All,
A bit of history - I have produced a new product presentation in Vegas 5.0 to be shown at a resolution of 800x600pixels that will be posted to our corporate website. We intend to use Windows Media Video (and Audio) to deliver this clip streaming over thr web.
My recent experiments with the internal WMV9 encoder within Vegas 5 has turned out questionable results (video portions have been blocky, pixelated and audio has been gapping badly at times on various laptops/desktops) with a variety of renders of the project.
The presentation consists of a mix of animations, slides with text, Camtasia Studio screen capture, voiceover and music. We are trying to render this in the best possible combinations of WMV parameters to arrive a file that looks and sounds good but does not gap horribly or look washed out and blocky if a sale reps takes this piece on the road to a presentation from laptop etc.
Several contacts have remarked that I may have better results rendering the highest quality Windows AVI from Vegas and then use the actual standalone Microsoft Windows Media Encoder kit to render out the WMV file for the web.
I have downloaded the standalone encoder and it has a ton of features that the Vegas encoder does not so I want to try this out to compare results.
But - how the heck do I get a high quailty Windows AVI out of Vegas at my project dimensions of 800x600? If I choose the NTSC templates, of course I get a 720 by 480 etc...several other choices leave me with no ability to render the video portion at a custom size of 800x600 (option greyed out).
Is Uncompressed my only option?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
VP
A bit of history - I have produced a new product presentation in Vegas 5.0 to be shown at a resolution of 800x600pixels that will be posted to our corporate website. We intend to use Windows Media Video (and Audio) to deliver this clip streaming over thr web.
My recent experiments with the internal WMV9 encoder within Vegas 5 has turned out questionable results (video portions have been blocky, pixelated and audio has been gapping badly at times on various laptops/desktops) with a variety of renders of the project.
The presentation consists of a mix of animations, slides with text, Camtasia Studio screen capture, voiceover and music. We are trying to render this in the best possible combinations of WMV parameters to arrive a file that looks and sounds good but does not gap horribly or look washed out and blocky if a sale reps takes this piece on the road to a presentation from laptop etc.
Several contacts have remarked that I may have better results rendering the highest quality Windows AVI from Vegas and then use the actual standalone Microsoft Windows Media Encoder kit to render out the WMV file for the web.
I have downloaded the standalone encoder and it has a ton of features that the Vegas encoder does not so I want to try this out to compare results.
But - how the heck do I get a high quailty Windows AVI out of Vegas at my project dimensions of 800x600? If I choose the NTSC templates, of course I get a 720 by 480 etc...several other choices leave me with no ability to render the video portion at a custom size of 800x600 (option greyed out).
Is Uncompressed my only option?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
VP