Hey folks
i have been away a while
I still use 11 but own 12. does 13 have any new/different render setting that change the old workflow of:
Vegas>Handbreak> youtube
or is 13 the same in that regard?
Vegas Pro 13 allows 4K renders. Even though I don't have a 4K camera (yet), I render my stills to play on my 4K TV. I've done it through Vegas to Handbrake.
I uploaded one [I]just because[/I].
I don't think anything else has changed in terms of encoders within Vegas. I use Handbrake for uploading, but I most often use Mainconcept AVC/MVC for my videos that I stream locally. My wired network has no problem with 40 mbps and so far I can afford the disk space. The TVs and all the Blu-ray players play Mainconcept AVC and AC3 in an .m2ts wrapper fine at my house.
script would be great. why on 2-5 I am downloading several other things though??...I thought the script makes it easier. looks like this works only if you frame serve?
It does, but it does take some time to set up. Just make sure that you download the correct version of the frameserver for your version of Vegas Pro. Having Debugmode Frameserver installed also enables you to use other encoders such as TMPGEnc's Mastering Works or Procoder. It's really a great tool.
So doing frameserve actually makes it better qual or just different method? I have known about it but i got by rendering Avid > Handbrake which did OK.
So doing frameserve actually makes it better qual or just different method?
No better quality. It just avoids having to render a lossless intermediate file first and then open that file in your encoder such as Handbrake. It saves a lot of time and space.
If you can tolerate long upload times to YouTube (or you have a very fast connection), there's no benefit to frame serving. Just render to XAVC S. Actually frame serving will introduce precision errors because of quantization to 8 bits in RGB. Native rendering in a 32-bit project will be higher quality.
If you have a slow connection and you want a lower bit rate file to upload, I contend that recompressing from XAVC S with ffmpeg or handbrake or whatever is a better option than frame serving. At least ffmpeg preserves the full precision of Vegas's output.
Lots of folks can't get the script working in 13, although it seems some have had success. I haven't, I'm going back to 12 (and hope it works in that version again as it did in the past!)