Vegas Rendering Suggestions

Slywolf15 · Post by **Slywolf15** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:44 pm

Well i've been making amv's for about a year now and have always rendered them as mpeg's without thinking much of the quality. Well the most recent amv I have been working on I have put quite a lot of work into with quite a few effects and so I wanted to ask your opinions on which would be the best video settings to render the amv with. Any help would be appreciated and thank you.

Rapture** · Post by Rapture** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:16 am

Lossless (Huffyuv or Lagarith)+Your project settings --> AviSynth+VdubMod or Zarx264GUI.

Slywolf15 · Post by **Slywolf15** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:15 am

Rapture** wrote:Lossless (Huffyuv or Lagarith)+Your project settings --> AviSynth+VdubMod or Zarx264GUI.

I have already taken care of the subs. So I don't think i'd need AVISynth. Anyway what is Huffyuv since a lot of the programs you have reccomended i'm not very familiar with.

Slywolf15 · Post by **Slywolf15** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:36 am

Actually it'd be great if you explained to me what AVISynth and Vdubmod do also since it seems my general impression of these programs was incorrect. Btw sorry about the double post but I couldn't edit my previous post.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:38 am

huffyuv and lagarith are codecs... compressions... more particularly lossless codecs (so you shouldn't lose quality but you will still get some compression)

you choose "avi" as your container and you can go into "custom settings" to set the compression/codec... if you choose huffyuv or lagarith it will make a large file but it will not lose any quality.

and after you have exported lossless you take that lossless copy clean up more with avisynth if you need to and use Virtualdub Mod to compress it further to XVID (which is another codec) in an avi container.

if you don't want to do that you can use Zarxgui and avisynth (and yes you need to use avisynth with it) and compress it to h.264 in an mp4 container (h.264 is another codec/compression) this will achieve higher quality with a smaller file size than XVID..

I have already taken care of the subs. So I don't think i'd need AVISynth.

sorry but this statement almost makes me laugh, avisynth isn't solely for "taking care of subs" its for cleaning up your footage as well, and cropping off black edges and fixing the aspect ratio (if you have an AR problem)

you can get anywhere from drastic results:

to subtle results:

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:40 am

AVIsynth: What it is, how it works and why you need to use it

VirtualDubMod: What it is, how it works and why you need to use it too!

Slywolf15 · Post by **Slywolf15** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:45 am

JaddziaDax wrote:AVIsynth: What it is, how it works and why you need to use it

VirtualDubMod: What it is, how it works and why you need to use it too!

Yeah I feel like an idiot lol. It's because the majority of people I talked to had only used it for subs and I never ventured out and used the program myself. So I had no understanding of it. But thank you very much for your help.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:56 am

apparently its not just for filtering you can edit with it too O.o

no stress, gotta learn somehow?
plus i was writing all that before i saw your second post