Good morning everyone,
I think it's time for me familiarize myself with bit rate and other settings that define the quality of a rendered video.
I don't want to trust my observing skills too much, because first I am not a professional, I have little experience, and no education at all about video editing, and second because I've been deceived countless times on thinking I was doing a clean job with video and also with audio. But let's talk only about video, not audio on this thread.
So I prefer to rely on others, let say not on any others, not on what people generally do, but rely on settings and figures true artists, (not your down the street old family tapes digital converter shop owner) rely on to have a perfect, uncompromising bit rate and settings. yet not absurdly high to the point a rendered file is 10 times the size of another and even the most trained eye can't tell the smallest difference between the two even after trying hard.
I'd like to have 720p and 1080p ready to use figures and settings I can rely on for Vegas most recommended codecs and also for xvid , h264 , and maybe h265 codecs, these three, I understand, have the advantage of having a smaller size but are hard or even impossible to preview in Vegas.