[Sam Caino]

Change “Mode” to “Negative” in your Event Pan/Crop settings under Path.

[Sam Caino]

I appreciate you checking into it, John. We also just found that rendering a .mp4 iPod 640×480 video takes significantly longer in e than it does in b. That’s not acceptable for us, we are rolling back to b and plan on staying there for the time being.

[Sam Caino]

Very strange, I uninstalled and reinstalled 9e, deleted the old template and recreated it from scratch, same error.

[Sam Caino]

Hi John,

Yes, I am using network rendering and the content of the logs is a list of all render jobs. Looks like it’s a network rendering log.

Thanks for the input, as always.

[Sam Caino]

You can try this script. I’ve never used it, but it’s in my script pile (copy to a text document and change the file extension to .js) I think you need to select all your tracks first, then run the script. Let me know if it works…

/**
* Program:
* Description: This script will Delete Empty Space Between Events In Selected Tracks
* Author: Philip
*
* Date: August 31, 2003
**/

import Sony.Vegas;
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Microsoft.Win32;

//time intervals for split events.

try
{

// step through all selected video events:
var FirstTrack : Track = Vegas.Project.Tracks.Item(0);

// step through all selected video events:
for (var track in Vegas.Project.Tracks) {
if( !track.Selected) continue;
var tracktime = new Timecode(0);
for (var evnt in track.Events) {
evnt.AdjustStartLength(tracktime,evnt.Length,true);
tracktime = tracktime + evnt.Length;
}
}
}

catch (errorMsg)
{
MessageBox.Show(errorMsg, “Error”, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
}

[Sam Caino]

Knowing that it is going to be edited, I would render out a 1min test clip of the .mov format using DV/DVCPro – NTSC Video format, slide the quality bar up pretty high. Check the file size and multiply it by 8 to see if it will meet your size requirements.

[Sam Caino]

For MainConcept .mp4’s I post to iTunes, I use a Variable Bit Rate of 1,500,000 – 1,350,000 bps. That makes a nice looking video and correlates with iPod specs. However, you could go twice as high as that and still maintain your file size limit. Probably even higher.

The way I approach questions like this is to render out a 1min test vid trying out different specs until I get the results I like.

[Sam Caino]

Thanks but I was hoping for a keyboard shortcut.

[Sam Caino]

Wait, what is it?? That would be very useful to me.

[Sam Caino]

Go in and customize your .mov settings and change the Video format to Sorenson Video 3. A 720×480 video at high quality will be under 1gig with that format. You can also use the MainConceptAVC/AAC .mp4 format (ipod template) and you’d probably want to up the bit rate. I’m not sure if it comes with Vegas 8, but if you have the Sony AVC .mp4 format, that would be your best bet for both quality and file size.

.mp4 is also considered “quicktime”