rendering quality?

Aaron wrote on 10/30/2017, 2:25 AM

Hope someone can help me - I am using movie studio platinum 14 and about to give up! I have made a video and I've rendered it about 15 times in as many different ways and still the finished product has an echo in the image and blurred or very poor image quality. The original image I am working from is clear and HD in quality. I have uploaded the finished rendered video to youtube. The other videos I've made in the past were clear, until I 'upgraded' to windows 10 from 7 and nothing worked on my computer, and therefore had to go to movie studio platinum 14. You can see what I am talking about with regards to the video quality output here -

This is getting to become all rather frustrating!

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EricLNZ wrote on 10/30/2017, 5:23 AM

Aaron, you need to provide more info if you are to get help.

What is your source material and what export (render) template are you using?

Aaron wrote on 10/30/2017, 5:43 AM

Hello and thanks for making contact. You might need to assist with these. . . My source material is footage taken from a sony HD camcorder. The export render template - where am I finding this to advise you? I've included a snapshot of the "render as" screen. Is this what you are after?

Aaron wrote on 10/30/2017, 5:44 AM

Also I should say the - Render quality is set to 'Best'

EricLNZ wrote on 10/30/2017, 6:07 AM

Are you in Australia? If so you are PAL, not NTSC but the template has NTSC framerate. Customise it to PAL 25 fps and see if that improves it. You could also increase the bitrate to say 15 mbps.

Aaron wrote on 10/31/2017, 2:44 AM

Thanks, I've re-rendered it using PAL widescreen settings and uploaded it here - Still not a great quality. Don't know how to increase bit rate and the help section didn't say. Will keep trying different settings.

EricLNZ wrote on 10/31/2017, 3:12 AM

YouTube is only giving it to me at 480p so not surprisingly it's not great quality. 480p is the top available! Are you sure you exported at 1080?

EricLNZ wrote on 10/31/2017, 3:24 AM

Perhaps you've rendered it as SD?

Use the template you showed earlier as below then customise it by altering the framerate to PAL 25 from the drop down list.

Also probably best to untick "Allow source to adjust framerate".

vkmast wrote on 10/31/2017, 3:25 AM

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-why-does-my-rendered-video-look-bad-troubleshooting-quality--103361/ (Section 6. on "bit rate".) Also linked in https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/vegas-movie-studio-faqs--106024/#ca656182 Fixing quality problems. See also Better AVC on that page [link also in Section 6. "bit rate" paragraph).

Btw., in MVMS14P Help: You can create your own rendering templates if you need to adjust the bit rates. For more information, see "Custom rendering templates.")

Aaron wrote on 10/31/2017, 6:55 AM

This rendering has better quality, but now has a thick black boarder all the way around, which isn't acceptable! I had to render it twice as it had a long period of black screen (with audio) that the video didn't work. I don't feel this should be this difficult for 13 mins of video. Terrible.

Aaron wrote on 11/5/2017, 12:44 AM

Is there anyway I can adjust the pixel ratio or something - the final film looks too pix-elated. Or does anyone know how I can save the working file to a previous version, so I can open it in an old version to see if that works any better?

3POINT wrote on 11/6/2017, 9:57 AM

VMS14 has some aids to make it easy for Newbees to produce high quality videos.

Project Settings are automatically set to the properties of the first imported Videoclip on the timeline. For exporting a finished project, there's a handy Make Movie wizard, which guides you trough the renderprocess without letting you choose from the bunch of existing rendertemplates.

Try first to use these aids, before making your own settings.

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