Best Render Settings for 1920×1080 25p Footage?

[Stephen Crye]

Hi Chris;

Your question is difficult to answer because you have not given us much to go on – “BEST” is not a precisely defined term. What is your intended audience/format? Youtube? Blu-ray? An .mp4 on a usb thumb drive you hand to a buddy? What kind of footage?

I’m an IT pro by trade and do Vegas on the side as a hobby. I’ve spent the last 5 years learning video stuff and still feel ignorant… so don’t rush things. Read, read , read.

Good luck,

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8

[Chris Delamo]

The final video will be aired in Germany.

It will be released on online, as well as broadcast on German television networks.

I’m pretty sure German TV standards are based on PAL settings.

[Stephen Crye]

Which on-line service?

I’m still not sure what the actual frame rate in your browser will be when watching any given video on a computer in Europe. Your monitor refresh rate could be anything – mine happens to be 72 Hz. I encode to h.264 at 29.97 fps, progressive. According to this page, https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en , YT seems to want to preserve the native frame rate of a video, so if your video is 25 fps, and you encode to h.264 at 25 fps, the result just might appear on your monitor in Germany at 25 fps.

The same should be true for DVD and BluRay.

Television is a whole ‘nuther thing … in the UK, the BBC is very picky about what will be aired – they insist on a minimum of 4:2:0 color and 50 Mbps (usually MPEG-2). You might want to ask someone at a TV station what they require.

This thread has some good info about Studio RGB vs Computer RGB.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/973184#973184

Have fun!

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8

[Dave Osbun]

I suggest you take a few minutes and search the forum. This question is asked regularly and has been answered many, many times.

[Stephen Crye]

Correction to my previous post. I wrote : ” … they insist on a minimum of 4:2:0 color” ; I meant to say : “… they insist on a minimum of 4:2:2 color.”

A good article on color sampling:
https://www.dvxuser.com/articles/colorspace/

The Red site has a lot of fascinating info on video stuff:

https://www.red.com/learn/red-101/archive/all

in particular this:

https://www.red.com/learn/red-101/video-chroma-subsampling

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8