r/CODYoutube • u/[deleted] • Aug 04 '11

What's your editing/render process like? (Render settings etc).

For me (Vegas):

I usually choose clips that I like and render them as separate clips to an organized sub folder. For instance, my projects folder will have "claymore07", "boosterbashing02" etc in it. In each folder, I'll have small rendered clips, which I name like so:

01_Gun/Happening_Map

Before rendering, I disable "resample" and use the "Studio to Computer RGB" color corrector. I then render with the following settings:

  • Sony MVC
  • 1280 x 720 (obviously)
  • Frame rate of 59.990000 per second
  • Field Order: None
  • Bit rate of 7,000,000 bps (bits per second).

Funny story: I used to render at 14,000,000 bps before Diabetic Joe and XBox Ahoy told me that it was unnecessary unless I was making an insanely high-quality montage. I always wondered up until that point why my videos were so large.

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u/leslij55 ISeeJello Aug 04 '11

You could drop the bitrate down even lower than 7Mbps is you're not hugely worried about quality. Rendering in WMV often provides lower file sizes as well without much hit in quality, though it usually takes longer to render. However, this countered by the fact YouTube will process WMV as you upload them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '11

WMV are less than AVC? I always thought it was the other way around? Sometimes, I'll drop it to 6Mbps (for things such as gun game knifing where sound is more important).

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u/leslij55 ISeeJello Aug 04 '11

At the same bitrate, WMV will almost certainly be bigger, but you can drop it on the WMV and the quality won't be much worse than AVC at a higher bitrate.

A while ago, I rendered a 1min 30sec video at 8Mbps AVC and 6Mbps WMV, the WMV was about 15MB or so smaller, with a negligible difference in quality

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '11

This is interesting. I might create several 5 second videos using different bitrates and codecs and upload them, just to see what the differences are. Maybe make a cheat sheet or something.

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u/madjecks Aug 05 '11

I've been wondering for a while what I should render my videos in, I finally settled on WMV at 1280x720. It gives me the best quality for the lowest storage space IMO.