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nickle wrote on 11/18/2004, 7:28 PM
Why not upgrade to Vegas 5 for $199. ?

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/shopping/category.asp?id=10&PRCat=30
jaegersing wrote on 11/18/2004, 7:43 PM
Try TMPEGEnc - http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tp.html.

The price is $37, the quality is good and it is not fast, therefore I would say it is a good fit for your considerations! :)

Richard Hunter
mhbstevens wrote on 11/18/2004, 8:04 PM
Isn't MainConcept an MPEG encoder? Don't we all have this ?
musicvid10 wrote on 11/18/2004, 8:28 PM
My version of Vegas has Ligos, which really sucks for quality.
johnmeyer wrote on 11/18/2004, 9:34 PM
This was just covered, extensively, less than three weeks ago. See this thread:

Another panel: Best MPEG encoder

Also, at about the same time there is this thread, which also covers much of the same territory:

mpeg-2 encoding, some thoughts
Chienworks wrote on 11/19/2004, 3:37 AM
If your version of Vegas has Ligos then it must be version 2. You really should consider the upgrade to 5, for hundreds of reasons besides the new MPEG encoder.
farss wrote on 11/19/2004, 3:52 AM
I'd also add my vote to that suggestion. Not only that but I assume your intention is to produce a DVD?
Then apart from an encoder you'll need some form of authoring tool and for the money DVDA is pretty hard to beat.
Bob.
BJ_M wrote on 11/19/2004, 10:38 AM
Chienworks is totally right .. upgrade first, you will prob. find you don't need another encoder then anyway ..

vitalforces wrote on 11/19/2004, 3:02 PM
Canopus' ProCoder Express is $60 and will even do 2-pass VBR for an MPEG-2.