Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
I've been disappointed with the quality of my edited FPV racing videos, the original camera footage always looks better than the final edit on youtube.
I'd put this down to youtube/compression/rendering etc but realised with some help from Jab1a that it was a lot to do with the default settings on Sony Movie Studio, the home version of Vegas I am using, and is fixable.
The important thing is when importing clips, before you render you need to select clip properties and untick maintain aspect ratio and select disable resampling, these two settings will prevent each frame being blended with its neighbours and made fuzzy. To save doing this clip by clip, I change settings on first clip on timeline, copy that clip then ctrl-A to select all clips and right click - paste event attributes - this applies change to all clips.
Also, the default settings for Sony Stabilise are far too aggressive, causing massive cropping, and quality issues, however if you dial this right down the results are actually pretty good.
This footage is from Runcam HD as it was a nice clip, but the exact same process works great on Mobius C footage, the wider lenses are an advantage as you don't notice the cropping from stabilising as much as on Mobius A lens.
I've run our last race video through 0.1 stabilisation, which I think looks noticably better: youtube.com/watch?v=4jgzW2QZdl0
I use Sony Movie Studio, but all editing packages have stabilisation, and most allow you to adjust the level so I would try reducing this way down from default and check results for yourself.
Hope this is useful
I've been disappointed with the quality of my edited FPV racing videos, the original camera footage always looks better than the final edit on youtube.
I'd put this down to youtube/compression/rendering etc but realised with some help from Jab1a that it was a lot to do with the default settings on Sony Movie Studio, the home version of Vegas I am using, and is fixable.
The important thing is when importing clips, before you render you need to select clip properties and untick maintain aspect ratio and select disable resampling, these two settings will prevent each frame being blended with its neighbours and made fuzzy. To save doing this clip by clip, I change settings on first clip on timeline, copy that clip then ctrl-A to select all clips and right click - paste event attributes - this applies change to all clips.
Also, the default settings for Sony Stabilise are far too aggressive, causing massive cropping, and quality issues, however if you dial this right down the results are actually pretty good.
This footage is from Runcam HD as it was a nice clip, but the exact same process works great on Mobius C footage, the wider lenses are an advantage as you don't notice the cropping from stabilising as much as on Mobius A lens.
I've run our last race video through 0.1 stabilisation, which I think looks noticably better: youtube.com/watch?v=4jgzW2QZdl0
I use Sony Movie Studio, but all editing packages have stabilisation, and most allow you to adjust the level so I would try reducing this way down from default and check results for yourself.
Hope this is useful
