Render Settings Tutorial Update: Huge Fail! (Part 4) Day 7

    So earlier in this blog I decided to make a small tip/tutorial on editing a quality video in Sony Vegas Pro 9.0.  What I didn't on the other hand was actually do a lot of testing on the subject.  I knew that I had previously used all the settings which I went over in the tutorial and all of which can be used, but there are some slight changes that I would like to bring to everyone's attention.  Some of these changes will be taking out some steps all together and some steps will be slight adjustments to some settings.

    First off I tested adding everything that I talked about in the tutorial to a 10 second video, and the quality came out like crap to say the least.  The picture was fuzzy and at times very blurry, and I have come to realize that is because all the FX in the video at once cause a sort of overload of things happening on screen at once.  So what I continued to do after this was add each effect individually and compare the end render.  So first let's just add the two Color Correctors (primary and secondary) and drag the "Studio RGB to Computer RGB" down to the video file for each separate Color Corrector by selecting "Color Corrector" first and dragging the "Studio RGB to Computer RGB" to the video file and then selecting "Color Corrector (Secondary)" .(Figure 1)

Figure 1

    Along with that you can choose to add a Sharpen effect to the video file as well.  Next I am going to go over how to adjust the Sharpen to give you the best quality that I have found during my recent testing.  So go ahead and select Sharpen as you did for the Color Corrector just scroll down and find "Sharpen".  Then your going to want to select "Reset to None" which is the same thing I mentioned in the earlier parts for this tutorial.  And then drag that to your video file.(Figure 2)  That will then bring up a window for you to adjust the settings for the "Reset to None" preset for the "Sharpen" effect.  I have found that there is a window from .250 to .500 that gives the best quality possible to your video when using this with some type of color correction. (Figure 3)  I have also found that the setting closer to .250 fits this type of color correction better than it fits the "Color Curve" which I am going over next.

Figure 3

Figure 2

 
 

 
    This last part I am going to go over is the BEST setting that I have found when combined with the "Sharpen" amount = .250 to give the BEST quality.  This is the "Color Curve" effect which there's a great guide to this setting HERE: http://success202.blogspot.com/2011/11/render-settings-part-2-color.html .  Now find "Color Curve" in the effects window and then select "Reset to None" and drag that down to the video file as you have done many times now, and use this link above and figures 5 and 6 on that page in order to get the the curve setting perfect.

    The next and MOST IMPORTANT part of this correction to my tutorial is this.  Remember selecting render as after you have finished all of your color correction.  Well I made a big boo boo there in telling you put the Bit Rate option there to 4,000,000.  The absolute best setting here would be to put it at 10,000,000.  So go up to file and select Render As.  Then make sure you have a Save As Type of " Sony AVC(*.mp4; *.m2ts;*.avc), and select Custom.(Figure 4).  Then you want to make that everything is set as I have it and make sure the Bit Rate(bps) setting at the bottom is 10,000,000 or higher.(Figure 5)  Then last but not least make sure in the Project tab of the Custom window make sure the Quality is set to Best.(Figure 6)

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  I hope this guide has been helpful to anyone, and this will be the final and last part of my render settings tutorial for Sony Vegas 9.0.  At the bottom of this page I will put the 11 second video which I rendered with my laptop.  Laptop Stats:

Intel i7 Q720 1.6ghz Dual Quad Core Processor

6GB Ram

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260m video card

  This clip rendered in under 50 seconds for me, and only takes up 13.2mb on the hard drive.  So not bad at all of course you can sacrifice quality for memory and use a lower bit rate, but it really matters for quality in all videos.