I'm looking to do a hyperlapse with a sequence of drone photos, but it seems like the overall quality degrades when all the pictures gets processed through vegas. Is there a tutorial for creating a hyperlapse with the latest vegas? How does 7.92gb of photos end up being 182mb of 4k video?
1. photo size
2. project settings
3. render settings
please ;-)
Most codec's compress the frames or interpolate to get the job done (I saw a flamethrower video two days ago where the eagle flying in the background would disappear because of the compression). You need a higher bitrate to keep the quality.
It seems like I already found what I was looking for on youtube. I just had to dig a little. Here's the end product. It's only a test, but I still wish to improve the quality. 
Upping the bitrate would be the easiest way. I'm not sure if using better codec's before uploading to youtube helps because of their recompression.
"How does 7.92gb of photos end up being 182mb of 4k video?"
The 20,000 ft. view.
1) On the NLE timeline, in order to do time compression, frames are either blended or dropped depending on the Resample setting.
2) When rendered to an interframe codec, only the index frames contain a full image. All the P and B frames only contain difference data.
In hyperlapse or time lapse, most of the content in the pictures that you shoot is thrown away because the scene doesn't change as frequently as the frame rate of the capture or the finished video. In this video, the workers partially or completely disappear and the work seems to get done like magic. The one major exception being the electrician in the foreground who spent quite a long time working on the EPO.
While in this video the workers are visible and look like characters in an old movie.
You should dump the drone and use your still camera to do long term time lapse. You could spend all afternoon in beautiful places and only have to edit 28 seconds of video.
