Best Vegas Pro 1080 rendering settings

[John Rofrano]

[Dusan Jotic] “I own Sony HDR-CX105 1920x1080i camera. I have a Blu-Ray player and burner. I’d like to know what are the best rendering settings in Vegas Pro for me.”

The Sony HDR-CX105 is an AVCHD camera so you might want to rendering using the Sony AVC/MVC codec with the Blu-ray 1920×1080-50i, 16 Mbps video stream or 60i template to keep it the same format.

[Dusan Jotic] “Also, what would be perfect PC configuration for this (CPU, RAM, Graphic card).”

Any one of the VideoGuys DIY9 builds would be perfect. Here is what I recently built from those specs:

Intel Hex Core Video Editing Workstation

~jr

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[Dusan Jotic]

Thank you John.
I put a project (100 min) to render today, using Sony AVC/MVC codec with the Blu-ray 1920×1080-50i. What I noticed is the rendering time which is 2x more than using MainConcept MPEG-2’. I hope this is normal.

Dusan

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Regards,
Dusan Jotic

[David Alfredo]

increased rendering times for that template are normal AFAIK

[John Rofrano]

[Dusan Jotic] “I put a project (100 min) to render today, using Sony AVC/MVC codec with the Blu-ray 1920×1080-50i. What I noticed is the rendering time which is 2x more than using MainConcept MPEG-2’. I hope this is normal.”

Yes, as David pointed out, AVC is a lot more compute intensive to encode than MPEG2 is. At this point you need to ask yourself, “Does the output look the same”? and “Is it worth the extra wait?”. AVC @ 16Mbps should be the same quality as MPEG2 @ 25Mbps so you may not see a difference in quality in which case I would continue to use MPEG2 and save yourself the render time.

~jr

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[Dusan Jotic]

A big THANK YOU for the answers, I really appreciate it!

Project that I’m currently rendering in AVC I actually couldn’t render properly in MPEG2 these days. Vegas pro 12 (I also tried on Vegas pro 11) showed that rendering process was successful, while there were 20 minutes missing on the output video file. I tried 4 times: with and without loop regions, in Vegas pro 11 and always the same, always renders 100% while the output video lasts 1:28:00 instead of 1:45:00. Could this have something to do with Windows 8? It’s my first project since I upgraded from Win 7. I did at least 50 projects in the past 2 years and so far I didn’t experience something similar…

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Regards,
Dusan Jotic

[John Rofrano]

[Dusan Jotic] “I tried 4 times: with and without loop regions, in Vegas pro 11 and always the same, always renders 100% while the output video lasts 1:28:00 instead of 1:45:00. Could this have something to do with Windows 8? It’s my first project since I upgraded from Win 7. I did at least 50 projects in the past 2 years and so far I didn’t experience something similar…”

Wow that is really strange. I can’t imagine that Windows 8 would have anything to do with it but then again, I can’t imagine why it would render to 100% and have missing video so just about anything could be the cause. So Sony AVC renders properly but MainConcept MPEG2 doesn’t? Are you sure that you don’t have “render loop region” checked? That would be the only explanation that makes sense.

~jr

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[Dusan Jotic]

It was strange to me as well. Imagine that I rendered 4 times with the same result. I literally went crazy! Afterwards I changed to AVC, which delivered full video. I should finish it in DVD Architect later today.
With MainConcept MPEG2 I tried firstly without loop region checked, then I selected full video in Vegas pro 12 and checked loop region, but I got the same result in output file – 20 mins missing… Then I did the same thing in Vegas 11. All 4 times Vegas reports successful rendering process. I could even see, during the process of rendering, in the preview window, how it renderes those last 20 minutes…

At the end I followed your suggestion and redid the job in AVC. Is it normal now that my output video file, rendered in AVC, weighs 11Gb, while in MPEG2 is 18Gb? So far all the projects that I rendered in MPEG2 were arround 20 Gb (90 minutes). Could that influence quality on output video?

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Regards,
Dusan Jotic

[John Rofrano]

[Dusan Jotic] “Is it normal now that my output video file, rendered in AVC, weighs 11Gb, while in MPEG2 is 18Gb? So far all the projects that I rendered in MPEG2 were arround 20 Gb (90 minutes). Could that influence quality on output video?”

The AVC file will be smaller because it uses different and higher level compression then MPEG2. 16Mbps AVC is equal to 25Mbps MPEG2 so MPEG2 will always be larger than AVC for the same quality and length.

~jr

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[Dusan Jotic]

John,

Thank you for your replies.
You have been very helpful.

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Regards,
Dusan Jotic

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome. Glad I could help.

~jr

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