[Dave Stafford]

Hi

It won’t help me or you if I look at your clip – you will need to examine carefully everything – your camera settings, the settings in Vegas, and so on – and keep trying things until you render a video that looks and sounds RIGHT.

Each camera is different, and Vegas itself must be set to “match” as well as possible.

Looking at a video would mean nothing to me – I could not tell “what is wrong” by seeing it, in fact, I am no expert, I really know very little, except that your camera rate and your Vegas setting should match, you should use “Fast Start” – but other than that – you have so many settings.

For example, is your camera interlaced or not? There are settings for this. My camera is not. So I have to turn interlacing on, and just from some advice I got, I use the setting “Blend”.

But maybe yours is different. Maybe YOU need a different setting than I do.

I know this is frustrating – I spent WEEKS before I could render a good video, and a video that looked good on YouTube. You might get it tomorrow, it might take 7 weeks of experimenting.

If you have to, you can render the same clip with 20 different settings (take screen shots, number them “TEST No 1” etc. – and then you WILL find it…

patience – luck – but I can’t really do much to help. wish I could….

all the best

dave

[Dave Stafford]

Hi

Well, I have managed to do OK, I got someone to help me, and I now have settings that I can use in Vegas to create HD video reliably, and upload to YouTube, with good results.

But this will be different for EACH PERSON. You need to consider many things, one, your camera, and what settings, what frame rate, etc…

Then in Vegas, you want to match that frame rate (so – don’t film at 32 and then render Double PAL 50).

But there are many different settings, unfortunately, I can’t just say “try this” – you have to keep trying.

You won’t want to render to full HD for YouTube – the files will be too large, and they will just compress them anyway. So the best compromise is – make a GREAT HD video for yourself, in full 1080 HD. Make it look GOOD.

Then, render it to a compressed format, either MP4 or wmv probably. It still is “shown” in HD, it still looks HD, even though it’s been compressed. YouTube will compress the heck out of it ANYWAY, so you will never get a “FULL HD” video up there – forget it!

So – I can’t tell you much. I think most important is, use the same frame rate, if your camera is 50h/50i, then render at 50. If your camera is 32, render at 32. Don’t mix them up.

Other than that – uh, I am not sure. Try to make the Render As settings as close to the settings of the camera as possible.

I hope this helps a LITTLE. I learned the hard way, I would render, and upload – and it would look HORRIBLE. So I would delete. Change the settings, render, upload – it looks HORRIBLE. Delete again. Finally, with a lot of help from a lot of people, I started to get the settings “right”. But that’s only right for ME, I have a different camera to you, so my setting won’t neccessarily work for you.

If I can answer any specific question, I will try.

Oh yes – one thing you MUST do. You must make each completed, rendered video “Fast Start”. Go and download a small tool that does this. So now, the last step in my process is, when the video has rendered, before I do anything, I run the “Fast Start” tool on it/

If you don’t do this, you WILL have audio/video sync issues on YouTube, so this COULD be part of the problem.

I wish you luck, let me know if I can help – I will try.

Dave at pureambient.com