Widescreen from normal width video on YouTube

[LoneSola]

Quick question, is there any way that you can do an HD video like this?

[guerillabill]

@LoneSola Yes, just set your project properties to 720p. Then import the SD video, and use pan and crop to zoom to wide screen.

Then render as 720p.

[LoneSola]

@guerillabill is it HDV 720-30p or 720-25p?

[guerillabill]

@LoneSola HDV 720-30p

[metalero551]

me sirvio!!

thanks!!

[LoneSola]

Thank-you so much!!! I've had this frustrating problem for days, and you're the first person to give me the correct instructions on how to fix it!!! I salute you guerillabill! :D

[BoxLineProductions]

did you render this video using your "Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD widescreen settings for YouTube" tutorial?

[guerillabill]

@BoxLineProductions Yes, I rendered the boat video to HDV 720-30p.

[saqibd123new]

thanks :D

[guerillabill]

@TheWiseRat22 The 'finding a great used boat' video at YouTube doesn't have the blackbars around it at YouTube, because I did what I show in the video above.

[maharg1610]

for some reason, my render settings do not show 30.000frame rate but only 15.000(multimedia) 25.000(PAL) and 29.970(NTSC).

I live in england, does this mean that it is different?

[guerillabill]

@maharg1610 If you live in england, your video camera probably shoots PAL format. The 25 framerate would probably work best for you

[bballboarder019]

ok i still have a question..how do i get 4:3 strechted..i do not want widescreen/16:9 bc it cuts off some off the video but i do want a wider setting without distorting and cutting off the image..

[TheWallsBreak]

it takes AGES to redner 10 sec video......do you know how to speed it up?

[guerillabill]

In most cases, it takes about 2 minutes to render 1 minute of HD widescreen video - unless the source video is encoded with divx or xvid.

If encoded with divx or xvid, it can take hours to render a few minutes, due to Vegas trying to restore all the missing frames divx and xvid remove

[EvansEmily]

@guerillabill And Is it possible to not make the videos be divx and xvid encoded???

Beacause it take hours to render a 3 minutes video!!!

[guerillabill]

@EvansEmily The device you use to record the video is where it would be compressed with divx or xvid. If you visit the xvid or divx site, you'll see the xvid and divx codecs are designed for highly compressed files, and not designed for video editing.

[EvansEmily]

@guerillabill Oh so the only solution is to change my camera :( ??

[guerillabill]

@EvansEmily If you want better quality and editable videos, avoid cameras that use the divx or xvid codec.

[MisterOhma]

Hiya. As helpful as this is, I have Vegas 9 and I followed your words step for step. While the video produced fills the screen, the quality of the video is nothing like this, nor do I get the HD/HQ button available to me. Is this the fault of the video I'm using to create what I wish to publish or am I just SOL?

[guerillabill]

If your source video is good quality, you'll get good results. If your source video is highly compressed or in divx or xvid codec, you'll get poor results.

[TheRsG0d]

i still dont understand when i pull up render as and go to custom i only have the auido and index/summary tab and the others just arent there..im using sony vegas movie studios 9 too?

[guerillabill]

Are you using Movie Studio Platinum? If not, you will not have all the features.

[TheRsG0d]

5/5 btw

[TheRsG0d]

hi, i have a question..you say go to event crop for each event so it has that widescreen setting but i have a variety of split events so that will take me all day to do so if there another way to do that..

also if u look at 3:37 in you video at the bottom middle u see project/audio/video/bit rate/index/summary...mine doesnt have those 5 categories why..how do i restore or create them..ty

[guerillabill]

You can select 'stretch video to fill output frame size' on the render settings page.

This will make all the clips fit the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.

I use Sony Movie Studio Platinum 9. The audio/video render options you see are part of that.

[HelloImJacobBlack]

Dude, thanks. EXACTLY what I needed. ***** Stars.

[DavyCronin]

thanks

[snipethen]

Is there a way to do this in Sony vegas Pro 8.0

[guerillabill]

It works exactly the same way in Vegas Pro.

[rodedawg74]

i used the project settings shown in the beginning and the 16.9 widescreen aspect ratio on event pan/crop. btw i shot video with a kodak easyshare camera

[guerillabill]

Which of the widening techniques shown in the above video did you use?

These are shown at 1:49 through 3:00

[destroyahdes]

This is great! I see too many videos with forced aspect ratio and everything is streached and fat. Off topic question. How can I lighten a video that's too dark? Is there a levels option like in photoshop?

[guerillabill]

You can lighten a video in Sony Vegas Movie Studio using the brightness and contrast fx

[destroyahdes]

Is that under one of the drop down menus like edit?

[guerillabill]

You can find it in the 'video fx' tab, or right click on the video, and select 'media effects'

[destroyahdes]

Ok thank you.

[FoGGeRdk]

Hey bill. At 2:46 u chose 16:9 aspect ratio from the dropdown menu..

BUT wont that leave visible areas in top/bottom of video where, for instance, scrolling text/images will be bugged in top and bottom of vid, cuz the source file is only stretched to sides?

For me it seems to work better better by:

right click the pan/crop window area, select "MATCH OUTPUT ASPECT"

[lildogg007]

thnks=]

[masteranime2]

Thank you so much, gotta subscribe if you giving tips like these

[ytpaul123]

HELP ! - I recorded an off-air program on my DVD recorder, transfered the finished DVD to my computer hard drive, and then loaded it onto Sony Vegas. Once edited and rendered, Archetect will not allow me to burn the finished project. Any suggestions? I think it may be a VOB / IFO / BUP file issue - there are a total of 6 files associated with the DVD.

[guerillabill]

In Vegas, render the video as avi, using the 'ntsc template', and then import that into DVD Architect

[BackyardFX]

so whats the width, height, and frameRate?

[guerillabill]

See 1:05 into the video

[striatu24k]

cheers bill

[EronyBoy]

it helped me a lot as always. Thank ou Bill!

[VolkainWalkthroughs]

that is Sony Vegas

[beast773]

I have regular videos that i try to put into sony movie studio, but all i get is the sound on the timeline? Help please? Thank you

[guerillabill]

Those 'regular' videos are likely divx or xvid files in .avi wrappers.

This means even though they have an .avi extension, they are really dvix or xvid encoded files.

In order to edit those files, you'll need the proper codec installed on your computer.

Use gspot codec detector to discover what codec those avi files need

[hackpro8]

Hi Bill this is a question from a fellow tutorial'er? i just started making vegas tutorials for 7.0-8.0 and does this work with 8.0 pro?

[guerillabill]

Yes, the above works with 8 Pro

[hackpro8]

Alright i got it to work i think just rendering in wmw default template gives wide screen any way hahah oh well, thanks for the help and besure to have a look at some of my tutorials!

[hackpro8]

Bill one more question i try rendering a 3minute video on vegas and in wmw form and everything even tried avi but it only rendered 4 seconds of it? and i selected the whole video?

[guerillabill]

Be sure that 'loop region only' is not checked on the render page.

[beast773]

ok well when i check the avi file it tells me that the XviD 1.1.2 Final codec is installed but im not sure if that is what the codec i use should be? what should i do next?

[guerillabill]

Xvid codec creates highly compressed video which is difficult to edit as the compression removes much of the data from the source video.

You'll usually get black frames, instead of video.

To edit xvid compressed video, you'll have to find a compatible xvid codec.

I don't know of any that work well.

[nielsballing]

can anynone help me? In sony vegas plantium 9 is my timeline in the lower part of the window and if i want it to the upper part what do i have to do then?

[guerillabill]

Find the answer in my YouTube video, 'Change Timeline placement in Sony Vegas '

[nielsballing]

thank you very much

[ryan2546]

I have Vegas Movie Studio 9 and i cant use event /pan/crop at all if i click on it all buttions turn gray untill i click again Can you help me?

[guerillabill]

Be sure there is video in the track where you are clicking pan & crop

[TACOPIZZAMAKER]

Thanks a again you been a big help!Kudos to you!

[Warioproductions]

Hello there Bill. If I record a clip of 49 seconds long, the size of that clip is going over 350 mb. I used camtasia and uncompressed frames compressor. What do I need to do? I want my size of my clip to 10mb for 1 minute or something. the video must be still good quality. any ideas?

[guerillabill]

When I record and edit HD video in Camtasia, the videos generally are 2mb per minute.

I record 30 fps, avi, using techsmith screen capture codec

[Warioproductions]

Thanks much Bill! Is that also the same in Camtasia 6?

Thanks again.

-Me.

[guerillabill]

Yes, these are the settings I use in Camtasia 6

[Warioproductions]

Hello again. I tried this out. I recorded with 15 frames per second(is this fps?). I recorded 15 seconds and I became 8.15 mb. Did you mean that your video in Vegas is 2MB per minute? Or did you mean that your recorded clip with camtasia is 2MB(not rendered in Vegas)? Thanks for helping.

[guerillabill]

My camtasia recorded, camtasia rendered videos usually work out to 2mb per minute in swf format.

In mpeg format, the clip size goes to 4 meg a minute

[iluvtoskate12345]

SO, by doing this we get the HQ button and not the HD button as for this specific video?

It sort of confuses me how a tutorial for HQ has a HD button.

=)

[guerillabill]

The tutorial is created with Camtasia studio from video recorded in wide screen HD. The tutorial is about using standard definition, non wide screen and rendering it as widescreen hq.

[philipmayerINC]

I suggest to render it with 1080x720 pixles. You'll get 720p HD format and it has just a better quality. Especially for images from a digital camera

[guerillabill]

You won't get wide screen at YouTube with 1080 X 720 - and that was the purpose of this video, to show how to get wide screen with non wide screen video at YouTUbe

[Cadumanz]

Thanks, i doing widescreen like you do in the first method, but i just didn't ended the video because it got all stretched. Now i can just finish editing it. :)

[ollieblade]

at 4:38 why did you blur out the text and images also how do you do that? by the way its not blurred at the start

[guerillabill]

I used the blur effect in Camtasia Studio to blur out offensive text in a title of a video YouTube put in the related video list

[ollieblade]

Yes but at the very begining, the same text is 100% visable. So what was the pont of doing that?

[guerillabill]

The part that I wanted blurred is blurred.

[squidskunk]

as always great tutorial...thanx bill....

[nathspunk]

so how did you upload this as HD?

was it the settings from your HD video?

[Landshark32]

why doesnt mine give me the HD option? it just gives me HQ? Im using an HD camera? and its already 16:9 and i the exact same thing you did?

another question? i used to do 640x360 WMV and i would get awesome/clear quality then all of sudden when i did the same thing they came out hazy/distorted? anyway You could help some settings for just basic 640x360 HQ? Please!

[Lonelyeco]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been tryna figure that out.

[frumpytuin]

I usually do 873x480 for my widescreen videos only to be posted on youtube. it works actually quite well.

[marquesbrownlee]

Nice!

[jrcjoseph]

Awesome video I'm using the 30 day trial of Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum but I'm probably going to buy the program after I buy a new iPod :)

[KattenJonsson]

Thanks! Really helpful!

[teegrinsays]

why not render 640 by 480

[guerillabill]

If you render 640X480, the video won't fill the wide screen player at YouTube, and will have black bars on each side of the video

[teegrinsays]

ooo. thanks..

err so i guess youtube should change its recomended settings because the page still says 640 x 480.

[guerillabill]

Actually, they have updated their recommended settings.

If you go to YouTube Help, select 'editing video', and then 'uploading higher quality videos', they suggest 480x360 or higher for wide screen

[zitsCATHY]

Thanks so much for this ^_^

[6191904life]

thanks i was just about to ask you to do this tut

[Vester9998]

1st view, rating, and comment! owned!

[jfeinhandler]

Bill Rocks it!

[UnrealNate]

Thanks, I've been wondering how to do this for awhile.