Compression Question

NuOmegaAlpha wrote on 3/18/2004, 12:30 PM

I hope this doesn't sound too much like a newbie question, but when I render my short clips onto an AVI file -- they become INCREDIBLY large. I rendered a 3-minute video as an AVI and it turned out to be about 700 megs! How should I compress it wouthout losing the great quality? (I'm using a Canon GL2)

Comments

dvdude wrote on 3/18/2004, 12:41 PM

When doing the "render as" bit, pick a codec and settings in the drop down boxes on the panel. If you want the finished article to go back to tape, use a DV codec. If you want it to go to DVD, use the MainConcept MPEG-2 codec. Otherwise, use a codec compatible with your target medium.

Jsnkc wrote on 3/18/2004, 12:43 PM

Go with AVI NTSC-DV, that will be the same quality as when you captured your video (about 13GB / Hour)

Again it all depends on what you want to do with the video in the end. Web streaming, DVD, VCD, all of these things require diffrent foamts, bitrates, screen sizes etc...