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My brief Sony Ericsson MP4 video Encoding guide



What you will need:



Sony Vegas or another similar movie tool 

which will allow you 

to encode in mpg/mpeg and also allow 

volume alterations and such. 

(My tutorial will be based on the use of the tools I reconmend and use.)



Main concept Mpeg 1 and 2 plugins for vegas



Imtoo Mpeg encoder



Mpegable X4 Live player or Quicktime for playback of newly rendered mp4 files



Ok Heres What we do:



Find the video you want to put on your D750i please make 

sure it is at least 720 x 480 and of Good Quality. 

The higher the quality it is in large form, 

the better it should be in 177 x 144 form and 

if possible it should be in .mpg format.

Open Vegas and open the video you want to use.

Any alterations we do on the video before we make it an mp4 we will do here.

Check the video for a good sound level if need make any alterations.



Now, once you are happy that the video is okay, 

we need to render it a little smaller 352 x 288. 

We do this by going to render as, and selecting from the save as type list "Main concept mpeg 1" 

Next we click custom.

Select the video tab output type should be mpeg-1. 

include video stream should be checked and you should input 

the frame size as 352 x 288. 

Frame rate should be 29.970 and aspect ratio 0.9751.

I-Frames should be set to 15 B-Frames to 2 and Video quality should be 25.



Insert sequence header and write sequence should be checked.



Check Constant bitrate and select 1,700,700 then click the audio tab



Include audio stream should be checked

audio mode should be stereo mode

psychoacoustic model should be model 2

audio layer should be audio layer 2

bitrate (Kbps) should be 224

No emphesis

Sample rate (Hz) should be 41.100



Click OK



Give the video a name in the file name box and find a place to save it.



feel free to tweak about with these settings as quality requires. 

You will end up after this render with a file about 10 mb bigger 

than the original, im sure some tweaking in Vegas could change this, 

although the file I made in vegas was 

10mb bigger, the end mp4 was actually smaller than an mp4 I had made from the original.



Next Step:



We need to close vegas or leave it open hell it's your machine lol.. and we need to open imtoo mpeg encoder.



once open, select the file we just made in Vegas. 

In the profile box at the bottom we want to select

 MP4 but only the one that says MPEG-4 Video Format (*.mp4)

 the other 2, one is for ipod and the other for psp although

 i have gotten the psp to work it isnt suitable so please select this carefully!!!



chode a destination to save the mp4 via the destination box at the bottom.



Next click on the file you added to be converted

 and on the right is a config box, here we need to alter some configurations.



1. Set video to 176 x 144



2. Click on bitrate, click the part where it says auto 

(this config can be confusing 

to new users so I'll explain that you need to click on the cell next to bitrate where it says auto 

to change the value) here we set the bitrate to a value 

between 100 and 200 the lower

 the value, the smaller 

the end file will be. 

I had it set to 150 and got a 55mb file down to 8mb with good quality audio and video.



3. Change Frame Rate to 15 anything higher and the video will play incorrectly on the d750i handset.



4. scroll down to audio



5. the aduio codec should say mpeg4aac



6. change bit rate to 112, you can use 96 but 112 

sounds better. again the lower the value the smaller the 

end file, bit with compression and reduction comes loss of quality!!



7. set sample rate to 44.100. 

you can probably go lower but I havn't tried it. 

again I gues this would aid in a smaller end file.



8. set channels to 2 stereo, 

you could probably use 1 mono but my guess i

s the end mp4 would sound nasty.



make sure dissable audio says false.



Click ENCODE