Sony Vegas Cannot Render to .flv?
by Ryan Jones
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Oct 14, 2009 at 4:04:00 am
I am wondering if there is anyway to render a video to .flv from sony vegas. I feel like I must be missing something here.
Let me get this straight: Sony vegas cannot render a video to the most popular format for internet viewing?...
No, I do not want mp4 h624. Flv is more widespread and takes up less space and plays for the viewer instantly with no slow loading. Adobe premiere can do this; do they just own the rights to it so no other video software can do that?
I realize that I can convert the video afterwords to flv, but that is a whole other step and will take another couple of hours to render, not to mention lose a little quality due to another conversion. What a waste of time.
Re: Sony Vegas Cannot Render to .flv? by Dave Haynie on Oct 15, 2009 at 6:12:53 pm
Yes, that's true... Vegas doesn't render to flash video. Most NLEs don't, largely because flash video has been such a proprietary format. Adobe has it, but only after buying Macromedia (the originators of flash). You can get it as a Quicktime plug-in directly from On2 (the .FLV CODEC is based on On2's compression technology).
I rather expect there's some heinous licensing issues involved, or more companies would support it. After all, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 adds cost, and I agree, flash is no less popular these days (though converters from "something else" really are a dime a dozen).
As for quality... it's a non-issue, really. Export to any reasonable format, and you're adding so much crazy compression to deliver an online video, you're not going to make things measurably worse going though an intermediate CODEC. If quality was that big of a concern, you'd go H.264 anyway.. or offer both. FLV takes up less space because you typically crunch it down more, and people accept this. But at the same quality, H.264 wins, easily.
I'm not talkin' out my butt here, either, I put up a few hours of FLV video every week.
