Question / Help Editing afterwards - Transcode to what?

[DryRoastedLemon]

Hey guys,

I'm just getting into streaming and I'd like to edit th videos afterwards (I do this in Vegas). For this purpose I also save them on my computer as I'm streaming. However, I've found that x264 is a very difficult codec to work with. As a direct editing codec, it's not performing very well.

So I was wondering: what would you guys suggest? Transcoding to Huffyuv takes a lot of time and space, and I've just spent an hour or so figuring out if frameserving could perhaps do the job, but alas.

So what do you guys suggest?

 

[Lain]

MP4 files should be compatible with vegas already as long as you make sure you are using AAC and have "Use CFR" in advanced enabled.

 

[DryRoastedLemon]

Whoops, I hadn't responded to this at all.

Hey Jim. Yeah, MP4 files are compatible, but x264 is a poor codec for editing purposes. What happens in Vegas is that the first couple of minutes are fine, but the further I go the glitchier the video becomes. While x264 is absolutely great for playback, it is way too heavy for editing purposes, hence the transcoding question.

I had already figured something out. It increased the size, but transcoding it to MPEG2 worked wonders. After I was done editing, all I needed to do was switch the source file to the original MP4 and render it :)