Huge File

fosko wrote on 8/27/2001, 3:20 PM
I was playingaround with VV and had about 30 .jpgs of a girlfriend I was going to put together with a music track behind as sort of a video slide show. each jpg ran for about 5 seconds with some nice trasitions behind them. When I went to save as a Video (avi) file, the thing wound up being about 4 gigs. WOW !!!
I guess I could use some sortof slide show creator, but I kind of wanted to sync certain pics to specific lyrics.

intersging, I'm relatively new to Vegas. I guess I'll haveto save in some other format . . producing inferior quality ???

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SonyEPM wrote on 8/27/2001, 3:27 PM
You likely saved as uncompressed avi, which would result in the huge file size.

Try saving as avi using the DV NTSC template (you can print this to tape or re-use it in a Vegas project)

OR

output to .wmv (Windows Media) for web/cd distribution.
fosko wrote on 8/27/2001, 3:43 PM
yeah . .that was my thought . .put it opn web or CD. But if I do it thatway . .Do they need Microsofts Media player to view it ?
DaveP wrote on 8/27/2001, 4:41 PM
You would need the Windows Media Player or another application that is comprable (Real Player, Quicktime). Although needing the Windows Media Player should not be a concern if the person that you are giving it to is using Windows since the Media Player is installed with Windows by default.
Cheesehole wrote on 8/27/2001, 7:26 PM
I've been doing very similar projects to yours and have found a few good delivery formats for slide shows with music.

Slide shows are surprisingly difficult to encode using most of the compressors out there. This is because the compressors are optimized for motion video. They fall apart when it comes to still frames with transitions.

For high quality slide shows that you can put on a CD-ROM, Windows Media 8 works the best. Neither WM7 or WM6 could handle slide shows correctly. Sometimes slides would stick, and the compression would get all screwed up. Anyone who says otherwise, please do some serious experiments. I'm confident you'll find that WM8 is the only microsoft compressor that can handle a slideshow with transitions and music bigger than 320x240 at high bitrates (1000+). The problem with WM8 is you have to use the command line WM8 encoder (free download from Microsoft) which is a little difficult to use if you are not used to getting around using the command line.

DV works great if that's an option for you. You get the highest quality out of DV. You can stick it on a video if you want.

MPEG-2 (for DVD or mini-DVD) also can work very well, but it takes some tweaking. MPEG-2 is highly optimized for MOTION and not for still frames. If you put a noise filter on your footage (Median filter in Vegas with at least 0.008) and you use TMPGEnc (free download from net) to compress your footage, you can get excellent results. Forget about the Ligos MPEG thing that comes with Vegas.

If you want details about any of these methods, just ask.
fosko wrote on 8/27/2001, 10:43 PM
OK I tried saving to Windoes Media file (.asf)but when I play it in Media layer I just get Audio.

????