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Vegas pro youtube render settings
I want to render my dslr footage for the best possible quality on youtube using Vegas Pro 12. 24fps 1920x1080p ALLI h.264. I came across this video.
I’ve matched some of the settings with vegas pro. I’m rendering Main Concept with the youtube preset. I would like to know what all of the settings are. Mainly the “number of” slider. I would like to get the best picture possible for cinematic footage. In the video he is using Premiere and he sets the bit rate all the way to 75 and shows a comparison. The video does appear sharper. Any suggestions?
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“Film look” means different things to different people.
To some it means shallow DoF aka “bokeh” (which I personally think is over-rated). To others it means 24 fps with the resulting motion blur (I also don’t like that, love EFR aka 48 fps as in the Hobbit or on a high-end TV). To others it means wide dynamic range like the 12 f-stops one can get with a Black Magic Cinema camera (that is amazing, but Youtube/h.264) will dumb it down.)
Assuming you start with great footage – no blown highlights, proper white balance and all that and properly color match and edit, what is left is to give YouTube a file that matches what YT wants; it will turn it into 30 fps so you might as well shoot in 29.97 … (others will vehemently disagree 😉 )
I personally yet great results in Vegas for YT using the h.264 MP4 preset, sometimes I bump it down from the 16 Mbps default to make the files smaller so they don’t take so long to upload.
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
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the default settings are average 8mb and max 10mb i believe. i could be wrong. in the video i posted he bumps it way up to 75. also, on the render settings on vegas 12 main concept youtube preset there is a slider adjustment labeled “number of” and it is default to 4 i believe. do you know what this adjustment is for? thanks for the response!
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The “number of slices” slider you can just put at 1. Only specific hardware devices might require a larger number of slices. For example, Blu-ray above a certain level requires 4 slices.
Less slices is better for compression. More slices might, repeat might, improve decode performance on some devices/players.
What a slice means is to divide the frame into X pieces and each piece is completely independent of all others.
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Also, keep in mind that YouTube plays everything in Flash or flv files. From Vegas render to SONY AVC AVCHD 1080p, set the bit rate to 21mbps and set VBR to 2 slices. This produces a very nice standard m2ts file.
Then I convert it to Flash with Squeeze 8. It uploads very nicely and YouTube won’t have to recompress it to play it.
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Thanks, Red.
My copy of Squeeze is so old it is unusable … 🙁
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
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