Help Please - Rendering Problem

kengehrke wrote on 10/14/2004, 9:35 PM

For some reason, when I render my DV video to put in on a DVD, the rendering takes about an hour for a 10 minute clip, and the clip is almost 2 gig's in size. I am rendering as AVI with best quality. Is there something I can change in order to compress the size while maintaining the picture quality?

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wolfbass wrote on 10/14/2004, 9:46 PM

To burn your AVI file onto DVD, you are using the DVD as a storage medium only. To Author a DVD you need to render MPEG2.

It's a different process. Authoring the DVD means it can be played in a DVD player, merely storing the AVI file on a DVD means you need a PC to play it.

Hope that is simple enough to help you.

There are other guys (probably asleep right nowa) that could explain it better.

A

rs170a wrote on 10/14/2004, 9:49 PM

Render speed depends on your CPU speed.
2 gigs is about right for a 10 min. avi clip.
Don't worry about the file size because, once it's converted to MPEG-2 (what a DVD needs/uses), it'll shrink by a factor of approximately 10:1.
BTW, if you have DVD Architect, render to MPEG-2 directly from the timeline and save the extra render step.

Mike