If you want to learn the best high quality export and render settings for your YouTube
videos, then you've come to the right place.
I'm Pete from the Gaming Careers YouTube channel where we have videos explaining everything
you need to do to grow your passion into your profession and today I am going to be talking
through the best render and export settings for Vegas 14.
Before I get started, I just wanted to mention that the software I'll be using for this tutorial
is Vegas Pro 14.
It doesn't really matter if you're using an older version of Sony Vegas as the render
settings haven't changed that much.
If however you are looking for render settings for Adobe Premiere Pro, I've got another video
that I'll link up here in the top corner, so check that out if that's the software you're
using.
With that being said, let's get into it.
So here you can see we're in Vegas Pro 14, and I've got some test footage down here which
is basically some Overwatch gameplay, some commentary over the top and an Intro and an
Outro.
The kind of thing that I'd imagine you guys are going to be rendering out of Vegas.
So first thing you want to make sure is that you have the full timeline selected of everything
that you want to render.
Then you go up to File, and then down to Render As and it will open up this new box.
So the first thing you want to do is select the right output format, we're looking for
MainConcept AVC/AAC, this one here.
So if we click the little down arrow next to that it's going to give you a lot of different
templates really.
It doesn't really matter which one you choose because we are going to be editing it anyway
but we might as well start with something quite close so if we select this Internet
HD 1080p and then click Customise Template.
This is going to open up some more advanced settings which we are going to play with now.
You want to make sure the Include Video is check marked obviously otherwise you are going
to get a black video which won't be very good for your YouTube audience.
Frame Size, this is the actual size of your footage so hopefully you've been recording
in 1920x1080 as that really is the standard now for YouTube gaming videos, obviously if
you've had hardware limitations and you've had to record it in something like 720p, you
can change it here if that's what your source footage was.
You really want to be rendering out your video in the same resolution as the source footage
was recorded.
But hopefully you've got something recorded in 1920x1080.
Make sure that this box is unchecked because you don't want the source to adjust the frame
size at all.
On profile you want to select high.
Now frame-rate, again this is similar to resolution you want to be choosing the same framerate
that you recording your actual source footage at.
Mine's recorded at 60 but sometimes you might not have the option for 60 but you can just
type it in anyway so I'm just going to delete that, type in 60, as that is what I want to
be rendering at.
I really do recommend as well now that you upload your footage at 60fps and 1080p as
YouTube does support it and it gives you a slightly higher bitrate for 60fps so it does
look better and especially for first person shooter games it's going to look a lot more
fluid.
But obviously again if you have hardware limitations and you had to record at 30 then set your
framerate here to 30.
Again, untick this "allow source to adjust frame rate".
You want to make sure your field order is left here at None (progressive scan) and your
pixel aspect ratio is set to 1 otherwise it's going to look really strange and stretched.
Now number of reference frames, I've seen some people recommend upping this but I have
noticed any difference.
If you really do feel paranoid about your quality you can change this to 14 and tick
"use deblocking filter" but I haven't noticed any difference at all so I've left it at 2
here.
Bitrate settings, now this is where you need to concentrate a bit more.
Firstly you want to select 2-pass and I'll just explain why.
If you use a 2-pass system, the first pass is just analyzing your project and the second
pass actually executes the compression, so 2-pass does yield a better result especially
for gaming video where there's a lot of high motion, it will really benefit from the second
pass.
But it does take significantly longer than if you just use a 1-pass system.
So if you want the best quality you want to tick 2-pass here.
Now maximum and average bitrates.
I see a lot of videos on YouTube recommending people put in 50,000,000 here on a target
bitrate and it really does surprise me because YouTube compresses the sh*t out of every video
that you upload, so once you go past a certain amount you aren't going to be able to see
any difference in quality as YouTube will compress it anyway.
Save yourself some time, I've done the testing, let's set these to 16 for the maximum, 16,000,000.
And 14 for the average, any higher than that you're going to get such negligible differences
in quality and it's going to really increase your render time.
So the people that are recommending doing 50 or 100 here are just honestly wasting so
much time and processing power.
Number of slices can be left at default on 4.
Now you might have an option here for encode mode which allows you to, if you have an NVIDIA
graphics card you'll be able to use some special technology to decrease you're render time
and offload some of that task to the video card.
I've had quite a lot of issues with previous versions of Sony Vegas and this version of
Vegas Pro so I've actually disabled it completely, but if you're going to be rendering out a
lot of different videos which I hope you are for your YouTube channel and you don't have
any issues by selecting one of the technologies here such as CUDA then I do recommend using
it as it will cut down on your render time.
But if you are having any issues, make sure you are selecting the CPU only for your render
method.
Enable progressive download you want to keep that ticked and then we'll go across to the
Audio tab.
Obviously again, make sure you're including your audio otherwise you'll have a video with
no audio.
You want to leave sample rate at 48,000 and bitrate for the audio I wouldn't recommend
going any lower than 192 just because it will start to sound a bit sh*t.
I actually do go up to 320 but that's probably unnecessary, anything between 192 and 320
is absolutely fine.
System doesn't have anything that we can edit anyway and then finally on Project there's
only 1 setting that we need to change which is Video rendering quality, we want to up
that to Best.
Now, we don't want to have to do this every single time we render a video so we can actually
save this as a template.
I am going to call mine "YouTube best quality 1080p 60fps".
Click the little save icon and then I can now select that every time I want to render,
so we press OK.
You'll see here, our newly created template.
I recommend clicking the little star there because then you can find it easily when you're
rendering each time.
Last thing to do is to browse and name our project so if you want to save it wherever
you want, I'm just going to save this in my documents with the name TestProject.
Click save.
Render loop region only is if you have your region selected, I'm going to render the whole
project anyway as it's the same as my loop region so I can uncheck that.
Last thing to do is to click Render and your render should start.
And that is it!
Once your render has finished, upload it to YouTube, enter in your description, your titles,
your tags, all that good stuff, upload your custom thumbnail and then prepare for the
sudden influx of comments from people telling you how great your new video looks.
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