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  Filesize / rendering problem for Vegas/Youtube

  Posted by Gary Beckwith on February 12, 2009 at 7:14 am

  I’ve read several similar suggestions about the settings for Vegas when posting to youtube (wvm, quality=best, bitrate=1m, 320×240…) and I have a couple questions:

  1) When I follow these instructions, I have a 122MB file that is only a little over 5 minutes. I’m pretty sure Youtube allows 10 minutes and 100MB, so I’d like to be able to have more than a 5 minute file on youtube. Is my compression ratio normal or should it be better?

  2) When I go to the “bit rate” tab on the rendering settings, all the options are greyed out. I can’t select/change the settings. The default is set to ISDN 500K, and I can’t change it. I’m using Vegas Platinum 9. Shouldn’t I be able to change the option to the suggested 1M?

  any help on these questions is appreciated!!!

  thanks
  gary in vermont

  Danny Hays replied 17 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  February 12, 2009 at 12:36 pm

  > <>1) When I follow these instructions, I have a 122MB file that is only a little over 5 minutes. I’m pretty sure Youtube allows 10 minutes and 100MB, so I’d like to be able to have more than a 5 minute file on youtube. Is my compression ratio normal or should it be better?

  It’s not the compression ratio… it’s the bitrate. Try a template with a lower bitrate.

  > 2) When I go to the “bit rate” tab on the rendering settings, all the options are greyed out. I can’t select/change the settings. The default is set to ISDN 500K, and I can’t change it. I’m using Vegas Platinum 9. Shouldn’t I be able to change the option to the suggested 1M?

  You are using Vegas Movie Studio and the Movie Studio version does not allow you to customize rendering templates. You need to purchase Vegas Pro for that functionality.

  ~jr

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  Gary Beckwith

  February 12, 2009 at 4:09 pm

  thanks for the reply but…

  I have read many posts on various websites that recommend the 1M bit rate for Youtube. Are you saying that this only applies to videos of ~4 minutes or less? Why would everyone be saying to use 1M when the resulting file is too large for Youtube?

  I’m using Platinum 9 version, which actually does allow me to customize the rendering templates. I can click the “custom” button and all the tabs give me options to change, except the bitrate tab.

  I guess my version doesn’t allow me to change the bitrate, which is what you’re saying i need to do to get my videos to fit on youtube if they’re over 4 minutes? So I’m just SOL until I spend $450, or go back to Windows Movie Maker? Arg….

  thanks again for any advice
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  Danny Hays

  February 12, 2009 at 4:46 pm

  You tube now allows HD 720p 1 gig file upload limit now. Google you tube HD and read up on it. Danny Hays

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