AVI file very large

mothvillage wrote on 12/5/2010, 3:02 AM

I have a movie file in avi format about 1GB in size. I am using this software to add more audio. When i try to complete the movie the file size for avi is around 100GB. I have tried changing the settings to a lower quality but basically the file is still huge.

Is there a setting to leave the video file the way it is and only add the audio? I am not trying to change the quality of the video file at all. The audio file is not that large, something like 50MB. So far I have been able to combine those two file and use the WMV container but I would rather use AVI.

Thanks

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 12/5/2010, 4:24 AM

How long is the file?

You're probably rendering to uncompressed, which typically results in Gigabytes per minute. If you want to keep the file small you have to choose a compression codec. AVI defaults to no compression. Your original file obviously used some codec that resulted in about 100:1 compression.

Note that "quality" settings have very little to do with the file size. Those specify how much care Vegas will take to reproduce the image as best as it can and should always be set to maximum regardless of how tiny a file you're trying to produce.

MSmart wrote on 12/5/2010, 9:09 AM

You're probably rendering to uncompressed,

That's what it sounds like. Don't change the Render As/Make Movie template to "Default Template (uncompressed)" leave it the same as your project properties.