You Tube Rendering

FlashGordon wrote on 7/10/2010, 9:15 AM
I see an answer to my previous question saying to render in AVC 16:9HD format but when I look in my options I don't find that setting. I am still using Vegas Pro 8.0c (Build 260) so maybe it's not offered?
My list shows the following;
AVC HD 1440x1080 NTSC, NTSC 5.1 surround, PAL & PAL 5.1 surround.
Then AVC HD 1920x1080 same four options.
Where do I find this 16:9HD format?

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 7/10/2010, 9:21 AM
Those are both 16:9 HD formats.

What is your original video?
FlashGordon wrote on 7/13/2010, 8:53 AM
Video is from my Sony TRV-18 camera. No HD or anything.
musicvid10 wrote on 7/13/2010, 10:28 AM
If your camera does not shoot widescreen, there is no point in rendering widescreen video.

EDIT: Apparently the TRV-18 has a fake 16:9 setting.
FlashGordon wrote on 7/13/2010, 12:00 PM
I didn't think I was asking anything about widescreen. I'm just trying to figure out what the best rendering for YouTube is to get the highest quality video out there with the tools I have. I had been rendering with the default on MainConcept AVC/ACC (*.mp4) which is definitely not the highest quality. I need advice as to how I can produce the highest quality video on YouTube with Vegas 8.0c.
musicvid10 wrote on 7/13/2010, 12:11 PM
Your first post asked about HD 16:9, which is Widescreen. That is all I had to go on.

Then you told us you have a TRV-18, which does not shoot HD, but shoots SD. Apparently it does have a fake 16:9 setting, but I don't know if you are using it or not (for best quality, you shouldn't be).

But in your other thread, your question was, "How do you render to High Def for YouTube?" So the answer that John Cline gave you was correct.

The bottom line is you are not going to get HD from SD video. And if you render it that way it will look like caca.

So the logical answer is to use a SD template that supports your camera footage (but we still don't know if it is 4:3 or 16:9). In your case, the standard MPEG-2 DVD NTSC template (with the appropriate aspect) should work just fine for you without having to worry about all the settings.

Here is some more information on Aspect Ratio.
BTW, 4:3 video will not fill the screen aspect on Youtube but will show pillarboxing (which means black bars on the sides of the video).

I hope this makes more sense.