How do you down size a vid on Vegas 10 Pro?

Larry Sunstone wrote on 8/20/2010, 4:37 PM
I know it's a stupid question, I can do it on other programs, but I don't know on this one.

I have a 30 minute video I edited and for some reason it's a whopping 6.5 gb!!!!!!!
Why is that video so big???
I filmed it on a sony hi-8. I did do a million edits, but 6.5 gb just blows my mind.

Any help would be appreciated.

Comments

rs170a wrote on 8/20/2010, 4:53 PM
Sounds like you rendered it to DV-AVI format so the size is as expected (approx. 13 GB/hr.).
Different render formats will give you different sizes so it all depends on what you want to do with the edited footage.

Mike
Larry Sunstone wrote on 8/20/2010, 5:12 PM
Yes it is dv avi, what should I put it on to make it much much smaller.

I remember a vid like this would be about 500mb give or take.
And the quality of those vids look the same as these dv avi vids, so I don't see a reason to have such a large file.

500mb would be at max quality, and then from there I can down size it but it would effect the quality.
That's what I'm looking for.

Thx
PeterWright wrote on 8/20/2010, 6:16 PM
If half an hour occupied just 500 Mb it must have been a compressed format - describe the steps you took to capture it.

DV avi is a good format for editing and maintaining quality BEFORE rendering to a more compressed display format such as MPEG2 for DVD.

The real point though, is that 6.5 Gb is nothing in these days whan a Terabyte HD (1000 Gb) costs less than $100.

When I started PC video editing, a 9 Gb SCSI HD cost $2000, so be grateful!
rs170a wrote on 8/20/2010, 6:48 PM
what should I put it on to make it much much smaller.

But what do you want to do with it?
DVD, email, ...?

edit - there is no Vegas 10 Pro.
Do you mean Movie Studio HD Platinum 10?

Mike
Larry Sunstone wrote on 8/21/2010, 11:09 AM
I found the answer online.

You hit "make movie" and then change the format.
Real Media "rm" is the smallest, that 1.5 gb video dropped down to about 15mb, but the quality was weak.

I wanted to share it online, 6.5 gb video online would take forever to download.

I ended up using mp4, this dropped the size to 44mb from 1.5 gb.
The quality was pretty good.
musicvid10 wrote on 8/21/2010, 11:13 AM
Larry,
You have a version of Vegas Movie Studio.
You are posting in the Vegas Pro forum, which is a different software.
You will get better responses by posting the the Vegas Movie Studio forum.
Good luck to you!