best render format for archiving?

L8R wrote on 10/2/2009, 1:00 PM
running into an issue here.
I use to do a final render of my wedding highlight videos in .avi so that I can string them together in the future for a demo reel for the wedding shows. No Problem.
However now in version 9 when I go to save as .avi - 1440x1080 60i - uncompressed. The 12 minute file is now 160 gigs from where it use to be around 6 gigs maybe.
I've rendered this clip about 6 times now using all different codecs.. I can't find one that saves it as a smaller size, smaller bitrate but is still in full 1440x1080 60i.
Should I be saving it as something else? Mp4? M2t?
I just don't want any recompression when I string them together and rerender the bunch together as I am putting this to blu-ray when I do that?
Can anyone help?
Todd

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