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Avermedia Live Gamer capture card + Sony Vegas render settings advice
Hello, I was recently using Dxtory to record some gameplay footage for youtube and while it recorded files at quite a large size, I was always able to render them down to become quite small, like going from 20+GB files rendered to 400-600 MB.
I purchased an Avermedia Live Gamer HD capture card recently and have been using it to record my gameplay. It recorded files much much smaller, I’m talking about a 20 minute video becoming only 3GB in size. But when I render down the video using the exact same settings it comes out at 1.03 GB. I was expecting it to be much smaller based on past experience the other way. I as hoping someone could shed some light on it.
When recording with Dxtory I was recording 720p video in an H.264 format. With the Capture Card I am still doing MP4 H.264, but I am recording at 1080p now. The bitrate for recording is 20,000kbps.
Hope this info helps and in return someone can help me, I want to know how to make them smaller like before.As over 1GB videos are too big to upload for my internet.
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[Sean Mcloughlin] “Hope this info helps and in return someone can help me, I want to know how to make them smaller like before.As over 1GB videos are too big to upload for my internet. “
The bit rate determines the file size. Your 20Mbps bit rate in that render template is overkill for YouTube. Lower it down to get the file to the size that you want.
BTW, it makes no sense to render Variable Bit Rate and set the Max and Average to the same size. If you want a constant bit rate you should use CBR but in this case you want VBR with a lower average bit rate.
~jr
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So what would you suggest for youtube? As these are video game videos I need as much clarity as I can get away with. Also I’m not fully sure about the whole bit rate thing yet, I’m a big noob when it comes to that 😛
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[Sean Mcloughlin] “So what would you suggest for youtube? As these are video game videos I need as much clarity as I can get away with.”
YouTube recommends 8Mbps for 1080p (that’s 8,000,000) If that doesn’t look good enough you could try 10Mbps or 12Mbps but at some point the file will just become too large.
~jr
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Awesome, thanks very much for the help. Appreciate it greatly
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