Vegas rendering defaults

Serena wrote on 7/2/2005, 6:34 PM
Over time I've noted a few threads that have included criticism of the default values set in Vegas for rendering to various formats ("good" rather than "best" is one of them). HDV has added yet more formats and it could be useful for everyone if we could collect in one place the rendering parameters you have found to give best results for each format.
I'm not going to make the first contribution because I'm still on the learning curve on this (undoubtedly why I've raised the issue!).

Serena

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jetdv wrote on 7/2/2005, 6:46 PM
("good" rather than "best" is one of them)

Actually, a fair percentage of the time, you SHOULD use good. Best helps when doing photo montages but when only using DV-AVI files, it's usually recommended to stay at good.

However, there ARE some bad "default" settings - such as the default MPEG2 preset. It will NOT give you very good results and you really need to pick one of the DVD Architect presets, for example.
Serena wrote on 7/2/2005, 8:12 PM
Guess this is difficult question to answer until "what purpose?" is defined. Rather like the question: "which camera should I buy?". Obviously it would be nice to collect a table of rendering parameters against client use of product, which would include issues such as relative rendering times versus observable benefit.

I'd hoped to keep this more general than my particular interests, but I'll make the upfront statement that I'm of the view that maximum quality extractable from the material is the aim point rather than the minimum acceptable to the client. So I prefer a standard suitable for projection even though the client won't appreciate the difference on their dometic TV or computer.
My own source material is HDV (so I'm biased towards that) but edit also other people's DV for delivery on DVD.
johnmeyer wrote on 7/2/2005, 8:51 PM
Do your own rendering tests on short (30 second) clips. If you can't tell the difference, then it isn't worth the extra time to use some of the advanced settings. In my experience, Ed's advice (jetdv) is exactly correct, and you won't be able to tell the difference (between Best and Good), except with very high res stills.
Serena wrote on 7/2/2005, 10:21 PM
OK. Thanks.