To get the best quality for your videos, you need to record in the highest quality possible....

Recording Programs
>Pinnacle Studio 12 or 14
>Windows Movie Maker

Pinnacle Studio 12 or Pinnacle Studio 14 is best used for the capture cards of Dazzle's....when you first open pinnacle and click "Make Movie" your amount of space should be at 100GB or over 100GB+ if it's at the amount then you should be allowed to record in the Highest Quality for your Dazzle.... The lower the memory the lower the quality

If you have any troubles leave a comment and I will try my best to get back with the most helpful response possible

How To Check Your Memory
>Click "Start"
>Click "My Computer"
>Rigt Click your "C DRIVE" and click "Properties"
>It will tell you your "Amount of Space Taken" and your "Amount of Free Space"
>Look at your free space and if it's over 100GB you're clear to go, just go straight down to the "sony Vegas 9.0 Section"

If not keep reading, the only way.... the last resort is to get a "EXTERNAL HARDDRIVE" once you have that move some of the documents that take up LARGE amounts of space onto that external harddrive and then clean up your "internal harddrive" and then you should be clear to go!

If you have any troubles leave a comment on the post and I will try my hardest to respond with the best possible answer!

-Zack

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So first off there's some things you need to know about Sony Vegas 9.0....

1. You must have a sufficient amount of space on your computer.... for your computer to run perfectly clean you need *80-100gigabytes* of space on your INTERNAL HARDDRIVE if it is an EXTERNAL HARDDRIVE then your computer will run slow unless you move files to the external to clean out your internal.

2. You must understand the video type you're working with [i](Ex: If you are working with an .AVI file to shrink the file you must render it into a .WMV file then things will run a bit smoother)

3. Before you render it into a .WMV you must get the black bars out of your screen by hitting the "Pan/Crop Tool" then remove the vertical and horizontal black bars so your video goes full screen.

4. After you're done "Panning and Cropping" it's time to render!

These are my settings for HD Clips

>Click "File"
>Click "Render As"
>Make the "Save As Type" Windows Media Video V9 (*.wmv)
>Then click "Custom"
>Name the template
>Make the "Video rendering quality: Best"
>Then at the bottom click the "Video" tab
>Make the "Mode: Quality VBR"
>Make the "Format: Windows Media Video V9"
>Make the "Image Size: High Definition (1280 x 720)
>Make the "pixel aspect ratio: 1.333 (HD 1080) if that doesn't work then 1.000 (Square)
>Make the "Frame Rate: 29.970 (NTSC) with 3 seconds per frame
>Make the quality whatever you want test it out

Once you've done all of those (yes I know it's alot but it's beautiful in the end) click "OK"then click "SAVE" and it should start your render, just let it sit while it's rendering don't mess with anything else or it might mess something up and make it lag, or could cancel the render and make you have to start over... after that go on youtube upload a video and you can take your .WMV file and import and let that upload... while it's uploading again don't touch anything or it could possibly mess up the render!


**IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGUARDING THIS POST LEAVE A COMMENT AND I WILL RESPOND WITH THE BEST POSSIBLE ANSWER THANKS.**

****SPECIAL THANKS TO TTG_CHASE****

-Zack