Sony Vegas Render Settings when the "video" is just a still photo

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bigox

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I use Sony Vegas 13

The projects I'm rendering are for the purpose of being uploaded on Youtube.


What I'm working on are basically audio files. There is no video. But since this will be played on Youtube, I insert a single still photo for the video image.

My question is, how should I be rendering a file like this?

I don't want to make the files any bigger than they need to be, but I think I might be.

Currently, I'm rendering as MP4 (Sony AVC/MVC) - And I'm selecting the 1920x1080-30p option.

Any thoughts on what render settings I should be using based on what I'm doing?

Thanks a bunch!
 
You can use anything you'd like. If you created a 1920x1080 30p timeline then that output setting is correct. (I'm assuming the software automatically generates the correct output settings based on your timeline's framerate and wouldn't offer you a 24p option for a 30p timeline.)

With that said, if your photo is 8K (for example), you will degrade its resolution.

If resolution or aspect ratio doesn't matter and you're willing to scale or crop the photo, a lower resolution timeline (even 720p) will produce a smaller file size. (But it sounds like they should already be extremely small video files.)
 
Thanks!

The file sizes aren't too big, but I'd like to reduce my Render and Upload times if the quality isn't going to be that big of a difference.

The photo in question is average. The audio is the important aspect.

Are there any project settings you would recommend ?
 
If they have very long running times and there are a lot of them, maybe use 1280x720 and a 24p timeline to knock off a few frames.

Also, you don't need to render and then export (in case you're doing that as it was a common error back in the day).

Other than that, the next step for more time saving would be to produce standard definition formats, but I wouldn't recommend it and 720p would be the lowest I would go.
 
It's a long time since I used Vegas 13, but on the newer versions of Vegas, as your focus is audio quality, I'd also go into the audio tab of the render settings and increase the default bitrate from 128,000 to 320,000
 
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