Re: Pro 9: Rendering failures using MainConcept AVC/mp4?

Thanks for the suggestion, but to get one (non-essential) codec set to (possibly) work, I really can't justify the amount of lost time of a fresh OS install. If I were going to reinstall the OS I'd probably go for Windows 7 in any case, and frankly, I don't like wasting my time living on the bleeding edge any more. ;)

Also, please confirm to me that you have rendered with the Main Concept AVC presets (at least the built-in preset templates?) Just about everything in the rest of Vegas 9.0 is working, and working much better than Pro 8.0c ever worked. Since the MainConcept codecs DID work (and probably still work) in the Pro 8.0c installation I've left available, an OS reinstall seems a bit drastic and unnecessary at this point. If something really big was not working I'd certainly have to consider it, though. But since there's almost no way to make money with streaming video, (and the ways that do exist have nothing to do with rendering quality) the difference between the Sony AVC/AAC set and MainConcept is pretty non-essential for my needs, at least.

The machine is a little over one year old, and I intentionally have installed very little other software on it that is not directly usable for rendering. If I continue to research and find that there are many people using the MainConcept codecs without a hitch, I may resort to a reinstall of Vegas but reinstalling the OS is a last resort for me. Especially reinstalling Vista. I'm frankly looking forward to a day when it would be realistic to do my work in linux, but I suspect Win7 is probably in my future before that fantasy comes true.

Also, I wouldn't even try to run Vegas Pro 8.0 or 9.0 on a laptop myself. Their video drivers are never that stable and they run way too hot for my taste usually with very inadequate ventilation and cooling though I suppose you might put one on one of those cooling devices and see if you could keep it stable, for me, the adventure would be too much... I don't like losing any more work than I have to, given other options.