So I have been doing certain movie with a Vegas Pro 8.0 and now I want to make it the best format possible (mp4?). The movie contains pictures, music and other voice, no actual video more like a clipshow. You can render movie as .mp4 but it allows you to make it for ipod 340xXXX or 640xXXX only. So how do I render it raw so I can re-render it on other program to a better .mp4 format. Oh and the ipod quality is horrid its like the pic keeps changing from picmip 2 to 0 every 2 secs.

A lossless codec (huffyuv or something, IIRC) is needed so you can render it again later.

 

Will take up a huge part of your HDD though.

So the next step would be making uncompressed file of it and then I need program that can make the mp4? Any suggestions on that part simpler the better since im new to this.

Try finding a raw format there in the rendering options. Google all formats if necessary. AVI might be able to contain raw format. A minute of uncompressed 1024x768 video of 32-bit depth will take: 1024*768*4*25*60 bytes, which is 4.5GB. Split into several parts if necessary.

FFMPEG is a great tool to encode, but VLC works too. It has nice graphical UI, just download it and select Media -> Transcode. You have all the necessary options there. Remember to use H264 for the video encodec format.

Yes I found the uncompressed option from .avi . The movie is 45min long and resolution is 720x486x128 and my HDD is 120G if empty :<. I will check how much that would take.

Use HUFFYUV for lossless encoding.

Use x264 for compression.

Google for a guide on how to configure it.

Ok guys I made a smaller part of the video (12sec) its was little over 200mb and after that I packed it to h264 .mp4. The quality was.. well lets play picmip 2 ís beatiful in compare. File size was 1.6mb so its alright but what went wrong with the quality ? Audio was horrible aswell.

I will make the raw version on the whole movie tonight.

edit: I used VLC since I have no idea how the FFMPEG works.

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Something went seriously wrong any ideas what could be the cause?

Fana wrote:

Use HUFFYUV for lossless encoding.

Use x264 for compression.

Google for a guide on how to configure it.