best settings for rendering mp4

pearley wrote on 10/12/2010, 9:44 AM

can somebody share with me the best settings to use when rendering mp4 files on Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0?

i'm not an expert (yet..lol) on rendering and would like to know what seems to work best for creating mp4 files that will be streamed over the internet using the S3 & Cloudfront solution by Amazon.

the files that i've rendered thus far are extremely large and was wondering what settings i should be using so that the file sizes are reduced drastically without degrading video quality.

here are my current settings:
project properties: video template=NTSC DV (720x40, 29.970fps), rendering quality=Best, Deinterlace method=Interpolate fields; audio master bus mode=stereo, sample rate=44,100, bit depth=16, resample=best

under make movie:
format=Sony AVC, advanced settings: video rendering quality=best, video format=AVC, Frame size=custom (width 480, height 360), profile=Baseline, entropy coding=CABAC, frame rate=29.970 (NTSC), field order=none(progressive), Pixel aspect=1.0,bit rate=10,000,000; audio format=AAC, sample rate=48,000, bit rate=128,000, format=MP4

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. I'm hoping to get these file sizes reduced dramatically, and allow them to be easily & quickly streamed.

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 10/12/2010, 9:55 AM

First thing I notice is that for 480x360 output, 10Mbs bitrate is overkill - bigtime.
You should be able to get away with 3 or 4Mbs just fine, probably even less. This will reduce your file size dramatically (bitrate x time = file size).

You will want to run your finished file through MP4 Fast Start to set the flags correctly for streaming.

Personally, I use Handbrake almost exclusively for web video.

pearley wrote on 10/12/2010, 10:47 AM

thank you. i'll try that.