QuickTime H.264?
 

Is it possible to use with Vegas? Can't get it working.

Don't think so. I saw an article at the VASST site which discussed frameserving the Vegas timeline into Nero for H264 rendering. Might do a search there and the Sony Forum (which is where I recall picking up the reference). Darryl

AVI splitter?
 

Can anybody recommend a method or a program to split full 60-minute captures (which were captured as .AVI's) into multiple (or at least two) smaller files without recompressing or generational loss?

Thanks

As long as they were DV-AVIs, Vegas should be able to do it for you.
Put it on the time line and drop markers at the appropriate points. Double-click in an empty are to highlight a section and select "render loop region only".

VirtualDub will also do this for you. Load the file in, delete the areas you don't want, select "video - direct stream copy" and then "file - save as avi".

Mike

If you render a DV-AVI file in Vegas to another DV-AVI file and you have made NO changes, it will be a straight file copy so there will be NO generational loss.

Now that's strange. I was able to export QT H.264 video from Premiere Pro without a problem after installing the QuickTime 7 preview (the free player, not the Pro version) on my computer. I wonder why it doesn't work in Vegas?

Very interesting, and good to know. At least I can take my HD projects stored in cineform format and make H.264 from Adobe Premier without having to buy some $500 encoder.

Vegas is very picky about codecs. It's really getting to be problematic for me.

Awesome, you guys are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you.

scenalyzer will do it too

Vegas 6.0b Network Rendering
 

I have just started to use Vegas 6.0 ( also have Premiere Pro 1.5.1 and Edius Pro3) I have Aspect HD Demo 3.3 loaded at the moment too. Main reason for Vegas is that it appears to have the best user interface for cropping SD video from HDV. Since this process will result in rendering the whole video I decided to set up network rendering with one of my other PC's. Main PC is AMD 64 X2 4200+ second PC is an AMD XP2500. I have set up both as far as I can tell!!! While watching the status on the second PC, it will render for a few seconds and then fails reporting no project file in the log ( the file is there however when I checked on the host PC). Both PC's show "ready" in status before starting rendering. Network is a Gigabit ethernet. What am I missing?

Ron Evans

updating vegas
 

I'll be getting Vegas 6 in about a few days from now. I currently have Vegas 4 with some work in progress. Would I be able to work with my projects in the new Vegas 6? Can 6 be insalled without uninstalling 4?

Thanks

Sure. Vegas 6 installs in its own folder and doesn't overwrite Vegas 4. I have Vegas 4, 5 and 6 installed.

yes, you can work in V6 with prevorious Vegas project

*if you save project in V6 - from this moment older versions of the program not anderstand this *.veg (V6 anderstand, V4/5 not)

are you sure that it's really the qt h.264 codec? i'm trying to figure out how that could have happened... did you have nero installed already? maybe it's the nero h.264 codec??

That's not easily possible in Vegas. However you can give it a go through the
following method (make sure you try this on a COPY of the file!!!!!).

Go to www.doom9.org
Go to downloads, AVI editing tools, click on show all AVI editing tools
Download Avifrate1.10.

Extract the program from the zip, launch it and open your (copy) AVI file. It
should display the current framerate (25.0). Change it to 24.0 and save the
file.

Now start Vegas and select the NTSC DV 24p template. Change the 23.976
fps (IVTC film) to 24.000 fps (film). Now load the file into Vegas.

You will see once you load the file that the audio part is not as long as the
video part. Un-group the audio track and ctrl + drag it to the end of the video
(in Vegas' default settings it should snap to match exactly). The audio should
now be back in sync with the video.

I didn't have time to confirm this flow, but if memory serves me correctly it
should work this way.

Good luck!