Create a CineForm Render Template in Sony Vegas Pro
Versions of Sony Vegas 6, 7, & Pro 8 shipped with CineForm codec and render templates for Cineform, but starting with Vegas Pro 9, Sony stopped shipping the CineForm codec and stopped supplying CineForm render templates. If you would like to continue working with CineForm in Vegas Pro 9 forward, you will need to purchase the codec from CineForm. Currently the least expensive solution is to purchase CineForm NeoScene. Once you have purchase CineForm NeoScene and installed it, you will still need to create render templates in order to use it for output. This tutorial will show you how to create a CineForm template for rendering.
Follow these steps after you have purchased and installed CineForm NeoScene:
- Make sure that your project properties are set to match the render template you are about to make. In this example we are going to make an NTSC HDV 1440×1080 render template so we set our project properties to HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080, 29.970 fps). Make sure that you audio is set to a sample rate of 48,000 and a bit depth of 16-bit.
- Next we want to make a render template that matches our project. We start by bringing up the Render As Window using: File | Render As… and selectVideo for Windows (*.avi) as the Save as type and Default Template (Uncompressed) as the Template. By using the Default Template, we are ensured that the properties will match our project. Then press the Custom… button to continue.
- In the Custom Settings window, select CineForm Codec as the Video format and 0.250 as the interleave interval. Press the Configure… button to configure the CineForm codec.
- In the Configure CineForm Codec window, select Medum as the Encoding quality. Medium is a good tradeoff between file size and quality and is the default that Vegas Pro used for versions 6, 7, & 8. You can use a higher quality of your work demands it, but medium should be enough for most post work. PressOK to accept the changes.
- Click the Audio tab and make sure that your Sample rate is set to 48,000 and that the Audio format is PCM Uncompressed.
- Finally, give your new template a descriptive name and save it for future use by pressing the Diskette button. Press OK to return to the Render As window.
- You now have a new template to render your project as CineForm files.
Hopefully this will give you a good starting point for creating more templates of your own. It’s always best when creating templates to make your project match the render template settings and start with Default Template (Uncompressed) so that all of the project properties carry over to the new template. Then just change the video format to the codec you’d like to use. Alternately, you can start with an existing template that is close to the one you’d like to make and just make the changes needed to use the new codec.
Happy Editing,
Johnny “Roy” Rofrano
Hey John…
Was having a look around your website and found this tutorial very helpful, as with all the stuff you post.
I was very interested to see and note that as a musician you have a section on copyright with a link to copyright and fair use.
I’ve done a ‘parody’ as the intro for my project and currently seeking a Sync licence for the full song track that is used with all the video content which I own.
Just wondering if I could send you the intro and get your opinion on whether it should qualify as ‘Fair use’… obviously I’m biased so a third party opinion would be helpful.
If that would be cool I can upload to We Transfer but will need an email for the download link to be sent to you.
cheers,
Nick
You really need to talk to a copyright attorney to determine if this is “fair use” or not. I’m sure any judge would be totally uninterested in what I have to say. 😉 Usually any parody is deemed fair use but, as I said, check with your lawyer if you are unsure.
Sir John,
Read all your stuff on Intermediaries Creative Cow. Got a AMD R9 290 card for better VP13 experience.
I am doing multiple cam editing average 4-6 cams. 3 types footage.
Sony EX1 1920×1080 30P 35Mbps – 2 Cam
Panasonic 1920×1080 59.94P 50Mbps – 2 Cam
Canon 1920×1080 29.97 – 2 cam
Is it worth converting to intermediaries to smooth out process – kind of bogs the machine if so? Cineform or is XAVC an intermediary – When you wrote me about Catalyst and said sony is moving toward a better codec XAVC. I didn’t know if this would be good to go to. Or am I just expecting to much from my machine. Thank You
Don