Rendering : GOOD v BEST

jamcas wrote on 12/12/2003, 8:21 PM
Hi,

I am redering some stuff to AVI as I write this and becasue I am in a rush I am rendering to PAL DV in GOOD quality as a opposed to BEST which takes 30 - 40% more time.

my question is what is the real difference between good and best ?

should you always be using best ? Im going to see the reults for my self shortly but im wondering if anyone can shed some more light on this topic.

what do you render in ?

Regards
Jaime

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 12/12/2003, 9:34 PM
Generally NOT necessary unless you're doing a slide show type project. Do a search you'll get more specifics why. In short all rendering at "best" does it cause the render to take much longer. Only rarely do you need it.
slambubba wrote on 12/12/2003, 9:36 PM
i'm just a video hobbyist, but i've found "good" works fine for video and "best" for slideshows of stills.
slambubba wrote on 12/12/2003, 9:40 PM
billyboy, i would have beat you with the answer, but i made a cocktail before replying!
Maxter wrote on 12/13/2003, 4:36 AM
Does Best increase the file size?
jetdv wrote on 12/13/2003, 6:04 AM
No. Both produce exactly the same size file.
jetdv wrote on 12/13/2003, 6:31 AM
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums//ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=95119
Former user wrote on 12/13/2003, 10:51 AM
If find that if I resize a Picture (a la pic in pic), if I render at GOOD, I get artifacts, rendering at BEST fixed it, so I only render at Best.

Dave T2
pete_h wrote on 12/13/2003, 3:00 PM
I'm getting ready to do slide shows with Vegas, ......

(the last time I did this was with (don't cough ! .... VideoWave 5.0, about a year ago, and all I did was drag the jpg's to the 'time line' and made an AVI file of the results....actually looked pretty good!)

Can I just drag the jpg's (3.3 meg pixel pix's) to the time line and make a AVI file out of them using the default "good" setting, or should I use the "best" setting ???

Is their a big difference in quality....????

Pete
HPV wrote on 12/13/2003, 3:30 PM
You can always compare the two settings via your preview window quality settings. If you see a difference, you can prerender sections at best quality then finish the project at good. Don't change at project level or you'll lose all prerenders. Create a region and shift m to prerender. Go to custom panel and build a preset with the video rendering quality set to best. Sections prerendered at best will get picked up with print to tape and avi renders at the good setting.
BTW, lots of stuff can be done at the preview quality with perfect results and much faster renders. I just did a DV project with title scrolls, dissolves, generated media, color correction/color curves/broadcast filters. Perfect.
Caution - Scaling (and some other things I'm sure) will produce poor results with this setting.
Prerendered regions to the rescue again. Happy Holidays all.

Craig H.
farss wrote on 12/13/2003, 3:44 PM
Why should anyone cough just becuase of the tool you used?
I've done more than that with Videowave including some short corporate stuff. It came for free with my firewire card and for real simple stuff it's reliable, basically goof proof and quite fast.
pete_h wrote on 12/14/2003, 4:11 PM
OK,....

but what about my question.....
Liam_Vegas wrote on 12/14/2003, 4:34 PM
Here's an idea... why don't you try rendering a small segment of your slideshow project using BEST and then do it in GOOD and then judge the results yourself? Seems to me that will actually take just a very short while and will get you the answer you are looking for.

Anyone here can say (and some have aleady said) that the BEST setting does have an impact over the GOOD setting particularly if you are using slides/images. But in the end... only you can decide if YOU feel the extra rendering time is worth the result.