Rendering videos with Sony Vegas Pro 13 are in bad quality

[XAshKetchumX]

I don't even know anymore. I looked for every video out there explaining the best rendering settings possible and still. I see this pixelation and loss in quality when I render it. I tried pushing the bit-rate up and that didn't do anything at all. I even tried putting it to 2-pass and that didn't even do anything.

Here are my rendering settings.
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Could there be something interfering with the quality?

 

[XAshKetchumX]

If I may be honest here, I think your video on Youtube looks about as good as you can get without uploading in 4k. Even professionally produced shows have that same quality. Don't forget that Youtube processes and converts their videos on their own, and applies compression to them, so it's not going to look exactly like the original, uncompressed version. Youtube offers this page for optimal encoding settings, why don't you try them and see if you get better results?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

If not I honestly think the issue is Youtube's encoding process and not anything you can control otherwise.

(For the record I was viewing this on a 1080p, 27" monitor)

Here's the thing.

If it could possibly be the Youtube encoding issue (which kinda sounds reasonable enough), how come bigger Youtubers like the Yogscast and Pewdiepie seem to get REALLY outstanding results. It just doesn't make any sense. I know both of them must have good computers that can get the rendering done and I even have one myself but instead, I get horrible results when it comes to rendering content.

I'm gonna try to match up most of my settings to Youtube encoding settings to see if it resolves it, if it doesn't, I'm just gonna stop trying.

By the way, what format should I upload this in?

Main Concept or Sony AVC?

 

[kenrivers]

Try Sony AVC first.

 

[XAshKetchumX]

Try Sony AVC first.

Ok, rendering it with Sony AVC loses the quality after rendering it again. It looks REALLY blurred for some reason. Main Concept seems to render better results except it loses more detail for example in a game where it has hills or trees in the background. It would have more detail in the raw file but after rendering it, it loses that sharp detail in the background and makes it really blocky.

Uploading to Youtube would be even more horrific since Youtube's encoding is not the best.

Any other things to try?

 

[kenrivers]

I'll give it some thought and look into it. If I were a gamer and I used Sony Vegas I would be better able to help you. The only screen capture video I have uploaded was done on a Mac and it was a tutorial. Everything else was shot with a video camera. How large is the raw file? I could download a trial version of Vegas and see what I could do with it. If nothing else it would be something new for me to learn and experiment with. I could also test it with a less expensive program just to see how the output would look. Of course you could record a short clip and let me experiment with that one. Just a thought.

 

[XAshKetchumX]

I'll give it some thought and look into it. If I were a gamer and I used Sony Vegas I would be better able to help you. The only screen capture video I have uploaded was done on a Mac and it was a tutorial. Everything else was shot with a video camera. How large is the raw file? I could download a trial version of Vegas and see what I could do with it. If nothing else it would be something new for me to learn and experiment with. I could also test it with a less expensive program just to see how the output would look. Of course you could record a short clip and let me experiment with that one. Just a thought.

Sorry for the recent late replies, (really busy with school this week).

I tried rendering my video with MainConcept with the Deblocking filter checked and Two-Pass on, and it seemed to actually fix the problem, (except it still didn't retain the sharpness that was once with the raw recording and having to bear with longer rendering times.)

Now there's just this one problem where the Youtube encoding screws up the video's HD quality and makes it look like poop. So how would I go about fixing this issue?

 

[kenrivers]

Have to get back to you on that one. Not quite sure what can be done.