[Rico Barone]

Hello Brian,

I launched my Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 for you and selected a clip to render.

If I choose the Mainconcept AVC codec, I am only permitted to export in 320×240 or 640×480 (both options being listed as Apple ipod). I am *not* able to select the ‘Custom…’ button (it is disabled) in order to modify the settings.

With the Sony AVC codec, the ‘Custom…’ button is enabled which allows you to configure the render using the different audio and video types including 1440×1080 and 1920×1080.

If you intend on using the Mainconcept codec then I would say the answer to your question is ‘you have to purchase the Vegas Pro version’.

I hope this information helps.

Rico.

[Rico Barone]

Hello Brian,

First, it’s important you do not confuse the software titles. You wrote “when you bought the vegas pro 9 expansion pack”. ‘Vegas Pro’ is an entirely different package and I don’t even think Version 9 is released yet. I think only 8 is out there right now.

What I think you are talking about is ‘Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9’, and this is the version that I purchased.

You also wrote “I have vegas studio 8.0 and I need to be able to do HD video, which 8 cannot”, which is not a true statement. Vegas Movie studio 8 *can* do ‘HD’ video (which I believe you mean HDV or ‘High Definition Video’). It just does not have the ability to encode (or export) in h.264. I also believe version 9 has added more support for camcorders which record in AVCHD format.

Now, the only thing I have used h.264 for is to encode movies for posting online to a website called Vimeo. Vegas Movie Studio does not make it readily apparent to export in h.264, and as a result, I followed the instructions kindly provided by Eugenia Loli which can be found on this page:

https://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/11/09/exporting-with-vegas-for-vimeo-hd/

and specifically, these are the instructions for using the Sony AVC codec (which results in the h.264 mp4 file):

https://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/images/sonyavc.png

Hope this helps.

Rico.

[Rico Barone]

Well,

I ended up purchasing the Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack upgrade from Sony Creative. I think it was a great price and I’m happy that I can export in H.264. The Cinescore software is pretty cool too.

I think this will hold me over for a while.

Cheers,

Rico.

[Rico Barone]

Hi Steve and Tony,

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. I was tempted to purchase Movie Studio 9 Pro Pack for now but have read a few other posters are having problems with memory.

Steve, I hate to purchase Pro 8 and then 2 months from now 9 may be released and I have to shell out more $$$. I really don’t need 8 at this precise moment but am willing to wait a couple of months. If 9 won’t be released for another 6 months, then it may be 8 Pro.

Rico.