How to reduce the final size of a rendered file?

Mike_the_Insane wrote on 5/4/2004, 11:12 AM

I've got a large project that I need to render as one file and burn to a DVD. I tried rendering it as an MPEG-2 file using the standard settings, and it came out to be 4.47 GB. When I put it in a DVD Architect project, the project size was 5.1 GB, too big for a 4.7 GB DVD+R. Is there a way to render the Vegas project at a slightly lower quality so that it can fit on the DVD? For general information, the project is about 100 minutes long, and I'm using Vegas 4.0 and DVD Architect 1.0.

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GaryKleiner wrote on 5/4/2004, 11:20 AM

> I tried rendering it as an MPEG-2 file using the standard settings<

Then you need to click on the custom button if encoding in Vegas, or Optomize in DVDA, and set the bit rate a 'bit' lower.

Gary

Mike_the_Insane wrote on 5/4/2004, 11:31 AM

Ok... now if I change it through custom in Vegas, it has options for variable or constant bit rate. Is one better than the other? Also, if I'm reducing the variable bit rate, do I change the maximum, the minimum, the average, or all three?

JohnnyRoy wrote on 5/4/2004, 1:18 PM

You want to use Variable Bit Rate and you only need to change the Average(bps). I would try somewhere between 5,800,000 bps and 5,500,000 bps. It depends on whether or not you add lots of motion menus or not because all of the content as to fit in 4.7GB.

~jr