H.264 1440x1080 in Vegas?

marts wrote on 6/7/2007, 11:56 AM
I have tried to render the .MP4 files (using Mainconcept codec in Vegas 7) to be playable on Playstation 3, but the in settings it is not possible to use 1080 as a vertical resolution - it will revert to 1088. I know that internally the H.264 codec deals with pixel counts which must be in multiplies of 16, but externally it should not matter. For example the AVCHD camcorders output files which are identified as 1440x1080. So my question is - is there a way to render such H.264 files directly in Vegas7?

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p@mast3rs wrote on 6/7/2007, 12:09 PM
PS3 will play the file back I believe. 1088 is what you get.
marts wrote on 6/7/2007, 1:49 PM
unfortunately not, PS3 will tag it as unsupported file and refuses to play it. PS3 plays anything if the vertical pixel count is less or equal to 1080. I tried 1072 - PS3 played this one, but there were glitches in picture (when I played the file on PC these glitches were visible as well) and it is waste of computing power when Vegas must rescale the video during rendering.
ForumAdmin wrote on 6/7/2007, 2:37 PM
For PS3 playback, try MPEG-2 using one of the HDV 1080 templates (unmodified).

Those .m2t files will play back in the PS3 just fine- from a BluRay datadisc, from a data DVD disc, from a Memory stick, no special folder or anything needed, just a file on the disc.

HDV 1080 files are also 1440 x1080 (if you did not know).
marts wrote on 6/8/2007, 11:07 AM
I know that I can use directly the .m2t files, however I do not have the BluRay writer yet and I wanted to put project longer than 25 minutes on a DVD, so I have to compress it more.
LSHorwitz wrote on 6/8/2007, 2:56 PM
Or....you can write a dual layer disk and get about 50 minutes rather than 25 minutes...
4eyes wrote on 6/8/2007, 3:38 PM
You can render to a 1440x1080i.m2t @25000kbs CBR/Mpeg audio@384kbs, UFF file.
Use an external USB formatted as FAT32 even or a dual-layered DVD.
Each minute of HDV=200,000kBytes, 4Gig=20Minutes so dual layered dvd will work.
You can also copy the video to the PS3's local internal harddisk.
The latest firmware update for the PS3 also has some nice new features.