Tutorial: Streamlining Video Encoding in Sony Vegas Pro
In this fifth tutorial in our six-part series on Sony Vegas Pro 11, we're going to talk about the Render dialog box. Every project you work on, whether it's delivered on the web, or even on DVD or Blu-ray Disc, has to go through a rendering stage, so you'll find yourself getting quite familiar with it as you do more project. In Vegas Pro 11, Sony has added some new features to the Render dialog, and they've totally revamped the way that it works.
By clicking on a template underneath a render type, you designate that as a favorite. For instance, I've created some customized templates here, and I want to designate these as favorites. These are templates that I'll use quite frequently. So, for example, here's a DVD at 24p, so I'm going to designate that as a favorite. You'll notice in Figure 6 that you have an option you can check called "Show favorites only." If you click that, then what you'll see only the templates you've chosen as favorites with everything else filtered out.
This is a great feature because we typically use the same rendering templates over and over again, and in our shop, we render for YouTube and Vimeo, we render for Blu-ray, we render for DVD, and occasionally we will render for Sony MXF intermediate, and that's about it, so it makes a lot of sense for us to select "Show favorites only" as soon as we arrive in the Render As dialog.
Matching Project Settings
Another exciting option in the Render As dialog in Vegas Pro 11 is the Match Project settings you see at the top of Figure 6. In the project shown in this example, the properties are set to HD 24p (Figure 7, below).
Figure 7. Project Settings for my project
If I open the Render As dialog box and say, "Show me only the templates that match my project settings," the only options that Vegas displays are the templates and the render format types that specifically match my Project Settings (Figure 8, below). This also is a great timesaver and a great way to filter out what you don't want to see.
Figure 8. Templates that match my Project Settings
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