How to Make HD WoW Videos on YouTube - Sony Vegas 8/9

[Duplicity]

First of all, I would like to say this:
This is a simple process to do. My goal, is to expand your knowledge, and give someone new tips how to do High Def. videos on youtube.

Remember: Anyone Can Google.

Items Needed

• -Any Screen Recording Program. Fraps, GameCam, Camtasia, Hypercam. You name it. Make sure it captures it in HIGH detail. Most likely AVI
• -Lots of disk space. I mean lots. 5GB-10GB of video footage will be taken for a 5-8 minute video.
• -Sony Vegas 8 or 9.

Before Starting
First, I would like to stress this: There is MANY ways to do this. For these examples I am showing you, it is my way, and probably the easiest.

Second, it will take a long time to encode your videos unless, you have a monster nVidia Quatro.

Third, The files will be big. 100-300mb depending how "high detail" you want.

Now, lets get started!

Capture a footage of some WoW.
MAKE SURE YOU CAPTURE IN FULL SIZE. HD VIDEOS MUST BE AT A CERTAIN SIZE TO BE HD. I BELIEVE ITS ATLEAST 720 (height) TO BE SAFE, SOMEWHERE AROUND 1280x720!

Run Sony Vegas. For this example, I'll be using Sony Vegas 9.

Right off the bat, when you go to File > New Project it will ask you the file name, NTCS/Pal, Output type, and Sound.

Normally, I would choose NTSC. Hit next. This part is not so important. Just look for 720p. If you are on SV8, just hit new.

Then, go to File > Properties. Make sure you hit the Folder Icon. Select your movie and open it. It should pull the details such as Width, height.

(I spell bad.)
After your done, hit apply. And Okay.

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Now, edit your video to your likings. Afterwards when you are allll done.

File > Render As.

• File type: Windows Media Video V9/11 (9 is for SV8 and 11 is for SV9)
• Template: 6Mbps HD 720-30p
• Uncheck Render Loop Regions Only.

NOTE: You can click on "Custom" to customize your settings. Basically, only change your BIT RATE. Common rule. Higher the quality, the bigger the file.

• You can up this to 10 Mbps if you want to wait a long time to render and upload.
• If you have some nice codecs, you can try changing your codecs and experiment. Practice makes perfect.
  

A general rule is this: On average, 100MB will take an hour to upload.

• 100MB will take atleast 25-45 mintues to render. It's different for everyone. Its dependent on your processor and GPU (if you have a highend one, like the Quatro)

If this is a repost, I must be blind. So sue me.

Still editing. Pictures will be uploaded soon.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG6r1KvVPDc

This is encoded with 5.5Mbps.

[Khalts]

Full of win this thread is. +rep and keep it up. Maybe i do some wow killing on my 69 rogue when i get a new computer ^^ ty

[MaxiPads]

50-100gb of space for 5-8mins??

Hmm? Mistake or what? :O

[Filmfilm]

Usually when I FRAPS 2-3 hours sessions of PvE, it will use around 75-100gb.

This is on full screen (1920x1280). 30 fps, you won't need more then that for high quality movies.
So don't see how you get that estimate even with the config on 60 fps.

I usually compress it to Xvid aswell. Which I would recommend.
Just giving some friendly tips, not flaming or anything.
This is great guide. Keep up the good work! :-)

[Duplicity]

D: Wow, sorry, just realized that. I was typing up a quick guide. (Sorry. It's not copy and pasta'd :P)

I'll change it I missed over it. Thanks for the heads up.

Edited it. I give it a ROUGH estimate of 5-10GB now. Why did I add the 0. ( 1.5GB for 2Minutes of recording, roughly at 40FPS.)

[Filmfilm]

Size dosen't matter on quality if you are just uploading them to Youtube.
Because you are only allowed to upload 1gb and 10 minutes of film.
Most videos with 10 minutes runtime wont exceed 1gb, even at really high quality.

Just another thing you can add if you want to. :-)

[Duplicity]

Well, AVI is High Quality, thats why in Sony Vegas, you encode with Windows Media.

It's less memory, and faster to upload. Honestly, it's not worth uploading a 1GB file on youtube XD

[cooper101]

Nice might try +1 rep

[Danne206]

Nice, rep!

[Duplicity]

Thanks for the comments and feed back. Funny sometimes when people say +rep they never really give it XD

[l3luesummers]

Another great example relating to this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q305JvdMMUo&feature=channel_page&fmt=22

[Duplicity]

Another great example relating to this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q305JvdMMUo&feature=channel_page&fmt=22

There's tons of examples. Just none on MMOwned yet So I wrote this.

[Luximus]

A good guide for beginners, but I'd like to add and clarify on a few things.

1. If you want to record HD video in game you should have a powerful CPU and preferably a second hard drive to write the video files to (during recording).
   
2. If given the option, you would want to use Variable Bit Rate (VBR) or Average Bit Rate (ABR) for both audio and video.
   
3. If given the option, choose 2-pass encoding (for VBR or ABR). It will take more time (though probably not twice more), but it will give you better quality.
   
4. As far as I know, rendering time is only affected by the size (as in the number of pixels), length, and rendering quality of your video. It's unrelated to the bit rate or file size you choose. So you should expect the same amount of rendering time whether you encode your video at 1 Mbps or 6 Mbps.
   
5. As far as I know, rendering time is determined purely by the speed of your CPU, because all compression algorithms boil down to crunching a bunch of mathematical functions. Your GPU (graphics card) does not factor into this*. Quadro cards are only used in 3D rendering I think.
   
6. As the OP suggested, try use some other codecs, such as DivX, H.264. They should give you better quality if you use low bit rates. (At high bit rates you probably can't tell the difference anyway, though I like to point out that most of the high quality/HD videos you find on the Internet are encoded with DivX and H.264 rather than WMV 9/11)

* Note that I believe a number of developers are working on GPU-assisted video encoding (you've probably heard of CUDA on the newer nVidia cards), but the use of those products are beyond the scope of this guide.

[Duplicity]

Anyways, as Luximus said. You can do all of those. But, just note. Those are..for the SUPER high quality.

The method I do is basically for the quickest for youtube HD.

Sometimes, when I do a presentation, I would do the heavier encoding.

And, on a side note. The Quatro (CX) helps with encoding H.264. Primary on Adobe Premier. Doubt anyone would have a quatro here ;x. But, who knows.

[MabusPwns]

3 MBPS is enough.