[Michael Leibson]

If this is of any interest to those following this thread:

Here is a small section of the same video, uploaded to Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/317794704

This section corresponds to what begins at the 2:45 point in the YouTube video (above). While there is still some distortion, it is nowhere as bad as on YouTube.

Any thoughts on this would be very welcome!

Thanks again!

[Michael Leibson]

Thanks for this extra suggestion, Ole — you are very kind!

I took a good look at the video, and I see that the majority of the settings are the same as, or very close to, the ones that you and George had recommended yesterday — and that, unfortunately, didn’t have much effect on YouTube’s distorting things.

The rest of the suggestions in this video have to do with applying some Fx, but I am hesitant to use them, because — well: I have at least 75 tracks in my animated video, and many of these each have a number of specific effects — effects which I very carefully calibrated to achieve the results I wanted. I’m afraid that applying any more effects — especially globally — will create many unintended consequences.

If you take a look at my video, you’ll see that YouTube has distorted things most where there are complex — and quietly moving and shifting — colours. It seems as tho’ this is too much ‘info’ to survive YouTube’s compression methods. . .

But I really appreciate the time that you and George took to help — thanks!

[Michael Leibson]

Thanks to George and Ole for your generous help! Unfortunately, the re-configured and re-rendered version — once uploaded to YouTube — still had the same distortions throughout.

I’ll give Vimeo a try . . .

Thanks, again, for helping!

[Michael Leibson]

Thanks again, Ole!

[Michael Leibson]

[Ole Kristiansen] “Disable Resample All Events – is only for the video track !
“

Thanks again, Ole! Do you mean that the script will automatically NOT affect audio tracks?

[Michael Leibson]

Thank-you, Ole!

If I run that script, will it also affect audio tracks? (I gather that’s something I should not do!)

Some online videos say that one can use the Selection Edit tool, and use Shift and/or Ctrl while dragging the tool in order to select only those tracks and clips one wants to affect — that way, one can deselect the audio tracks. Will this work, in Sony Vegas Pro 13?

Thanks!

[Michael Leibson]

Thank-you, George!

A few related questions:

Re. ‘Disable Resample’: The only way I know of doing this is by using the Selection Edit Tool, selecting all the tracks except the audio tracks, and then going to Edit -> Switches -> Disable Resample. I see that by right-clicking a track event/clip, there is the same option — but I have at least 75 tracks, with even more events than that. Is there an easier way of doing that for all tracks (other than audio) than that?

If these changes turn out to have no positive effect, could it be — as some have suggested — that the problem is simply YouTube’s compression method, and that I should instead use Vimeo?

Thanks again!

[Michael Leibson]

Thank-you, George!

[Michael Leibson]

Thank-you, Francois!

[Michael Leibson]

I realize that this reply is YEARS later (!), but I found that the cause of this same problem – in my case – was due to having used too long a file name for Windows. Once I had significantly shortened the file name, I stopped receiving the error message, and had no difficulty rendering the file.