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If you enable the 'Show message when inserting first video clip into the Timeline' option then VS will match the source video clip's properties. When rendering, use the 'Same as Project Settings' option which should give you the best possible output.Lobster_Emperor wrote: I've noticed that my video is exporting in a lower quality than the base I'm using
I have tried this, and I tested it again just to make sure, but it results in by far the worst quality output. Extremely pixely.
Difficult to compare the quality of these two photos when the first one is blown up to 3 times the size of the second one.Lobster_Emperor wrote: The output when selecting "Same as Project Settings" ... A shot of the same area in the preview.
Yeah sorry I couldn't get them to be the same dimensions, but neither image has had its dimensions increased. The first one is just so bad it looks like it's been blown up. Sorry I couldn't get even shots of both though. As for the file size, it was 4015KB, so hopefully the amount of compression on it is super obvious. Incredibly pixilated. Both are 1920 x 1080 clips. But rwernyei's method of unticking smart render and hardware acceleration seemed to fix the problem.
Unticking these worked. Just in case, I tried "Same as Project Setting" and got a 4061KB video that looked far better than the picture I posted in the forums, but still quite compressed. Changing to my shown profile from the default profile it chose (MPEG-4 AVC 1920 x 1080, 100p, 30Mbps) didn't seem to make a difference, but did for some reason result in a far smaller file size (38451KB for "default profile" vs 25449KB for custom profile) with no noticeable difference in quality. Thank you very much for the help, it seems that unticking those settings did the jobrwernyei wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 8:10 pm You might want to give this a try. Since you've had better success with your template, try unticking both Smart Render and Hardware Acceleration and use Native encoder instead of NVIDIA CUDA. Check results. If not any better try as tletter suggested and use "Same as Project Setting" with the same three changes.
No it's not "super obvious", as file size isn't the be-all and end-all, rather you need to give the actual properties of your source clip and rendered video. One way to get those properties in VS is to right-click on a clip and select the Properties option. You might find these properties help you to see what's going on.Lobster_Emperor wrote: As for the file size, it was 4015KB, so hopefully the amount of compression on it is super obvious. Incredibly pixilated. Both are 1920 x 1080 clips.