[John Norton]

Maybe just render out 6 minutes, see what size it is then multiply by 10 to get an idea of flash memory size. Take more than one 6 minute sample if necessary. 20mb/s is a good starting point for good enough quality.

[John Norton]

Unless I’m missing something, with say C4K on the timeline, I’d select Pan/Crop, unlock aspect ratio, leave width at 4096, change height to 1757.94, then save this preset as My 21-9. Then use it on all C4K events.

The presets for 16-9 and Academy etc are already there. Perhaps you already know this?

[John Norton]

You could use the free ffmpeg to transcode to Prores overnight, setting your desired quality and size.

[John Norton]

“Something tells me though, that converting the TS file to an MP4 in such a manner would still have not worked with Vegas”

Rest assured Jack, the .ts files converted in this way to .mp4’s, i.e. mapped first then converted to mp4’s load and play perfectly in Vegas. So it’s an option you can use, if you ever need it in the future.

Glad it worked out.

[John Norton]

If you use ffmpeg to “map” the video and audio files to an mp4 I’d say there should be no change in quality. I use that method to extract the video and largest single audio file from a video file recorded on a Satellite recorder. I only require the video file, and best, usually largest, audio file. Vegas doesn’t support my .ts files.

Your needs may be different though, you may require all of the audio channels, the -map should work anyway.

[John Norton]

Of course, beware that you may possibly be appreciating the very common TV or dvd player upscaling instead?

[John Norton]

I saw a suggestion elswhere for doing Multicam, in case of errors. Basically it was to create a duplicate set of the for example 3 tracks, then select the first 3 and do Multicam. The second set are there for backup, delete when done and no problems.

[John Norton]

“Yes the fact that Vegas is using compoundplug.dll. show that it is working native, and not using QT.”

Thanks, glad to know that.

[John Norton]

Hi Aaron and Geoff, hope you don’t mind be jumping in as I am curious about the mention of .mov not being ideal for Vegas. This is mediainfo info on an old gh3 .mov clip, using highest gh3 bitrate. Its probably similar to Geoffs.

I checked/loaded using vegas pro 13 and V14, both report compoundplug.dll. I have Quicktime installed on win10 pc.

Can I take it Aaron that Quicktime is NOT used for this file? since its compoundplug.dll.

Complete name : F:\34.mov
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt 2011.07 (qt /pana)
File size : 132 MiB
Duration : 15 s 360 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 72.1 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2014-04-12 14:23:09
Tagged date : UTC 2022-07-19 14:23:11
PANA : DMC-GH3

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : N=1
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 15 s 360 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 70.4 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 71.7 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.359
Stream size : 129 MiB (98%)
Encoded date : UTC 2014-04-12 14:23:09
Tagged date : UTC 2022-07-19 14:23:11
Color range : Full
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : twos
Duration : 15 s 360 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 2.81 MiB (2%)
Encoded date : UTC 2014-04-12 14:23:09
Tagged date : UTC 2022-07-19 14:23:11

Other
ID : 3
Type : Time code
Format : QuickTime TC
Duration : 15 s 360 ms
Time code of first frame : 13:22:59:18
Time code, striped : Yes
Encoded date : UTC 2014-04-12 14:23:09
Tagged date : UTC 2022-07-19 14:23:11
Bit rate mode : CBR

[John Norton]

Hi Lazslo, just a small detail that might/not be relevant if you are getting new memory, and also depends on your system. If you get faster memory than say 1600, for example 1866, unless you set this in the uefi bios, usually under xmp, your system will still only be running at 1600.

As I said its a small detail only. I had been running my own system incorrectly until I came across this by chance. It would appear its quite common for a lot of users to have souped up systems, with faster memory, but not fully utilising it.