For KHV Chorus and my own personal covers, I've been uploading them at MAXIUM QUALITY. ...Which literally takes my computer like four hours+ render, which is ridiculous. Because I really don't -need- it to be in the greatest quality since rarely anyone bothers to switch the quality from 340p to begin with. Yesterday I uploaded a cover of mine ("Sayoko" on my Youtube in my sig, since I don't know if it would be advertising to post it) using different settings. Instead of rendering in WMV, I switched to rendering in MP4 and lowered the quality to 720p HD ...or something. It worked out pretty well, rendering in 20 minutes instead of 2 hours like the instrumental did, but the video doesn't fill the screen and the better the quality you watch it in, the weirder the text looks. [/sob] Anyway, if anyone uses Sony Vegas, do you have any setting you use specifically? Any tips on getting faster rendering with still-pretty results? If you need anymore information, let me know.
I am by no means a video expert, I barely know anything, but this is what I use: First, make sure that your dimensions are properly set in File -> Properties... Now, in the Render As... window, use Windows Media Video V11 (*.wmv) in Save as Type. For Template, hit the Custom button. On the Audio tab... Include Audio: Checked Mode: CBR Format: Windows Media Audio 9.2 Attributes: 64 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo (A/V) CBR On the Video tab... Mode: CBR Format: Windows Media Video 9 Image Size: (Keep original size) Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000 (Square) Frame rate (fps): 29.970 (NTSC) Seconds per keyframe: 3 Override default compression buffer (seconds): Unchecked Video Smoothness: 100 ( Sharpest) On the Bit Rate tab... Everything is unchecked, except Internet/LAN: 2.50 M Ignore the Index/Summary tab. On the Project tab... Both dropdowns set to (Use Project Settings) I usually get nice quality videos from this with a low file size. Rendering time isn't bad, I don't think, but I don't make terribly complicated videos, and if your computer is slow it could be longer. Feel free to play around with the settings. =]
