I always use "Best," even though it slows down render times noticeably. Try something using Pan/Crop or Track Motion with "Good" setting -- you'll see why!

This is answered many, many times in this forum. Do a search on best, and limit the search to answers given by the SOFO moderator. Summary of those posts: For video, Good is perfectly fine. For rendering stills, best gives noticeably better results.

Here are some posts to check:

Good vs Best...What's the Real Difference?

Why are the stills vibrating?

Yeah, I dont understand where the attitude is coming from. If in 6 hours your question doesnt get answered, then take a deep breath and try again tomorrow. Most people on this forum, when they reply, will give you very valid info with regards to your problem. In fact i think the manual goes over what Good, Better, and Best settings.

In answer to your question:

Good setting is perfectly fine for most video projects. Ive read where people use Best when they have really bad footage to start out with, but to me this never made sense since you can DeInterlace Your Footage, Color Correct, Reduce Picture Noise with AVIsynth, with Pictures you can use NeatImage to "clean" up stills.....You get the idea.

I am sure there is some technical difference in the way Vegas handles each setting but wether you are going to notice it is a different story. Best does add more render time to your project which might be a consideration if under some deadline.

I have actually seen where the better settings makes your picture less desirable (not necessarily in Vegas, but in other programs.) Its like the person who keeps on using "sharpen" to improve image quality but it turns out un-natural looking.

Best thing to do is to evaluate your source material. If it does not look right... make note of the things that dont look right about it. To pixelated you might want to try to reduce the picture size, colors are off....open up the color correction features.

Are you rendering to QT, DV AVI, or other? These are also considerations and tradeoffs you will have to make when finalizing your project. No TWO PROJECTS are going to be the same with regards to settings because you might have a lot of PAN/CRop or motion tracking in one and not the other. Generally though "Good" is fine for most video projects.

Thanks for the replies- they made sense... I did a search in the forum- must not have been narrow enough- sorry for the repost!

"Yeah, I dont understand where the attitude is coming from. If in 6 hours your question doesnt get answered, then take a deep breath and try again tomorrow."

Attitude???? Excuse me but it was longer than a day- so pardon me starixiom... and thank you for the detailed reply- I appreciate your feedback and the info provided