video looks blurry after rendering.

Abraham-Castellanos wrote on 3/17/2019, 8:24 PM

Hello guys, awesome community and software. I am a newbie at film editing and so far I've been digging vegas pro just to get my feet wet. I purchased Vegas 16 and it's really easy to use but I seem to be having an issue with blurriness after I render the video to 1080p. The video ends up being blurry or hazy looking.

The first link is the original gopro footage uploaded to youtube. I'm recording in 4k, 24fps and super view.

The second link is same footage rendered to 1080pp, 25fps (NVIDIA NVENC) setting and color correction, saturation and sharpeness.

I want to start posting these videos to instagram and youtube.

What's the easiest way to post to videos I edit from vegas to instagram?

Can someone guide me a little? I'm not even sure what I should be doing. Thanks, much appreciated.

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Matthias-Claflin wrote on 3/17/2019, 9:21 PM

It looks like the compression is different and maybe the grade is too harsh for the footage to handle? I'm not sure.

Can you take a screen shot of your exact render settings?

Kinvermark wrote on 3/17/2019, 9:28 PM

Footage is 24p but you rendered to 25p ? That could be a problem. Change render frame rate to 24p and test a short part. Also try without NVENC.

Abraham-Castellanos wrote on 3/17/2019, 9:50 PM

Matthias-Claflin wrote on 3/17/2019, 10:04 PM

Kinvermark is correct. The first issue is that it is trying to resample your footage. So it would be in your best interest to change the preset to 23.97fps/24fps or to disable resample in the project settings. I don't really know why Vegas doesn't come pre-loaded with a 24fps preset, but it doesn't so you'll have to make your own. That said, are you aware that Vegas renders in Studio RGB and previews in Computer RGB? So the preview monitor will not give an accurate example of your contrast. There is a great thread on that here.

Abraham-Castellanos wrote on 3/17/2019, 10:09 PM

Ok great. Where do I change this setting? File ->properties?

If I render it as a .avi file, it's fine but I don't think this is a good format to save video

diverG wrote on 3/18/2019, 7:25 AM

Start with the 'nearest' render template & select 'customise template' (button just below template list in your snapshot). If your material & timeline are set to 24p there is a good chance you can create your own template to meet your needs. Give it a try, save template to 'your name'. Just a short section for test purposes.

If not OK change 'your template' or delete to save future confusion.

Abraham-Castellanos wrote on 3/18/2019, 10:30 AM

Thank you all so much. I think I got it now. Seems to be rendering pretty good.

One last question. What's the easiest to way to edit videos on vegas and uploading them on instagram???

set wrote on 3/18/2019, 10:49 AM

For Instagram videos, depends on your target aspect ratio settings, do you want portrait, square, or standard 16:9?

for Portrait, I set the project 1080x1350, and in rendering, I just choose Magix AVC/AAC, and choose one of internet template and change it to whether 720x900 bitrate 4Mbps or 864x1080 5Mbps (or perhaps 1080x1350 too, no problem)

If you target for square - 1080x1080 / 720x720 4Mbps is fine.

But if you choose standard landscape 16:9, just go with 720p bitrate 4Mbps.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlX1TOllE8U/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1wlsFBMWE/

(all 1 minute duration)

*Also, better to save as to different VEG Project file, and not to worry with save files, better have so many, since VEG project files are small sizes.

as for blurry issues, better know your source recording frame rate and your target delivery frame rate, and be sure to make it similar if possible. if you working in 23.97 / 24p, better stay with that...

so does if you are working with 25p or 29.97p or 30p (or even 50p or 60p!). Also, in your media files, be sure to disable resample to avoid any blurring)

Abraham-Castellanos wrote on 3/18/2019, 11:20 PM

Thank you so much Set. arter video is done rendering you send it to your phone?

Abraham-Castellanos wrote on 3/18/2019, 11:55 PM

I rendered to 720p...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvLTgt9FHO1/

set wrote on 3/19/2019, 5:11 AM

Thank you so much Set. arter video is done rendering you send it to your phone?

Yes, send to phone (Android user, so sent via Airdroid), and then from IG, just choose that video, choose cover, upload, done.

*Ah, so it's you who just followed me, the_outdoor_teacher 😅 - ok, following back yours!)

fan-boy wrote on 3/19/2019, 3:50 PM

Vegas menu : Tools-->Burn Disk-->Burn Blu-Ray disk opens the Mastering Dialogue . choose render to drive , choose Sony AVC\MVC codec . choose to render with 16 Mbps option . 24p if that's what you use . choose Sony w64 audio . choose 24 bit 96 khz PCM audio . Vegas Project settings can be set to 24 bit 96 khz or 192 khz . In Vegas menu File-->Properties-->Video Tab set quality box to Best , in Audio Tab set quality to Best . Also in Video Tab set to 32 bit Full with gamma 2.2 and turn translation OFF The Render out of the Mastering dialogue will render to .iso file . Mount the .iso with windows Explorer and find file 0000.m2ts copy it to a convenient location and rename it . It is Blu-ray compliant . The high bit rate audio has extra data for youtube to work with during youtube's re-transcoding . your uploaded video will have the best audio on youtube ..The video quality is always nice too . about 1 gig every 10 minutes ..