Sony Vegas Tutorial: How to Get Widescreen/HD Quality w/ YT and Batch Render Video

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i need help i did all the things you did here for the first part of the video and then when i go to render it it goes really fast and then when i open the file it is just a black screen and it last like 10 seconds. if you can please help me please email me.

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Sony Vegas Tutorial: How to Get Widescreen/HD Quality w/ YT and Batch Render

Hey everybody skorch82 here. And I am bringing you guys a small tutorial on how to use Sony Vegas 8 Pro to achieve the HD settings for YouTube’s new HD support in their player. I am also going to show you how to do batch rendering with Sony Vegas, which can be a very, very useful tool when creating large amounts of videos. So first things first, what we’re going to do is make sure that out Project setting are going to output the proper format for YouTube HD. So what we are going to do first is go up to the File Menu and then go to the Project, Properties and you can see under Template, right now it’s NTSC DV 720 x 480 at 29.97 fps. You select the Drop down box and then go down to HDV 30 p or 25 p or 24 depending on how many frame per second your region would require so we’re going to select 30 p which is for NTSC and you can see that the width and the height changed to 1280 x 720 which is the closes to the new size of the HD player. So, once we are done with that, you should not need to change anything else so just go ahead and hit OK and you can see now our preview Window has changed to fit the size of the new format which is a 16:9 aspect ratio. So now what we’re going to want to do but we’ve got our project set up to output the video properly. We’re going to make sure that were in the Project Media bin here and then select the Import Media button and I am going to use a couple of clips from my follow up three videos. This one here usually comes in to few so I am just going to use—we’re just going to use a few parts. I’m going to select these and I am going to hit open. You can see now our Media bin has three separate clips. I’m going to drag the first one down under the timeline here and then stretch them out by dragging these bars on the sides where the track listing is so you can see a little better. And then at this point, if you had any like video editing or you know, cuts to make, if you had any filters to add for you know, FX like for instance I usually have to add some brightness to my videos because as you can see, this showed up a little dark so if I drop a filter on here, you know, you can see the brightness increases. And let’s say the clip was a little too long and I needed to cut some section off so I can drag the end here. I can split it if I need two clips, insert transitions, you know, what have you, is there anything that you could possibly do to your video, you would do that here. But let’s say, for just the sake of ease, we’re all done editing here so what I am going to want to do is set up my render profile so that I can get the settings that will best reflect youtube’s new HD requirements. And the first thing you may notice is if you are looking in the preview Window, you can see these black bars along the side of the video. So these black bars are actually here because the source video is not true, 1280 x 720 so it’s maintaining the aspect ration on the preview. So to get rid of those black bars, what you can do is come over here on the edge of the clip, there is an icon called the Event Pan and Crop. If you click on that it will bring up this time Editor box here where you can go to the source and say stretch to Fill frame, make sure that says yes and then where it says Maintain aspect ratio, if you select no, you can see that it will break the 16:9 aspect ration and then you know stretch to Fill the frame. So, once we are done there, we’ll go ahead and close. Go up to the File menu and then select Render As and this is where you would actually choose your file name and then your type and you template. So, I found that the easiest results—it will take a little longer but they give you the best results are Windows Media Video. So in order to use that when you need, make sure you have the Windows Media Video Codec installed on you PC. So were’ going to go ahead and select that one and I have already created a template for that so what I am going to do is I am just going to select the 6 Mbps HD 720 30p and then to edit that, we’re going to select the Custom button here. It will bring up the Dialog box where it allows us to change the description and change the quality out of your video Bitrate and all that stuff. You can go ahead and leave the Video rendering quality as Good. Best will give you slightly better video but if you are doing it on YouTube, Good is good enough, you are not going to notice anything much different. And it will take less time. So go ahead and select that. You can check on the audio, you should not need to change anything, just make sure it says include audio, the mode is CBR, Format is Windows Media Audio 9.2 and attributes under 192 kbps. Under Video, you should not need to change anything here, you just want to make sure that if you have to edit your Frame rate or anything like that, you can change your image size but out target is 1280 x 720, so we’re going to keep that and then you can change your video’s smoothness, actually up 9 to about 95. So make that change and then under Bitrate, make sure that everything is unchecked except for Internet LAN and then since YouTube does not really support much over 2200 kbps, I am just going to go a little bit over and save 3 Mbps and then once you are done, this should be the last, this is only for, if you are authoring your video which most people don’t need to do. If you come up to the Template Description here and then say—enter a description for whatever your profile is going to be named and then hit this save icon and that will save your template name. So then, you can see it shows up onto template dialog box and then we can go ahead and select that. So, we’re just going to call it untitled for now but if we say Save, it will bring up the rendering box with the time left and maybe amount of time that it has taken and then you can see the preview as it’s going through a render. But I also said that were going to show you how to do batch rendering. So let’s just say, for the sake of argument that you had several clips that you wanted to render in succession but you did not want to wait for 45 minutes or so that it would take to render a video of this size and quality. So you can use what we call batch rendering to render multiple clips and sequence at the same time. So, what you are going to do is go back to your Project Media bin and you can see we have some more clips here that we need to insert but we’ve already got one down here that we‘ve finished editing. So what we need to do is create a region out of this. So you’re just going to double click in this selection area up here and select the entire timeline. Hit the R key and it will create a region and you can give it a name; call it test 1. So now, what you want to do is drag the next clip down to the end of the timeline and this one is actually unfortunately just a small little bit. We can stretch it out to say, you know, repeat it or something like that. Just you will be able to see. You will do your editing and you filter adding and anything you want to do to make the clip viewable and then select everything on the timeline to create a region out of that, press R again. It will make another region between the last one and the end of the timeline. We’ll give it another name. And then finally we’re going to do that last thing for the final clip. So, you are going to do any editing, so you need to do, let’s add the Brightness filter again, select the Project Media. Let’s say this one run too long so I am going to drag the end in a little bit, select everything on the timeline and hit R, final time and if we scroll out with the mouse wheel, you can see our entire timeline now has three clips with three regions. So our desired output would be three separate videos that came from one project with one timeline and three clips. So once that is all done and taken care off, go up to the Tools menu here and then go down to Scripting and Batch Rendering. So Batch rendering is a script that comes installed with Sony Vegas. So if you go to Computer, select our spot to stick that. We’ll just eave them as untitled for now and then you need to select what rendering profile you want to use and since we used Windows Media Video, we’re going to expand that there and then you could see our template names. We created this one here so I am going to pick that and then the last thing you want to do is make sure to select render regions down here in this radio button and then say okay and then you can see the first clip is now rendering and you get the dialog box to say you know, how much time is left and if you look down here, it says rendering untitled Window Media Video 9 blah, blah, blah and then there is a little bracket here. Excuse me, Start menu. There is little bracket down here that says [0] That is the offset into whichever region is being rendered. So when you are finally done, you’ll have a collection of videos numbered zero, one, two. So for our three clips, that will be our outlet. So if you have multiple clips to render, you can do this and then go do something else while the time is spent rendering your videos and that will make it a lot easier to render a lot of videos and a lot of clips all at one time and saves you a lot of time in the long run. So with that, that concludes our tutorial and I thank you all for watching and I hope it was informative. Don’t hesitate to send me a message or a comment if you have any further questions and I will do my best to help you out. See you all later.

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Hey everybody skorch82 here. And I am bringing you guys a small tutorial on how to use Sony Vegas 8 Pro to achieve the HD settings for YouTube’s new HD support in their player. I am also going to show you how to do batch rendering with Sony Vegas, which can be a very, very useful tool when creating large amounts of videos.

So first things first, what we’re going to do is make sure that out Project setting are going to output the proper format for YouTube HD. So what we are going to do first is go up to the File Menu and then go to the Project, Properties and you can see under Template, right now it’s NTSC DV 720 x 480 at 29.97 fps. You select the Drop down box and then go down to HDV 30 p or 25 p or 24 depending on how many frame per second your region would require so we’re going to select 30 p which is for NTSC and you can see that the width and the height changed to 1280 x 720 which is the closes to the new size of the HD player. So, once we are done with that, you should not need to change anything else so just go ahead and hit OK and you can see now our preview Window has changed to fit the size of the new format which is a 16:9 aspect ratio.

So now what we’re going to want to do but we’ve got our project set up to output the video properly. We’re going to make sure that were in the Project Media bin here and then select the Import Media button and I am going to use a couple of clips from my follow up three videos. This one here usually comes in to few so I am just going to use—we’re just going to use a few parts. I’m going to select these and I am going to hit open. You can see now our Media bin has three separate clips. I’m going to drag the first one down under the timeline here and then stretch them out by dragging these bars on the sides where the track listing is so you can see a little better. And then at this point, if you had any like video editing or you know, cuts to make, if you had any filters to add for you know, FX like for instance I usually have to add some brightness to my videos because as you can see, this showed up a little dark so if I drop a filter on here, you know, you can see the brightness increases. And let’s say the clip was a little too long and I needed to cut some section off so I can drag the end here. I can split it if I need two clips, insert transitions, you know, what have you, is there anything that you could possibly do to your video, you would do that here.

But let’s say, for just the sake of ease, we’re all done editing here so what I am going to want to do is set up my render profile so that I can get the settings that will best reflect youtube’s new HD requirements. And the first thing you may notice is if you are looking in the preview Window, you can see these black bars along the side of the video. So these black bars are actually here because the source video is not true, 1280 x 720 so it’s maintaining the aspect ration on the preview. So to get rid of those black bars, what you can do is come over here on the edge of the clip, there is an icon called the Event Pan and Crop. If you click on that it will bring up this time Editor box here where you can go to the source and say stretch to Fill frame, make sure that says yes and then where it says Maintain aspect ratio, if you select no, you can see that it will break the 16:9 aspect ration and then you know stretch to Fill the frame.

So, once we are done there, we’ll go ahead and close. Go up to the File menu and then select Render As and this is where you would actually choose your file name and then your type and you template. So, I found that the easiest results—it will take a little longer but they give you the best results are Windows Media Video. So in order to use that when you need, make sure you have the Windows Media Video Codec installed on you PC.

So were’ going to go ahead and select that one and I have already created a template for that so what I am going to do is I am just going to select the 6 Mbps HD 720 30p and then to edit that, we’re going to select the Custom button here. It will bring up the Dialog box where it allows us to change the description and change the quality out of your video Bitrate and all that stuff.

You can go ahead and leave the Video rendering quality as Good. Best will give you slightly better video but if you are doing it on YouTube, Good is good enough, you are not going to notice anything much different. And it will take less time. So go ahead and select that. You can check on the audio, you should not need to change anything, just make sure it says include audio, the mode is CBR, Format is Windows Media Audio 9.2 and attributes under 192 kbps.

Under Video, you should not need to change anything here, you just want to make sure that if you have to edit your Frame rate or anything like that, you can change your image size but out target is 1280 x 720, so we’re going to keep that and then you can change your video’s smoothness, actually up 9 to about 95. So make that change and then under Bitrate, make sure that everything is unchecked except for Internet LAN and then since YouTube does not really support much over 2200 kbps, I am just going to go a little bit over and save 3 Mbps and then once you are done, this should be the last, this is only for, if you are authoring your video which most people don’t need to do. If you come up to the Template Description here and then say—enter a description for whatever your profile is going to be named and then hit this save icon and that will save your template name. So then, you can see it shows up onto template dialog box and then we can go ahead and select that.

So, we’re just going to call it untitled for now but if we say Save, it will bring up the rendering box with the time left and maybe amount of time that it has taken and then you can see the preview as it’s going through a render.

But I also said that were going to show you how to do batch rendering. So let’s just say, for the sake of argument that you had several clips that you wanted to render in succession but you did not want to wait for 45 minutes or so that it would take to render a video of this size and quality. So you can use what we call batch rendering to render multiple clips and sequence at the same time.

So, what you are going to do is go back to your Project Media bin and you can see we have some more clips here that we need to insert but we’ve already got one down here that we‘ve finished editing. So what we need to do is create a region out of this. So you’re just going to double click in this selection area up here and select the entire timeline. Hit the R key and it will create a region and you can give it a name; call it test 1.

So now, what you want to do is drag the next clip down to the end of the timeline and this one is actually unfortunately just a small little bit. We can stretch it out to say, you know, repeat it or something like that. Just you will be able to see. You will do your editing and you filter adding and anything you want to do to make the clip viewable and then select everything on the timeline to create a region out of that, press R again. It will make another region between the last one and the end of the timeline. We’ll give it another name. And then finally we’re going to do that last thing for the final clip.

So, you are going to do any editing, so you need to do, let’s add the Brightness filter again, select the Project Media. Let’s say this one run too long so I am going to drag the end in a little bit, select everything on the timeline and hit R, final time and if we scroll out with the mouse wheel, you can see our entire timeline now has three clips with three regions. So our desired output would be three separate videos that came from one project with one timeline and three clips.

So once that is all done and taken care off, go up to the Tools menu here and then go down to Scripting and Batch Rendering. So Batch rendering is a script that comes installed with Sony Vegas. So if you go to Computer, select our spot to stick that. We’ll just eave them as untitled for now and then you need to select what rendering profile you want to use and since we used Windows Media Video, we’re going to expand that there and then you could see our template names. We created this one here so I am going to pick that and then the last thing you want to do is make sure to select render regions down here in this radio button and then say okay and then you can see the first clip is now rendering and you get the dialog box to say you know, how much time is left and if you look down here, it says rendering untitled Window Media Video 9 blah, blah, blah and then there is a little bracket here. Excuse me, Start menu. There is little bracket down here that says [0] That is the offset into whichever region is being rendered. So when you are finally done, you’ll have a collection of videos numbered zero, one, two. So for our three clips, that will be our outlet. So if you have multiple clips to render, you can do this and then go do something else while the time is spent rendering your videos and that will make it a lot easier to render a lot of videos and a lot of clips all at one time and saves you a lot of time in the long run.

So with that, that concludes our tutorial and I thank you all for watching and I hope it was informative. Don’t hesitate to send me a message or a comment if you have any further questions and I will do my best to help you out. See you all later.

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