Beiträge von Joe24

    BTW....Unlike the Blu-ray render workflow in Vegas / DVD Architect, you don't need a separate AC3 audio render if you use TMPGEnc Authoring Works. You can use Voukoder/VoPro to render a compatible MP4 video file containing AC3 audio, and TMPGEnc will pass it through without re-encoding.

    Why would you encode to MPEG-2 for a Blu-ray, instead of MP4/AVC? The capability TECHNICALLY exists to use MPEG-2 on a Blu-ray, but it's such a poor option as to be mind-boggling. Very inefficient compression, compared to MP4. (Shudder.) You do you, I guess.

    1.8 Mbps is definitely on the low side, depending on what you're doing. If you're packing a long conference onto a disc and don't mind cheese-quality video, it's probably fine. If you're trying to archive a movie and expect great quality... yeah, not so much.

    If you want Voukoder settings that work in TMPGEnc without re-encoding, here are some (very) basic ones to get you started:

    dxdy
    7. Juli 2021 um 19:21

    You're trying to make a DVD?

    Bitrate limit for MPEG-2 DVDs is 9.8 Mbps, and max resolution is 720x480.

    Your files are *way* outta spec! (E.g., resolution is set to 1080p, bitrate on the one file is 23.5Mbps).

    Any DVD authoring program you plug these files into would need to re-encode them.

    For some reason DVD Architect want to recompress it again

    DVD Architect is stupid like that... and will never tell you why it doesn't like something. I didn't find a way to make DVDA work with any non-Vegas MP2 DVD renders, and got tired of fighting with old buggy (and abandoned!) software.

    I switched to TMPGEnc Authoring Works and never looked back. Quality code, uses your GPU for MP2 encoding, and if there's a problem with your files it'll tell you what it doesn't like about them.

    If you're making Blu-rays, TMPGEnc will take Voukoder-encoded MP4 files with no recoding (as long as your files meet the Blu-ray specifications). If you're making DVDs, TMPGEnc will port your Blu-ray project to DVD, and has GPU-accelerated MPEG-2 transcoding built-in.

    There's a trial period if you just want to download and try TMPGEnc.

    sorry, I dont understand.

    Relax. I'm just agreeing with you, and providing a video showing the crash happening. Yes, Voukoder connectors cause Vegas Pro 12 to crash.

    I wonder if it's a glitch in how templates are being reported to Vegas by Voukoder.... because this issue happens while Vegas is trying to populate the Render As list.

    (This forum is currently refusing to upload files, which is a separate issue.)

    I'm using 8-bit.


    This forum won't allow me to upload a screen capture of the crash. Tried uploading in GIF format (3.4 MB) and ZIP format (4.7 MB). Neither works, although the stated upload limit is 20 MB, and both file formats are listed as supported. Hmm . . .

    (Webpage error: The file size exceeds the PHP limit "upload_max_filesize" and/or "post_max_size".)


    EDIT: see screen capture posted below in Post #15.

    I haven't used my copy of Vegas 12 for about a year and a half (July 2022), judging by the log files. It got to be a hassle changing the connector back and forth (uninstall/reinstall) between 12 and 15 every time.

    But I know it did work with Voukoder at one point, and I'm pretty sure it was working last time I used it a year and a half ago. Tried the Voukoder/connector versions from that time period, though, and no joy.

    Maybe something changed with Windows folder permissions etc? It's odd that no connector versions seem to work with Vegas Pro 12.

    In "About Vegas Pro" -> "Components", voukoderplug.dll is listed. So the connector appears to be properly installed.

    I did do a fresh install on a different computer, and behavior is identical.

    Did some testing here, and there does seem to be an issue with Vegas Pro 12 (and possibly 13, judging by other recent threads). I only have Vegas Pro 12, 15, and 20 installed.

    Vegas Pro versions 15 and 20 seem to work fine.

    When Voukoder connector is installed in Vegas Pro 12 (I tried connector versions back to 0.7.2 from 2020, along with Voukoder versions back to 5.0), hitting the Render As button in Vegas brings up the Render As menu, which displays a "Loading Templates . . . " message for a few seconds, and then Vegas crashes to Windows desktop.

    Changing Voukoder versions makes no difference, and changing connector versions makes no difference. If any Voukoder connector is installed to Vegas Pro 12, Vegas crashes when clicking Render As. If you uninstall the connector, Vegas then functions normally (don't need to uninstall Voukoder itself).

    I don't really want to wipe all my settings and cache from Vegas, if I can avoid it. If somebody else wants to try on their system, hold Ctrl+Shift while double-clicking the Vegas icon on your Windows desktop.

    Not sure which log file to pull. There seem to be several of them. The only file in the %localappdata%\Sony\Vegas Pro 12.0\ folder containing the phrase "voukoder" is the file FFCache_x64_1033.ini , which isn't super helpful: