[DanielG]

Thanks for the frameserving suggestion. I downloaded an open-source frameserver called "Debugmode Frameserver" which allowed me to pipe the encoding into TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress. Though I needed to perform a minor hack to get DebugMode Frameserver working with Vegas 10 Pro (details are here - see second post).

I'm not familiar with the HC23 encoder and I couldn't find anything about it online. Did you mean HC Encoder v0.25?

I do have a question about DebugMode Frameserver. When I save the signpost file, there's an option to specify the video output. The choices are: RGB24 (default choice) RGB32 and YUY2. Which one should I select? My source video is AVCHD 24Mbps from a Sony XR150 video camera.

Anyway, thanks for the help. I was pulling my hair out trying to get this encoding to work... It's strange that I wasn't able to find any other reports online re: the Mainconcept Encoder issues though...