Lost Video Island

KatieKat · Intermediate Vidder Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 32

Hey! My name's Kat!

Long time video watcher, first time vidder

I'm sure this has been asked a MILLION times before but I read through a few of the stickies, and I did a search but wasn't able to come up with anything. If there is an existing thread regarding this, or if it has been answered somewhere, you don't have to re-post it here. You can just post the link.

ANYWHO!

I've finally finished my vid. But now..the uploading part is my next task as a newbie

I thought that it would be as simple as saving my video, and uploading it somewhere. But of course, it's not that simple

I'm using SONY Vegas, so after I made the video I just saved it and thought that would be good. What do I have to do now? I'm going to upload to EZshare, and rapidshare, and probably youtube... but I don't know what I have to do to th video to prep it for uploading.

If anyone could help, that would be fabulous

And I apologize again if this has been brought up (which I know it has)

Aislynn · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:10 am Post subject:

Hey there, Kat! There's a lot of info about how to submit a vid to LVI here, particularly links to The Beginner's Page and Hobbes's Hosting Guide. That one in particular is an important one if you want to make sure that your vid is eligible to be voted on for a Council Pick and there are several hosting places that we won't accept (however they work great as a secondary link, just make sure to use one of our "approved" ones, YouTube is a great one!).

Also, for prepping the vid itself before you upload it, make sure that you've rendered it in addition to saving it. In other words, make sure that it's in the .WMV format, not just .VEG or .VF, which is the Vegas project file names. If you need help with rendering, feel free to ask!

Congrats on your first vid!

Hopefully we'll get to see it soon!

KatieKat · Intermediate Vidder Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 32

Aislynn · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:19 am Post subject:

We've got two great guides here at LVI, Polarbear's Vegas Guide and Steph's Vegas Guide that cover a lot of different Vegas topics. However, I'm not sure if they cover rendering.

Rendering is the same thing that's called "Save Movie As" in Windows Movie Maker. Basically, you click File -- Render As and use the pull-down menu under where you type in the file name to make sure that it's going to render into .WMV. Most of the time it will give you pretty good quality for not too big of a size but if it doesn't come out well, there are more settings you can change further into the Render As window.

Hopefully that all makes sense!

KatieKat · Intermediate Vidder Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 32

Aislynn · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:33 am Post subject:

KatieKat · Intermediate Vidder Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 32

That's so weird! In mine, it like SKIPS that option

This is what I see..

I"m two versions behind you also

So is "import media" the same as "render as"?

Aislynn · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:54 am Post subject:

Wow, that's just freaky that there's no "render as!"

Vegas 4.0 must have it hidden under some other name or calls it something else! In that case, I'd see what "Make Movie" does.

Vegas Movie Studio has that option as well but I've never used it so don't really know what it does. But it's worth a try, I'd say!

ETA: I just poked into the Help section of Movie Studio and asked about the Make Movie option and it says:

KatieKat · Intermediate Vidder Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 32

hahaha, yep that's right!
I did the SAME thing before I came back and read that

It's under "make movie". And it's rendering right now!
I'm so excited!

Thank you so so so much for you're help!
I hope it turns out okay

Aislynn · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:59 am Post subject:

Yay! You're very welcome!

I'm so glad that something worked!