Render Settings Part 1 The Set- Up(Day 3)

     So throughout my not so lengthy not so short youtube career.  I have been complimented a couple times on the quality of the videos that I put out.  So I figure that I will share my render settings for Sony Vegas Pro 9.0.  There are a lot of things you can do with this program so I am literally gonna walk through my entire editing process from start to finish with a few pictures along the way.

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 From the start you normally find a file using the explorer in Vegas, and if you haven't at least used the program once or twice this part won't make much sense.  There is a preview section on Vegas which show you a sample of your video.  Now there is a button there and this is a very important step so DO NOT leave this one out.  You going to want to find the Project Video Properties Button. fig. 1 There you will need to make sure that all the settings are how I have them. There are quite a few so make sure you take you time to do so.  You will need to do the width, length, frame rate, field order, blur, quality, and everything else that is there just like I have it in fig. 2.
 

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    So after you set all that up you find your file and drag it down to the editing area as I call it, and from the get go you right click on the video part of that file in the work area and go to properties.  There you will see two options keep aspect ratio and disable resample.  What i always do is make sure that keep aspect ratio is unchecked and that disable resample is always filled. fig.3

    After that is set then you can click ok, and I normally right click yet again and go to Video Event Pan/Crop. I do this to make sure there are no black outlines around my video since a HD PVR and a few other recording devices are do this and leave a small black outline around their stock videos.  Also something I forgot to say is make sure when you do the resample and aspect ratio stuff shown above. Click the Media tab and make sure everything is set to what I have shown. fig. 4

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    After you do all of what was in this section you can move onto color correction.  In the next part I will be going over color correction tactics that will make you video pop instead of being the bland standard video.  I use quite a bit of subtle color correcting tactics that you will want to know.  So make sure you check it out.