Can anyone help me with video editing please?

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As per title, note that's i'm a total editing noob and this is the 1st thing i've done.

Anyway, got myself a cheap Sanyo Xacti camera to mess about with. I've downloaded a trail version of Sony Vegas and had a quick look on YouTube for tutorials for adding slow-motion and things but when I upload the video to YouTube, the quality looks crap.

I had the Sanyo set to film at 1280 x 720 60FPS and my Vegas settings are as follows:

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This is what it looks like rendered with Sony Vegas at the above settings:


This is a a raw file from the camcorder that's not been touched:


Is there any way to get the best possible quality without all the background blur like on the original, raw file? I'm guessing that both my camera is crap and YouTube ruins the quality a bit but is Sony Vegas decent enough or should I be using things like Adobe After Effects or whatever it's called?

Thanks.
 
I think thats the best slo-mo you will get in vegas, try after effects or premier pro you will prolly be able to get a better effect.
 
Not sure that compression is really your problem there.

When you slow down your footage you don't increase the number of displayed frames, so the software is interpolating say 60 frames to fill the space of 120 in the rest of the footage so you will notice a quality difference, you need a faster film/shutter speed so you have more information to display at 60 fps, or you could film at 60 then display at 30, so you can slow down to 50% and maintain the same displayed frame rate without the software having to add anything.

As stufflol mentions you may get a better interpolation in After Effects of Premier Pro but you do pay for the privilege.
 
Correct, this is nothing to do with compression, but something to do with frame rates. The original file was 60fps and is getting crushed to 30fps, with fast moving parts of the video area some frames will get an 'average' of the two frames. I'm not familiar with Vegas, but are there any settings elsewhere for interpolation/pulldown to stop it creating these inbetween in this headache inducing manner?
 
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