Sony Vegas Pro 10 Rendering Settings

[quote=Scrax]So I'm wondering if anyone's got some really good settings for me to use when it comes to rendering movies? I'm currently rendering 1080p and the quality is great, but the brightness ALWAYS decreases after rendering for some odd reason. [color=#808080][b]Sony AVC/MVC[/b] [color=#808080](.mp4, m2ts, avc)[/color] [b]Video format:[/b] [color=#808080]AVC[/color] [b]Frame size:[/b] [color=#808080]1920 x 1080[/color] [b]Profile:[/b] [color=#808080]Baseline[/color] [b]Entropy Coding:[/b] [color=#808080]CAVLC[/color] [b]Frame Rate:[/b] [color=#808080]Same rate I record in; 50 FPS[/color] [b]Field Order:[/b] [color=#808080]None (progressive scan)[/color] [b]Pixel Aspect Ratio:[/b] [color=#808080]1.0000[/color] [b]Bit Rate:[/b] [color=#808080]16 000 000[/color] [b]Encode Mode:[/b] [color=#808080]Automatic[/color][/color] I'm thinking of just recording in 30 FPS, but I really like the smooth slowmotion. Input please :)![/quote]

[quote=Zoki]I don't think it has something to do with settings. Did you try adding brightness filters? Add them either to entire projects or only sections that appear too dark after rendering and it may help.What are you recording anyway? Games, real life? And what software(if you're recording games on PC) and hardware do you use?[/quote]

[quote=Scrax]I've tried adding brightness, but then it just looks f*ing ridiculous. FRAPS on any game. Hardware is irrelevant, it's a good gaming rig. When I try random settings the brightness is fine, it's with these settings I get this issue, hence why I want to try any other 1080p settings people might have. It's not that I don't know how to capture, edit and produce movies, it's just this funky bug/glitch/whatever thats got me in a headlock. Quite annoying.[/quote]

[quote=Zoki]Well I heard that Fraps doesn't capture gamma information from games, so it may be Fraps issue, not Sony Vegas. And if you look it from other perspective. Maybe brightness isn't screwed up after rendering because of different settings(you said it works fine when you use random settings), but rather because video can't handle rendering in 1080p.[/quote]

[quote=Scrax]I get the same result at 720, which is weird. And the video is not the issue, almost anything can be rendered 1080p, not to mention BF3 on ultra. And the clips look fine watching them pre-rendering (raw files). Meh, I'll keep trying. EDIT: Slapping on some random generated brightness filter now to see if it works.[/quote]

[quote=Zoki]You said that everything looks like shit i you use brightness filter. Did you try using it only in sequences that are mostly dark and leave those that are okay alone? And I even tried to Google it for you, and for most people its the same bug that you have. It looks okay pre-render, but then the brightness is different, lower or higher. Tried reinstalling Sony Vegas? Maybe there is a corrupted file or just some bad setting that you don't know how to revert?[/quote]

[quote=Scrax]I've tried changing the filter around, yeah. It kind of looks ok now (just smacked on top of the entire video layer to properly reduce any rendered shades and dark colors), but it's still somewhat funky. And I'm too lazy to reinstall :P Thanks for the help, appreciated. Gonna live with the filter right now.[/quote]