What is the best render format in Sony Vegas?

MAGIX AVC/AAC is the best format to use in Vegas Pro 17. Obviously you need to choose the template that uses the correct Frame Rate to match your project settings.

What format should I render in?

If you’re looking for something that will render fast and play easily on most machines, it’s hard to go wrong with H. 264. Designed to maximize quality with a low bitrate and small file size, the H. 264 codec is actually one of the most common encoding standards for Blu-ray.

How to render 1080p video using Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD?

In this video tutorial I show you how to set up Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 to render a 1080p HD Video for YouTube, Vimeo or any other website that hosts video. To get your 1080p HD Video looking fantastic there are two steps involved: Firstly you have to set your Project Property Settings correctly.

Can a 1080p video be rendered to a 720p video?

There are pre-made templates for rendering 4K, 1080p and 720p video. Depending on which CPU and GPU your computer uses, you will see different versions of each template which can take advantage of GPU acceleration to speed up your render times.

Can a Sony Vegas Pro render to Windows Media?

On lower powered computers with not enough memory, it can just keel over and die halfway through rendering. If you are interested in Rendering to Windows Media Video instead of MainConcept AVC/AAC, then you can watch a video tutorial I made for Sony Vegas Pro 11, where I showed three different ways to render.

Is there an alternative to Vegas Pro for video rendering?

There is only one alternative to using Vegas Pro for rendering, and that is to use Handbrake to render your videos. I will be uploading a detailed tutorial about this soon. There is a lot of information on the Internet about this already, but unfortunately one of the web pages (not on my site) no longer exists.