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Looking to get the best video quality possible with the new YouTube widescreen player? How about encoding settings that will make your videos look phenomenal in High Definition? This tutorial will show you how to use Sony Vegas and the Divx codec to optimize your video encoding settings and make them totally rock!
If you’re the type that doesn’t like reading, feel free to watch the full tutorial video below. Or, if you’re more into reading with big pictures that make things really simple, you can read the full article here.
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You will need two things for this tutorial:
- Sony Vegas Video Editing Software (Link to Sony’s site with Free Trial)
- The Divx Media Codec (Link to the official Divx site with Free Download Link)
Download and install both Sony Vegas as well as the Divx Codec.
Start Sony Vegas and click:
File>New…
This will open the New Project Window.
Settings:
Template: HDV 720-30p (1280×720, 29.970 fps)
Field Order: None (Progressive Scan)
Full-Resolution Rendering Quality: Best
Motion Blur Type: Gaussian
Deinterlace Method: None
Import your video files and edit them as necessary.
When finished editing click:
File>Render As…
This will open the Render As Window:
Settings:
File Name: (Enter Your File Name)
Save As Type: Video For Windows (*.avi)
Template: HDV 720-30p intermediate
Click the button labeled “Custom”
This will open the Custom Template – Video For Windows Window
Select the “Project” Tab
Settings:
Video Rendering Quality: Best
Select the “Video” Tab
Settings:
Frame Size: HDV 720 (1,280×720)
Frame Rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
Field Order: None (Progressive Scan)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0000
Video Format: Divx 6.8.5 Codec (1 Logical CPU)
Click the button labeled “Configure” next to the Video Format box.
This will open the Divx Codec Properties Box
Ensure the “Main” tab is selected.
Settings:
Certification Profile: 720HD Profile (Make sure this is selected! If it isn’t the video will not render.)
Encoding Presets: Slide the selection bar over until the number reads “8″.
Rate Control: 1-Pass
Bitrate: 3000 kbps
Click the “Ok” button.
Select the “Audio” Tab
Settings:
Audio Format: Mpeg Layer-3
Attributes: 56 kBit/s 24,000 Hz, Stereo
Click the text next to the “Template” box at the top of the window.
Rename the Template “Youtube HQ” or something else that you will remember.
Click the “Save” button to the right of the text box.
Click “Ok” at the bottom of the window.
Click “Save” to render your video.
Upload your video to Youtube and enjoy your new Widescreen High Definition Masterpiece!
Note: If you would like to be able to view your video in High Definition on youtube, you can do so by adding “&fmt=22″ to the end of your video urls.
So, instead of your video url being:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clqQtNDF5ho
It would be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clqQtNDF5ho&fmt=22
June 1st, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Great Explanation, i already knew, but this helped me explain to my friend how to get it to work.
Thank You very much Matt.
June 17th, 2009 at 11:03 am
You saved me a lot of time researching for my class assignment. I am in your debt forever!
September 1st, 2009 at 8:32 am
Does this work on Vegas Movie Studio Platinum
September 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
It takes ages to save.I waited about 30 minutes and it was only 7% and it was a 3 min video:|
September 14th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
How old is your computer, how much ram does it have etc?
September 18th, 2009 at 11:20 am
vERY COOL – i’M RENDERING NOW – i WASN’T ABLE TO (OOPS CAPS LOCK) set the audio to the MPEG Layer 3, So I am leaving it uncompressed – it is a music video and YouTube will do it’s compression anyways. Will let you know how it comes out – thanks Matt. I’m wondering if I should use the DiVX for when I render for a Blu-Ray disc too ???? hmmmm.
September 18th, 2009 at 11:34 am
The video looks kickbutt – thanks!
December 27th, 2009 at 2:34 am
When I select MPEG Layer-3 it says that there are no supported formats. =[ This is Sony Vegas 9. Any way I can resolve this problem? Or is there an alternative to MPEG Layer-3? Cause when I leave it as PCM uncompressed the video lags behind the audio…
December 30th, 2009 at 1:13 am
I ran into that problem with both Vegas 7 and 9. I was unfortunately unable to come across an solution, but I do have several workarounds to the problem that I use now.
If you’re still really wanting to use Divx for your uploads I recommend downloading “Super” video encoder. You can get it here: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html Then, when rendering videos in Sony Vegas, I would just render them in Uncompressed AVI (warning this results in massive file sizes but you can delete the large file after converting). Then open Super and convert the video to Divx. This will let you convert them to Divx and have the audio as MP3. I rendered in this way for about a year.
Your other alternative, and this doesn’t have nearly as many steps, is to select .MP4 as your video rendering format and render the video out in h.264. I think this tutorial on YouTube should help you out with that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl_BM67VuRw
I have been using h.264 for a while now and I can get great looking 1080p video with a relatively small filesize.
Hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions.
Matt
January 6th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Nice job Matt, thanks very informative…
I am uploading now something.. on HD
well it is still uploading the 700 MB AVI. If you wanna see my channel it’s still the start just got a hold of the community TV camcorder Porn anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/user/nigunimproductions this my youtube but please weight few days I can get it in order an kicking.
January 7th, 2010 at 6:47 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsssVHraJc&autoplay
January 7th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
I followed your steps but get an error when I try to save the file and it’s rendering. Something like “selected codec does not support certain render settings”
Going thru your walkthru and video, the only issue I see is that you have a template named HDV 720-30p Intermediate (?) I don’t have the “intermediate” part
Any help?
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:38 am
Omg thank you so much!! I hope it still works on 9.0