Vegas render to youtube?

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buckman

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Am using Vegas 7 and must say that its brilliant!

However this may be a common question but want to know the best settings for rendering to upload to youtube?

Many videos on there use the standard mp4 format which i believe youtube says is the best, as its usually under the 100mb limit.

But these look very grainy once they are uploaded! i have tried .MOV with quicktime as i heard from someone on youtube that they use this to render and upload their files as this quality is better (and i must say it is after veiwing his video on YT)

I have some 5 minute videos that look great in Vegas but i have no idea when it comes to rendering? I have tried several times with different formats as Vegas doesnt seem to give you a "file size estimate" before you go ahead with the render? so you have to sit there and hope for the best..

Does anyone have any settings for a good quality video render upload to YT? my video's seem to come out around 135mb or 360mb which is over the limit? :crybaby:
 
I find .wmv to be best.
Play with settings until you get something you like,
Cut the frame rate back to 15 fps,---and drop quality to 83% if file is too large.
But 5 minutes of .wmv should take up no where near 100 MBs.
 
You could try rendering MPEG-2, it's generally used to keep a video file at high quality and low memory for DVD's. This may make your file come out the right size.

Another option is rendering it at whatever you want at whatever quality you want and then go into Window Movie Maker, import the file to the timeline, and re-render it (or Save to Computer [as it's called]) to 100 mb.

Also...you can apply for a YouTube Directors account. I know you can upload films longer than 10 minutes but I'm not sure if the file size amount changes.
 
aspect ratio and PAR settings

aspect ratio and PAR settings

Hi,
What is your vegas project PAr and aspect ratio settings ?

Patrick

PS: I find the .mpg render from Vegas to exhibit artifacts in moving objects.
 
I think MPEG-2 was developed specifically to encode video for DVD. Not sure if You Tube would accept it. Could take a month of Sundays to upload anyway. YT prefer MPEG-4. With 100 MBs as an upper limit there's plenty of room to experiment with settings to achieve better quality for the end user.
We've been using You Tube as a convenient way to send projects to some clients for approval. Not the best quality for sure, but it works for approval of content.
 
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