Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 - Making a low-size file for YouTube

L

luminousnerd

New member
Hey guys,
I have edited before but never actually done the rendering. It's really quite sad.

Anyway, what I need is to create a file that is less than 100MB. The whole thing is about 6 minutes, 15 seconds.

What do I do? Try to make it simple for me if you can. How do I start? Do I need to D/L anything? Etc..everything I need to do, I've already finished editing of course.

Thanks a lot guys!
 
You'll be abe to get an ok looking version (similar to other stuff on youtube) if you do a higher bit-rate Mpeg-4. If you keep your average bitrate on 700k (whatever is the option below 2,000,000) then you'll probably get a 40-45MB file wich will download faster than it plays on any DSL connection and you can keep your audio as is, and you can make the size much bigger...

for a 4:20 clip I used the bitrate mentioned above and made the size 1.75 times bigger than youtube recomends so instead of 320x240 I rendered a 560x420 version... I however don't see as much of resolution benefit from this as raising the bit rate did... but when viewers choose to view full-screen it does look a bit better than when watching a 320x240 version of the same clip rendered with the same bitrate and same MPEG-4...
 
Sorry but it doesn't mean anything to me. I know File>render as, but once I'm there I don't know what I'm doing.

I looked around for something with Mpeg-4 but all I found was Mpeg1 and Mpeg2.

Thanks for the advice, maybe you could detail it more for me? Thanks.
 
if you didn't see the Mpeg-4 option under "Save As Type:" then you have to go to the sony software site and download the update for Vegas 6.0 you'll get a bunch of things added to it including the Mpeg-4 codec, and it is free... HERE IT IS

so after you download and install that, go back to your Vegas and hit File then Render As...... then look at the options you have for your file types (FYI this is like selecting wether you want your song saved as an MP3 or something else, and like selecting if you want a bitmap or a Jpeg for pictures, the type of file, the extension)... you should now have Mpeg-4 as one of them... then youwill want to start looking at the "Custom" options... now and in any other file you save (rendering is basically saving a project, when you are working on one you just change what you want the project to look like, from here to here use this part of this clip and so on, but when you render you are making the actual file itself and saving it somewhere) so you should look at the different "Custom" options you have for each file type... each file type will have different options... so what you are doing here essentially is selecting how much info to use to save your audio your video and much more...

one important thing to know:
under all of these file types (codecs is another word used for these "languages") is that you can have Interlaced or Native video... you'll find this option in the Video tab, as "File Order:" what that does is switch from the way TVs work to the way all other display methods work... TVs are only part of the equation, you also need your satellites, TV stations and what-not sending the signal out... to make it easier they figured out a way to save space by interlasind the image which means that they only display half the picture at a time, but so fast that we can't tell, so they save space and life is easier for them... (PLEASE KEEP IN MIND I AM JUST TYPING AWAY AND I DON'T QUALIFY AS A PRO IN THIS THREAD SO MY EXPLANATIONS ARE NOT ACCURATE)... so essentially all you need to know here is that if you are going to show the thing on a TV you can select upper or lower field to go first for interlaced, otherwise choose "None" for full frames on computer screens...
 
Sadly, I still don't have any MPEG-4 options.

Also, it installed an entirely new program. I was using Vegas Movie Studio 6.0, apperantly, not Vegas :-/ It was trial.

But I've got a Vegas serial because my school owns it and they lease it out to students.

Anyway, there are more options than there were before but still not MPEG-4 (I do have MP4, but isn't that for iPod and something different?)
 
if you have a serial for the ful product and you update to the latest version with the link you'll have a Main Concept AVC/AAC (*.mp4) option, that is MPEG-4... also you might allready have Mpeg-4 under Quicktime (*.mov) so you could try going into the Custom settings for Quicktime and choose Mpeg-4 Video in the Video tab under Video Format:
 
Oh, okay, yeah, that I do have, sorry. I thought it was something else.

I'll give that a shot.

I did find a temporary solution though, that was to export uncompressed and import into Windows Movie Maker, then export from there. I hate Windows but hey, it got it done :P

Thanks tons for your help :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top