Hey guys its Andrew Esquivel here back with another tutorial and today I'm gonna show
you guy how to render your videos in Sony Vegas pro 12 using the H.264 codec.
Now first off Sony Vegas does not come with the capability to render your videos in this
codec by default.
You will have to download something to make it do that.
so what we're gonna do is first we're gonna go to a website and yes the website link is
in the description so check that out and if your using 32 bit Sony Vegas you're gonna
be using the first link here and if your using 64 you'll notice this one has the number 64
in it, that's the 64 bit version of this codec that you're gonna download and install.
Now once its downloaded and installed you start up Sony Vegas make sure that Sony Vegas
is not running while your installing it because it has to load all the stuff into its system
files once you start the program.
Okay so now that you have all the software installed rendering your video in H.264 doesn't
require anything particularly special at this point so just go to file and then render as,
as you always would.
Next search for the drop down menu that says "video for windows AVI" select any one of
them and click customize template, now in video format there's a drop down menu that
you're gonna click on and these are your codecs down here we have the one that we just installed
of which include H.264 as well as a few other ones that came with that package.
You're gonna go ahead and select that.
Now, set your frame size which is your resolution that your rendering in to whatever it is you
want to render in for me it'd be 1920x1080 and my videos are always rendered 60 frames
per second so we would select the closest thing to that which is this one right here,
59.940 now obviously that's gonna be different for everyone depending on what exactly it
is that your trying to accomplish with your rendering.
so if your videos are in 30 frames per second just chose the closest thing to 30 but over
here in field order I prefer progressive instead of interlaced so we're gonna chose that and
pixel aspect ratio I keep at 1, because that's what works for me with my footage that i make.
As for this over here I like to do interleave every frame and it's not necessary for you
to do that but i like to.
Now in order to configure the codec itself you click this button here that ironically
says configure.
And it brings up this menu here.
Now there's a lot of options here but keep in mind there's not too much that you have
to get right.
If you want to know what any of these do hold your curser over their drop down menu and
it tells you what it does.
I'm gonna go over the essential ones that you need to know.
preset right here determines how fast it renders, the faster is renders the less compression
its going to use but it should always come out around the same quality.
And over here we have zero latency, it's very important that you have this checked in most
cases because if you don't you audio and your video can become out of sync after all its
rendering is done and that'd be a bummer you don't want your audio and your video out of
sync.
For rate control we're gonna chose out of all this to single pass bit rate based ABR
and we're gonna set it to 6000.
Next we have down here your types of codecs of 264 you can use and you'll notice there's
a number of them you can chose but the one your probably want is H.264, don't worry about
virtual dub hack and all these other settings just keep them as they are.
Basically just match up what i have here and you should be golden.
so we're gonna click okay, and now what your gonna do since you've set this all exactly
the way you want it, go to your template here and save it as something.
I would suggest just save it as h.264 I've already got one set, I'm just gonna call it
V2; click save obviously you can mess with your audio here too in any which way you want.
And just click okay, and now you've got it set.
A little tip since you're gonna be using this a lot, or so i assume, click the little yellow
star and when you do that when you click show favorites only its already there, it's easy
to find.
So, now that you've got all that configured you just select it and click render.
Wha-La!
Your video is now rendering.
Okay so even though this is a different video clip in the video editor than we were looking
at before I happen to have rendered the videos that were seeing the editor previously in
2 different formats.
One in Windows media video and the other in the AVI H.264 codec.
Now the first thing we're going to notice is that the quality is going to be the exact
same, however, windows media video is 730MB while the H.264 is 326MB, also it took less
time to render the h.264 video than the Windows Media video.
All around, this codec is much better.
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