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rraud wrote on 12/27/2021, 2:48 PM

Seasons greetings @Mark-Truett, The <.mov> extension is just a wrapper, what codec do you wish to encode the video as. If you just need a standard AVC/AAC video file, render the file as an MP4, then change the extension to *.mov after the render.. if the .mov extension is a necessity.

btw, why are you rendering video in an audio app in the first place. If it is just the audio that is changed, muxing in the audio in is a much better procedure quality-wise, the video is not re-encoded
SFP-15 renders MOV videos on my PC. I have Quicktime Alt installed.

 

Mark-Truett wrote on 12/27/2021, 3:10 PM

I am editing clips from a zoom camera that are in .mov format. I will be using Premier Elements to edit the video but first, I correct the audio levels in sound forge. When I render the final product in Premier it will be mp4 but I only want to adjust the audio in SF and not affect any other aspects. In SF12 I could run the limiter and then save without selecting templates or any other settings.

Mark-Truett wrote on 12/27/2021, 3:12 PM

muxing?

 

 

btw, why are you rendering video in an audio app in the first place. If it is just the audio that is changed, muxing in the audio in is a much better procedure quality-wise, the video is not re-encoded
 

 

 

rraud wrote on 12/27/2021, 4:04 PM

Muxing, in this scenario, replacing the embedded audio in a video file without re-rendering the picture.. resulting in no quality loss to the video whatsoever. It is relatively quick procedure, and usually faster then re-rendering if the video is more than a minute or two.

Sound Forge AS-12 could do this natively as I recall, but not the other SF versions AFAIK. There are other third-party utilities. AvidMux, MeGUI, FFmpeg, MP4Box, to name a few. I recall a HOS (Happy Otter Script) if you have Vegas Pro.

Mark-Truett wrote on 12/27/2021, 9:54 PM

Thanks for your help.

I believe SF12 was allowing me to edit audio without re-rendering or affecting the video. It allowed me to make my adjustments without having to deal with separate audio and video files. SF15 has all the functionality to do the same thing but it would hang up when i tried to save the .mov file.

Also, is there a way to have the codec for .mov without installing quicktime?

Mark-Truett wrote on 12/27/2021, 10:06 PM

Its a 3gb file and i have at least 250gb free.

rraud wrote on 12/28/2021, 11:00 AM

There are numerous codecs that use the <.mov> extension. I would think the most common for streaming and such is the AVC/AAC. If that is the case, render a MainConcept MP4 (or other) which uses AVC/AAC, You can change the extension to .mov if necessary and it should playback w/o issue. This would not change the codec though or make better or worse.
For broadcast submissions, the QT Prores codec is common. But that is not native to Sound Forge.

btw, if you edit the timeline, in terms of adding or deleting, the file's audio and video must be re-rendered. I do not think any version of Sound Forge (aside from the unique AS-12) can replace audio without re-rendering the video as well.