Vegas Sony AVC vs MainConcept m2v encoders

3dbproductions wrote on 1/20/2014, 2:08 PM

Hello,

Anybody out there have a strong preference for Vegas Pro encoders for BD video steams? In Vegas 11 Pro, there is a MainConcept m2v encoder as well as a Sony AVC encoder.

My source is from a Sony NXCAM and generates 24Mbps MTS files that I pull directly into Sony Vegas. I am currently shooting my content at 720 60p.

I believe that DVDA 6.0 will support either the mpeg2 (m2v) or AVC format video stream files.

Thanks!

Comments

videoITguy wrote on 1/20/2014, 2:23 PM

If you are encoding for standard (no experience with 3d) Blu-ray encoding you are much better off with sticking to the high-data rate and quality afforded by Mpeg2 encoding - m2v.
You can achieve similar quality with AVC at lower data rates which translates into accomodating longer runtimes on your final disc video. However, the Sony AVC version is not of the best quality, and lots of folks have developed tweaks for it to manage it. This becomes a problematic workflow.
This comes up in the forum about every two weeks - search for topics on workflow.
Forum membership is diverse and has differing opinions about the merits- however my case argument stated above still holds regardless.

musicvid10 wrote on 1/20/2014, 3:35 PM

HDV source, use MPEG-2.
AVCHD source, use AVC.
Minimimzes transcoding artifacts, even though it will not smart render.