Sony Vegas Pro and Windows Setup
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Introduction
Sony Vegas is a professional video editing software package for non-linear editing systems (NLE) which runs on Microsoft Windows XP (XP x64 not supported) , Vista and 7.
Software required
This is the list of software and codecs used in this guide, it may be possible to use other versions or similar products.
HuffYUV 2.1.1 (for detailed instructions on installing on Windows 7 64bit systems, see below)
Workflow
Capture the video and audio with Fraps using the following settings.
(if necessary you can uncheck the "Force Lossless RGB capture" which will have a negligible effect on picture quality while reducing filesizes significantly and may also speed up the capture rate).
Set up Sony Vegas with the following video and audio properties.
To render out the edited video, use the following render settings.
This provides a video using the lossless codec HuffYUV ready for further encoding in the required format. I recommend using the avi container with the DivX codec for the final video to be published for best compatibilty with Windows systems.
For example, if the video is to be published on an HD online video sharing site like YouTube or Vimeo then I would recommend encoding with:
DivX (6,000kbps minimum, dual pass)
Lame MP3 (44,100Hz, 256kbps, Stereo)
Treet.tv requires an mp4 container so we will go straight to the procedure of converting the HuffYUV/avi to H.264/mp4. We will be using QuickTime Pro to encode the mp4 file, but as QuickTime does not recognise the HuffYUV codec we first must use VirtualDub to encode as uncompressed.
Open the HuffyUV video with VirtualDub for encoding the video for publishing.
Select Audio then Full Processing, select Audio again then Compression. Click on <No compression (PCM)> and check that the details under Format information are recognised.
Select Video then Compression and click on (Uncompressed RGB/YCbCr).
Save the file with a new name, then once it has finished encoding, open the file with QuickTime Pro. Select File then Export as follows.
Click Options then use the following Audio and Video settings.
Installing HuffYUV in Windows 7 64bit systems
The following steps are necessary to install the HuffYUV codec under Windows 7 64 bit systems.
1. Unzip the files it to your C:\ drive.
2. Open up a command prompt (DOS box), while logged in with a user account that has administrative privileges (go to the Start menu, and in the command box type in cmd and then press ctrl+shift and then press enter while still holding ctrl+shift. If you've done it correctly, then the little black DOS box will say "Administrator: Command Prompt" in the on-screen text.
3. Assuming your copy of Windows was installed with the standard method (C:\Windows), navigate to the SysWOW64 folder (in the little black DOS box, type cd c:\windows\syswow64 and then press enter).
4. Again, in the DOS box, type rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 0 c:\huffyuv.inf and press enter. Pay close attention to the spacing. And that's a "zero" in the last half of the command, not the letter "O". There's no space around that comma.
