I use Sony Vegas, it will handle the h.264 video fine, and it will output to an mp4 ipod capatible file....however, it does not "fast start" and it won't play on the Iphone via streaming.
How I do it is that I use Sony Vegas for the heavy lifting, editing, etc, and then output it to an uncompressed .avi file and then use Quicktime pro to render out to the Ipod/Iphone capatible format. It's an extra step but....it's well worth it overall. It looks good, it plays on ever device that is mp4 capable as well.... As a side note, I think I have tried just about every other way to get an h.264 file without using quicktime and I have always been disapointed later....I finally just gave in on that and went with the QT pro option.... Heath http://heathparks.com --- In [email protected], "Davis Freeberg" <da...@...> wrote: > > The few video editing software programs I've used have been pretty basic and > disappointing. Lots of bugs, limitations and crashing. I'd like to upgrade > to something that lets me input h.264 files, edit them there and then export > into H.264/MKV. Was wondering if anyone had an opinion on the programs I > should be looking at? I'm a PC user, so that leaves out Apple. I'd like to > find out which one is the best as well as the best one that doesn't cost an > arm or a leg. >
