To mux or not to mux .... no brainier for me now..
muxing is the step in your encoding process where you "join" the audio and video portions of your project into a "playable" file with both sound and picture.
Normally this just happens as part of your render, if you dig deep into some of the mpeg settings you might find some mention of muxing but mostly its inaccessible and not really useful from that pov.
Recently Iv been using a manual mux step in my workflow. I edit in PPro, do sound in cubase.
My old way would require me to render out of ppro each time I wanted to get a new Audio MIX into a playable file. What a pain.
Well, I know that pain no longer.
Now I use an external tool to bring my audio and video together without requiring rerending of video.
I have a muxer! The program I use is My MP4Box GUI 0.6.0.6, but there are many software options.
The mux operation only takes a few moments.
I can reuse the same video file over and over adding different audio mixes with only a few extra steps.
This tool also lets me do video in chunks.. for example, I didn't want to re-render my entire project just to add a credit sequence on the end. Rather I just rendered out the credit sequence, used the "join" function of that tool to cram the credits onto the end of the video.. Then I muxed in an updated audio mix to the now joined file
Now you know why I love to mux!
EDIT: FWIW I think you can do similar thing with QuickTime Pro, though its not called muxing.. you just replace the audio track.. never tried it.. but good choice for prores\mac users..
muxing is the step in your encoding process where you "join" the audio and video portions of your project into a "playable" file with both sound and picture.
Normally this just happens as part of your render, if you dig deep into some of the mpeg settings you might find some mention of muxing but mostly its inaccessible and not really useful from that pov.
Recently Iv been using a manual mux step in my workflow. I edit in PPro, do sound in cubase.
My old way would require me to render out of ppro each time I wanted to get a new Audio MIX into a playable file. What a pain.
Well, I know that pain no longer.
Now I use an external tool to bring my audio and video together without requiring rerending of video.
I have a muxer! The program I use is My MP4Box GUI 0.6.0.6, but there are many software options.
The mux operation only takes a few moments.
I can reuse the same video file over and over adding different audio mixes with only a few extra steps.
This tool also lets me do video in chunks.. for example, I didn't want to re-render my entire project just to add a credit sequence on the end. Rather I just rendered out the credit sequence, used the "join" function of that tool to cram the credits onto the end of the video.. Then I muxed in an updated audio mix to the now joined file
Now you know why I love to mux!
EDIT: FWIW I think you can do similar thing with QuickTime Pro, though its not called muxing.. you just replace the audio track.. never tried it.. but good choice for prores\mac users..
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