Encoding 720p from Vegas Movie Studio?

[RandomEngy]

Sorry if this post is a bit noobish, but I've got a HD video project in Sony Vegas and I'm trying to get it to output a H.264 encoded file in 720p. I tried installing DeathTheSheep's x264 VFW codec, but when I go to render the movie with that codec (1280x720 1:1 pixel, progressive, 30 or 60 fps), it tells me that the selected codec does not support the current render settings.

Have I gotten the wrong codec, or am I setting something wrong?

[Dark Shikari]

Your first step is to not use the Video for Windows version of x264, since it is deprecated and more importantly generates streams that are often broken and don't work properly in many players.

Use the command-line utility to encode from a lossless or near-lossless output file.

[Adub]

Dark Shikari's right. Output to a lossless source like Huffyuv or Lagarith and then encode directly via command line or MeGUI or AutoMKV, etc.

It should produce top quality results and play beautifully.

[RandomEngy]

Well that's incredibly irritating. Thanks for the help though.

[Revgen]

I always use avisynth+makeavi's to see videos in Vegas. Vegas is terribly incompatible with too many codecs.

[Adub]

The only thing is that he was going for output, not input.

He could already see the video, he just wanted to convert to x264 directly instead of doing through our workaround.