Render 1600x1200 video for YouTube

Slipperhero wrote on 10/2/2012, 6:08 AM
Hi there,

I'm new to Vegas Pro 12, and am having some render issues with video captured with Fraps at 1600x1200.
My goal is to render out the highest possible quality and resolution in order to upload the video on YouTube.
The issues i'm having are that with all of the render settings i'm using, i seem to always get a black border all around the video when viewing it in fullscreen once uploaded to YouTube. When viewing the same video in MediaPlayer or VLC the black borders are not there.
Could somebody give me an example of the optimal render settings i should be using, in order to fill as much of the screen with the actual video, and restricting the black borders to a minimum.

Comments

rraud wrote on 10/2/2012, 9:10 AM
Vegas to YouTube... This has been covered in-depth. Thanks to MusicVid, Jazzy and others for an excellent tutorial. "Good, Better, Best" The preferred way (Good) of many on this forum is rendering an intermediary (MOV) DNxHD in Vegas, then re-render a Mpg-4 in 'Handbrake' for YouTube or Vimeo. (Vimeo looks a little better in my opinion) See the below tutorial.

Byron K wrote on 10/2/2012, 1:12 PM
From my layman's perspective, Youtube downsizes the 1600x1200 video to fit into 1920x1080 (16:9) aspect ratio and is probably not down sizing the odd format correctly.

To get the best resolution that will fit on Youtube, export your video to 1620x1080 using the method suggested by rraud and upload.

You will have pillars on each side of the video unless you crop your video to 1920x1080 which will result in the loss of some quality. On Youtube, Quality loss should be minimal in 1080 playback but none in 720.

1620x1080 will give you some room to pan up and down w/ out loosing any quality.
John_Cline wrote on 10/2/2012, 2:18 PM
That should be 1440x1080, not 1620x1080.
musicvid10 wrote on 10/2/2012, 3:23 PM
Plenty of discussion about this on the fraps forums. Unless you and your friends have uberfast processors and connections, best advice right now is to stick with 720p for Youtube. Game play is not going to look that great if it stutters at higher resolutions and bandwidths.

http://frapsforum.com/threads/fraps-to-youtube-with-h-264.89

http://frapsforum.com/threads/fix-dark-fraps-videos.758/page

http://frapsforum.com/threads/encoding-videos-with-50p-60p-a

http://frapsforum.com/threads/raffriffs-links-page.772/

http://frapsforum.com/threads/fraps-a-youtube-problem.1609/p