Vegas 6.0 Quicktime Compression

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JoshInvert

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Hey all; I know that I'm new here, but I think that I've got quite a legit question/topic for discussion. I'm guessing that many DVXUser members use Vegas 6.0 by looking at the large discussion group for the software, so I figured that someone may be able to help out us less-Quicktime savvy Vegas users.

I've seen some really nice looking 4:3 and 16:9 aspect Quicktime (specifically .MP4) web video coming from Final Cut Pro, and I'm contemplating a way that I could compress my DVX's footage into the same compression standards for web using the Vegas 6.0 output dialog.

I would most appriciate this; thank you very much in advance for any help!

- Josh
 
Well, first, I'd steer you away from Quicktime and toward WMV. I find it to be a superior format in every respect.

But what "compression standards" are you trying to achieve?
 
To give a sort of superior example of the kind of compression I'm looking to encode in or near, the Apple Quicktime Trailers (on highest quality setting) would be the closest.

I've seen a few film examples on DVXUser that seem to come close, if not exactly, the same quality as these trailers. I'm just trying to figure out the "secret" behind it, really!
 
For one thing, those Quicktime trailers are hardware-compressed. You won't be able to do what they do in Vegas or any other software-only app.

Pound for pound, WMV will give you the highest quality-to-filesize ratio, and Vegas does it well.

I think Quicktime is a throwback which was years ago surpassed. It's big, clunky, and slow.
 
Thank you very much for the info! Perhaps I'll just look into compressing widescreen WMV, then. DivX also seems like a sufficient Windows-friendly high quality video compression method for what I'm looking to do.

Thanks again!
 
I'm personally not a fan of DivX. To get the best compression for Quicktime, if you must compress to Quicktime, I'd suggest purchasing their newest Quicktime 7 Pro. It'll give you the h.264 video codec you need for it to look the best, without a massive file size.

Also, make sure you compress with your audio set to IMA 4:1, or you'll have a tin like sound compressing with the default.

Lastly, I personally can't get my h.264 codec to work with compressing through Vegas ... so I have to take an uncompressed AVI file THEN compress that w/QT7, after importing it into the program. An extra step, but the only way I can get fairly good results w/QT.

Otherwise, like David's said, WMV rocks.
 
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