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cimerron wrote on 9/2/2004, 6:41 AM
I bought Vegas Movie Studio + DVD and I have spent each day working to try to get my first video of our new child made. The features seam to be excellent. My frustration yesterday was when I was ready to make the video I clicked on Make Movie, burn to DVD. It spent at least 7 hours before it locked. I have 58 Gig of memory free. I then attempted to save it to my hard drive over night, and received an error message this morning there wassn't enough hard drive space. The video file seemed to grow to 55 GB. It is 70 minutes ot tape. Did something cause the file to grow? Is there a way to shrink it without effecting the quality. Is this normal for video newbees to have this much trouble with this program? I am disappointed I bought Vegas. My other choice was Pinnacle, and I have read about the frustrations with that one. I really want to stick with this hobby.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 9/2/2004, 6:44 AM
You are likely rendering to Uncompressed, which you manually had to have set. When you render, the default is NTSC DV, which is what you should be using. Just click "Make Movie" and use the wizard settings that are there.
You shouldn't be in the least disappointed you bought Vegas.
Hang in these forums, read the owners novel, use the Teach Me tools....and you'd have it.
Pinnacle not only sucks, it takes over your computer.
70 minutes of tape will take up approximately 15 gig of disc space once you render correctly.
cimerron wrote on 9/2/2004, 7:12 AM
What is the amount of time this should take to renender with a Pentium 4 2.8 ghz? Thanks for the encouragement.
Spot|DSE wrote on 9/2/2004, 7:19 AM
There isn't a way of predetermining render time. If you've mostly applied a few titles, transitions, and an overlay or two, should be about realtime, maybe a little faster. So, figure 70 mins to render a 70 min project. Again, based on complexity, it could go slower or faster.
Bottom line is, while it's frustrating to get started in this, and there is a LOT to learn about video, you couldn't have bought a better package for sub $500.00.
For Vegas Movie Studio, we're just now releasing a book, should be shipping in a couple weeks, that's aimed at beginning users of Vegas Movie Studio, and beginning to intermediate users of Vegas. Mostly screenshots, which seems to help a lot of folks figure things out.
There are lots of training resources, http://www.vasst.com/login.htm will get you to some of them, and link you to others. There is also a Vegas Movie Studio forum here on the Sony site as well.
LJR wrote on 9/9/2004, 1:07 PM
Pinnacle not only sucks, it takes over your computer.

Coo...that's interesting. I have Pinnacle LE and it hasn't taken over my computer, the world, or anything else for that matter.
Spot|DSE wrote on 9/9/2004, 1:29 PM
Studio alters registry settings. Depending on how you have Windows set up, it messes with your colors as well. Further, it tries to take over your files and where they play back.
Edition is worse. It shifts colors of the whole system. But hey! if you're happy with Pinnacle...by all means stick with it. It's the end product that counts most, not so much how you get there.
LJR wrote on 9/9/2004, 3:14 PM
"But hey! if you're happy with Pinnacle...by all means stick with it. It's the end product that counts most, not so much how you get there."

Agreed