Welcome to the last step, if you will, in this Sony Vegas render settings and video effects tutorial. Today I am going to go over a couple small but very important things today. Let's get started by first going to the top left of your Vegas window and click file, then find Render As(fig. 1), and click that. You should see what looks like a Save As window, and you will notice that it till ask you for a save as type. For that you are going to select Sony AVC(*.mp4,*.m2ts,*.avc).(fig. 2) This will give you the best quality render with the least amount of memory taken up on your hard drive. So it's the best bang for your buck I would say.
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After that is selected you are going to want to customize that type of setting so click Custom... And it will bring you to another window. First you will want to type something into the Template section at the top and click the disk as this will save this template. There are four key settings here; Frame Size, Frame Rate, Pixel Aspect Ratio, Bit rate(bps).(fig. 3) You can mess with the Field Order setting, and it should be set to the same setting that you set it to in part 1 of this tutorial. I think it was actually set to Upper Field First if I remember correctly. Keep in mind that messing with this hasn't made much of a change that I can tell so I just leave it alone as None(progressive scan), but make sure it is Upper Field first on the settings page that you did in the first part of the tutorial, because that makes a big difference for some reason.
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Let's start with changing the settings I mentioned. First you will want to make sure you select High definition (1280x720), because this gives you the 720p option when you upload your video to youtube. If you want 1080p then you can select 1920x1080 or 1440x1080 not sure of the difference between the two beside one being a lot wider than the other. Next make sure the next two options are set to Baseline and CAVLC. Then move on to Frame rate and select 29.970(NTSC) if you are in the US. If you are in Europe your going to want to select PAL as this is the format that your XBOX and television are in. Then make sure your Pixel aspect ratio is set to 1.0000 as you don't want any of your pixel stretched and distort your video. Next is the key to quality, the Bit rate. On this setting the higher the setting the more quality your going to get out of it but the more memory each video will take up. Now to save render time and upload time I have found a happy medium between quality and time spent rendering and set this to 4,000,000 bps. If you have a really good computer your can go almost as high as you want given that you have the memory to do so. The last part of this section will be to click the Project tab inside the Custom Settings window(fig. 4), and select Best for the Quality. The very last part is go back to the Video tab of this window and save the template once more, and you will never have to make any changes as all these settings will be saved. Click ok at the bottom and it will bring your back to the Render As screen, click save and name the file whatever you want. Now each video will take awhile to render so just leave it alone to do its thing while you eat a sandwich or something. I hope this tutorial has come in handy and has provided some good tips for you beginners. My next post will continue with other things involving my success or unsuccess with youtube, so pretty much my thoughts. Thanks for reading everyone. Here's an example video of what my render settings can produce.
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