About video quality in sony vegas 13

[Steve Rhoden]

Best rendering format for what, meaning where are your rendered videos destined?
Render formats differs depending on what you gonna do with the finished content.

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[Balazs Puma]

the original file is 1080p .MOV , i would like to store on my pc losless and upload it to youtube aswell. but youtube is an other problem it makes my videos darker

[Norman Black]

[balazs puma] “the original file is 1080p .MOV , i would like to store on my pc losless and upload it to youtube aswell. but youtube is an other problem it makes my videos darker”

Forget the lossless thoughts. True lossless rendered files are more massive than you can imagine. Your best lossless are your original files and the Vegas project itself.

For uploading to Youtube, look at rendering with the Mainconcept or Sony AVC “Internet” templates. These renders are not really suitable for archive.

If you really want a rendered archive format you might look at XAVC Intra which is a codec native to Vegas. Or if you install a codec DNxHD or Cineform. These are all intermediate formats. The files will be quite large but high quality.

If your video gets darker on Youtube it sounds like you have a levels problem. There are countless threads on this and other forums on this subject. If this is the case, your camera is outputting full range data, Computer RGB, and the renders need to be in the Studio RGB range. If your camera is a DLSR then situation is a near certainty.