaming content (as I want to stream it under Silverlight), but

– Azure Media Services costs money (I want to encode a lot of stuff in an automated service)
– Expression Encoder Pro can’t be bought with h264 support any longer

[Jens Theisen]

> Yea, drop the recording onto the timeline in Camtasia Studio and […]

Thanks, that’s good to know.

You’ve been most helpful!

[Jens Theisen]

Additional note:

When looking at a list of codecs installed on my windows system this way:

https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/codecs-frequently-asked-questions#codecs-frequently-asked-questions=windows-7

The Expression Encoder Screen Capture Codec is listed as a “DMO” (DirectX Media Object) and the (now) working Camtasia Codec is listed as “ICM”.

Maybe Sony Vegas doesn’t support DMOs?

[Jens Theisen]

Many thanks for the Camtasia tip. You’re right, it works fine in the avi container.

Since you’re a Camtasia-pro: Do you happen to know if there’s a way to create the avi from a trec file in case you already happen to have recorded those?

[Jens Theisen]

You’re right, although that I can’t change the container within the template editor hasn’t been the case in my version 11 movie studio.

I wonder why they changed that. And why they changed that and left the tab in.

Anyway, thanks for pointing this out.