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manoliswec

hi from athens greece. glad to be here! i'm manolis and i want to ask a question about sony vegas. i'm just started to learn it in order to make a video from some footage i filmed at wec 2011 greece, meteora. a friend gave me his camera and i was amateur enough to switch from 16:9 to 4:3. still the main problem is the lack of quality compared with the pre-render files. the camera is old (i believe 640*480 with cassete if that helps) so its just above the watchable limits of today's video. so i cant afford any further quality loss. i'm using sony vegas 10 pro, the pre-render files are in mpg format and i rendered them to .avi. i tried .avi 720 60fps but the result was (i believe) the same with ntsc dv i finaly use to render. can you suggest a better setting? Still i wanted to make a video either way so i made a demo from just one point of the course in order to show the results to people who can help (and ofcourse just for the kicks of it!) here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLoDycsdDLg
thanks for reading
 
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James

James

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I've only ever used Adobe Premiere so not sure how the Sony Vegas workflow differs. If I understand you correctly you're dropping the original files into the Vegas timeline and then exporting them in .avi 720 60fps?

I see one thing right away and that's the 60fps, only export in 60fps if the original footage was shot in 60fps (which I'm guessing it wasn't). Also youtube prefers a .mp4 container with the H.264 codec. More on that here. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171
 
tacomcnasty

tacomcnasty

i use sony vegas. go to youtube and type in how to get the best video quality with sony vegas and follow the video. you can save the render template and just use it everytime viola perfect quality every time
 
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