In an earlier post, I went into detail about the settings I used in Sony Vegas to get my videos to properly render to fit the new widescreen format.

Well, I thought I’d post again about this matter because I have discovered a far easier way to do it, and the quality is actually better. Like I said in the old post, I am far from being the authority on video editing/rendering, but I know a lot of you are having trouble getting your videos to look right in the new widescreen format.

This new method tends to take some time to render (depending on the speed of your processor), but it works like a charm.

• Change resolution in project properties (under the file menu) to the HDV 720-30p (1280×720 29.970 fps) preset.
• Go to “Render as” and select Windows Media Video V9 (.wmv) from the pulldown menu.
• From the “template” pulldown menu, select “4.8Mbps HD 720-24p Video”.
• Render!

I know the first how-to instructions (in the earlier post) were painfully and unnecessarily complicated. This new method should make it a breeze for you to get your videos to appear correctly if you’re using Sony Vegas as your editing software.

Unfortunately, Vegas is the only video editing software that I’m familiar with, so I can’t help you out if you’re using something else. However, I’m guessing the steps needed to be completed in other applications to achieve the same result are probably pretty similar.