windows Sony vegas

[LainTime/Bazingaa^_-]

Hi everyone. Don't know if this is the right place for this topic but i need some help with sony vegas.

Right now i'm making an montage and i'm using xfire as recorder. The problem is when i try to render the movie i have made. The first problem is that the file on 1 minute and 29 seconds is 9.5 GB big. And the second problem is when im trying to play the file in VLC and there is no picture or sound. This is just a guess but it maybe have something to do with that the Xfire file is compressed to xfcodec. And if that is the case, how do i "uncompress" the movie file?

 

Thankful for any help!

 

//LainTime

[hobbit]

I've never used xfire to record a demo since the files get too large to be useful. Just use the built in screen capture (cl_avidemo is available in cod4 i think). Then you run those screenshots through Virtualdub, render that as an avi, and import that into vegas. The file will still be pretty big depending on which codec you choose to use. It is normal to have big files when making montages.

 

If VLC had problems with xfcodec it would probably give you an error message about it, so i'm not sure that is the reason for your second problem. I would also suggest rendering audio and video separately and then rerendering them in meGui. This will lower their filesizes, and if using a good megui config it can boost your graphics. Then mux the video and audio together using the mp4 muxer in meGui.

[rolf]

How do you exactly use it? Xfire records to file, which you then read in with Vegas. And then Vegas displays no image. Or does it, and converting with Vegas the outputfile can not be played with VLC? Of can you let Vegas get the input from Xfire directly? And then VLC cannot play the outputfile of Vegas?

 

What does work, what doesn't? I have no experience with it directly, but if VLC doesn't play it it is normally the file?

[LainTime/Bazingaa^_-]

I've never used xfire to record a demo since the files get too large to be useful. Just use the built in screen capture (cl_avidemo is available in cod4 i think). Then you run those screenshots through Virtualdub, render that as an avi, and import that into vegas. The file will still be pretty big depending on which codec you choose to use. It is normal to have big files when making montages.

 

If VLC had problems with xfcodec it would probably give you an error message about it, so i'm not sure that is the reason for your second problem. I would also suggest rendering audio and video separately and then rerendering them in meGui. This will lower their filesizes, and if using a good megui config it can boost your graphics. Then mux the video and audio together using the mp4 muxer in meGui.

okay thanks. But i have used the xfire demos in windows movie maker without problem.

Yeah VLC should give me an error message but it don't... And i really don't wanna start all over with the montage.. will take to much time..

 

How do you exactly use it? Xfire records to file, which you then read in with Vegas. And then Vegas displays no image. Or does it, and converting with Vegas the outputfile can not be played with VLC? Of can you let Vegas get the input from Xfire directly? And then VLC cannot play the outputfile of Vegas?

 

What does work, what doesn't? I have no experience with it directly, but if VLC doesn't play it it is normally the file?

I put the xfire movie file in vegas and it works just fine. But when i render the movie i have made in vegas and the open it in VLC, its just a black screen without sound.

[rolf]

Can you get with MediaInfo the codec information of the file? And perhaps even the codec through google with "VLC" as additional text to see if the codec is actually supported (or, which player supports that codec at least). Because Vegas gives you an output VLC can't handle, just have to figure out which output it then actually is

[LainTime/Bazingaa^_-]

Thanks for the tip Rolf I will check it when I get my full Internet speed back

[LainTime/Bazingaa^_-]

Think I have found a topic on xfire on how to make it work.

Here is the solution according to him "problem solved. for other users thats gonna have the same problem here's the solution:

import the video, edit it and click on file->render as. then, in template menu, choose 512kbps video, then click on Custom. go on video menu and select Quality vbr in the mode section. feel free do adjust quality and video image size on whatever you want."

Gonna try it in about 20 minutes and I really hope it will work!