Sony Vegas Pro Render Quality

[Savage_Titan]

Quick question about Sony Vegas Pro 13. When you're uploading a video to Youtube you can either select normal render quality or higher, what exactly is the difference. I know higher render quality makes the file size go up nearly 10 times, but how much does it affect the look of the video. Also I'm recording in 720p

 

[kenrivers]

Have you tried rendering a short clip using normal render quality and then rendering the file again with higher settings? If not, try it and see if you can tell a difference in quality between the two. It could be that the higher settings do 2 pass VBR rendering whereas the normal render may only do a single pass. It also could be the normal render does not use the maximum quality setting when it renders.