I do need a higher quality render than I am currently getting. Blacks/contrast is not as good as it could be.
Other than what is available in Vegas settings for QuickTime, I am not sure what to do. V8 came with QT 7. Is there something else I need to buy to get a higher quality QuickTime output?
Thank you.
Former user
wrote on 5/14/2008, 12:40 PM
Okay, in order to tell you how to improve, we need to know what you are doing now.
What codec are you using?
What resolution are you rendering?
What bitrate are you using?
What is the final destination of the video?
What codec are you using? QuickTime 7 that came with Vegas 8 (Sorenson 3)
What resolution are you rendering? 960 x 540
What bitrate are you using? 3mbps (all settings were set to best or 100%)
What is the final destination of the video? Flash for a web site. Client is doing the Flash work I deliver the QuickTime per client instruction.
Thank you.
Former user
wrote on 5/14/2008, 1:07 PM
Sorenson is not the best quality codec to use. It is very universal, most Macs or QT installs can play it, but it is equivalent to an MPEG1 (my opinion)
The h264 codec is superior, but I don't know if Vegas can access it. I use QT Pro to encode to QT. It costs about $29 US and allows you to encode to any QT codec. I usually create a suitable AVI file out of Vegas and import that into QT to encode.
I think new versions of Flash can embed a QT H264 codec directly.
This is a volume project, there are many short videos. Quality is important, so is time. Is there a plug in codec that will work seamlessly with Vegas (I.E. only one render to QT?)
Does the flash person have a preference since they are the next step?
I would suggest you provide a few files with different codecs that come out to similar size and see how their flash encoder handles them. In the past when I've delivered for flash, I either did a quicktime (dv codec) or mpg2 file. They came out pretty nice.
Flash will also play native h.264 stuff, although I haven't looked into adoption rates enough to know how many people are using flash player 9 that does that. Within the next year most computer users should have it.
I have a ton of QT codec choice in Vegas 8b but that may be because I have QT Pro installed. If you google Quick Time Lossless codec you will find a lot of information.
Also, technically, the MainConcept AVC encoder will output the newer version of QT, the mp4 container. MP4 is based on QT and will work fine on Mac, in Flash and whatever else you can imagine.