[Rick Hughes]

Your help is most appreciated.

[Rick Hughes]

The only issue I can see is that MPEG2 is not playable on several players … (as per previous post)

I have tried them on PC HiRes monitor and on widescreen HDTV … all 3 look the same (to my eyes)

N.B. I was able to use ‘mute’ and see difference in the 2 Quicktime variants.

[Rick Hughes]

Sorry to come back on this … those nice people at Photodex, just sent me a new license key that enabled the non-licensed codecs for free.
So as well as the options of MPEG2 & MJPEG/MOV
Also now have H264/MP4 which comes with description ” video with HIGH profile for use in external video editors”

The details for the same sample file are:
H264/MP4 118MB encode time 2m 30

Does this change the option .. or is MPEG2 still the best choice.
As you rightly mentioned bit rate I also include media info files for all 3 options.

9375_mjpegmovmediainfo.txt.zip

9376_mpeg2mediainfo.txt.zip

9373_h264mp4mediainfo.txt.zip

[Rick Hughes]

Wayne …. Interesting results.

Recreated the MPEG2 version with settings at 60000
First off thought it had failed … my player (5k) just showed first image only and although showed as running – image never changed.
Tried VLC … exactly the same ……… however Splash Lite & MPC-HC both played it fine

For my 30 sec sample

H.264/MOV file is 24MB render time 65 sec
MJPEG/MOV file is 367MB render time 50 sec
MPEG2 file is 231MB render time 58 sec

Interestingly (and tried it twice) the files size (windows properties) shows wrong duration for MPEG2 it shows it as 3 min .. but runs the 30sec same as others, and stops .. not as if there were 2.5min of blank space.

Confirmed MKV does not work with Movie Studio …strange no support for this, but removes it from consideration.

Is there any benefit to either format for Sony Movie Studio use ………… might as well choose the most suitable.
I have seen comments that Movie Studio uses Quicktime, so not sure if that means MJPEG/MOV is a better option ? On flip side also see stated that MJPEG is not a standard while MPEG-2 is a standard, and the resultant quality of MJPEG is still inferior compared to a similar sized MPEG.

A whole world on conundrums for me.

On your suggestion I tried loading both mov files onto Movie Studio timeline … but not sure what you mean by track mute .. assume you mean stop one from showing/playing (as in audio mute) … but unsure how to do that … if you tell me how I’ll try comparison.

[Rick Hughes]

I saw the 6 … but forgot to count the zeros …. well spotted

I’ll try again and compare MPEG to MJPEG/MOV

I’ll also try MKV in Movie Studio … always good to know ……

[Rick Hughes]

2 quick questions on this …

As I will be using Vegas Render for Blu-ray at 1920×1080 50i
In the ProShow settings (as per your screen grab) should I set interlacing to ‘none’ or should it be interlaced.

Lower down on that same sub-screen it has option ‘multplexing’ – as I will be creating Blu-ray from Movie studio … you showed it set to DVD is that still OK ?

[Rick Hughes]

Thanks
…in this case I need to put menus in place.

[Rick Hughes]

Problems …. That MPEG2 option does not work well.

I did a test ‘publish’ of same set of slides …
MKV … smooth motion, clear image
MOV … smooth motion, clear image
MPEG2 … seriously degraded image … highly pixelated, plus Blu-ray player throws up error on ‘unsupported audio format’ …. Even though no audio on any of the samples.
Tried it at frame rate 50 and 50 interlaced … both the same, remaining settings as per this pic.,

Maybe getting to MPEG2 via this custom route does not work correctly.
Short 4 slide sample of the MPEG2 attached:

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/mpeg-sample

for comparison here is H264/MOV:

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/h264-mov-sample

… not sure how the uploads will view … as even though I selected ‘no conversion, still got messages about re-encoding

I also tried MJPEG/mov …. It was 10x the file size of H.264/mov …. But no visible difference in video image quality …

I can’t attach MKV as forum does not support that format.

As MKV and MOV seem to work fine …… is there any reason why I should not use one of these, and is one preferable to the other ?

[Rick Hughes]

Thanks for the explanation.

[Rick Hughes]

Wayne … just spent a few minutes playing with it, and quickly recalled how to use it.
V7 is pretty polished .. and has extremely easy user interface.

A question for you … I’ll create multiple slideshows and then collate into Movie studio where I’ll add sound etc. to end up with single Blu-ray disc …hopefully with menu front end if I can get Architect to work for me (been clumsy with it in the past)

To save each pro-show ‘set’ what format do you (or should I) save to ? …

M-JPEG 1080p Quicktime MOV file mpeg-4 for use in 3rd party video editor

mkv using H.264/AVC 1080,50i HD Disc Authoring option

MPEG-4 using H.264 video for editing

** This last option would need a purchase of a plugin for it to be used