More Render Control?

garo wrote on 12/28/2003, 3:07 AM

hhhhhmmmmmm, when rendering, say, a 10 minute project as a Multimedia file directly onto a CD you can choose Uncomppresed .avi but that wouldn't fit onto the CD = 1.4 gig or say 3 mps but that only gets you 149 megs - there's LOTS more room on the CD so something inbetween would be great.
Suggestions?

TIA! Gerrie
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Comments

farss wrote on 12/28/2003, 3:35 AM

I'm assuming you're trying to make a CD which can be played on a PC?
If that's the case then you could use mpeg-1, most things can play that or WMV. Either of those give you a choice of frame rate, frame size and bit rate for both audio and video. Adjust these depending upon desired quality of video and audio in keeping with how much will fit on a CD.

Hope this helps.

theigloo wrote on 12/28/2003, 3:36 AM

Choose a DV codec for your .avi render. That will give you the exact file size as if you had just captured off your camera.

Don't confuse what you get off you camera with 'uncompressed'. It is compressed. I'm pretty sure the DV standard is compressed 5:1. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Uncompressed is serious stuff. Only use it when you want to render one track to another with zero loss. If you are at your final product, DV is great. There will be some small losses, but you likely won't notice it.

If you can't tollerare any loss, try rendering to uncompressed and then zipping it. The zip process will get you non-trivial compression.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/28/2003, 6:12 AM

Also, if you're going to play off the CD, remember that CD's only transfer so fast. 1x is 150KBs. So, for a descent video you need about 3000-5000 KBs. That's between a 20x and 40x read speed. But... the speed on the CD drive is the FASTED read speed. So, the viewer would need a 52x speed or fster to probley watch the movie OK.

But, this is only if you plan to view off CD. :) if you're transfering ignore it.