Movie File Size Increase

GerryS wrote on 6/27/2006, 7:52 PM

I captured an analog 8mm Camcorder clip to a DV AVI file, using the ADVC 50 card. The clip was about 4 minutes long and the resulting AVI file size about 1GB. I did some cutting (cleaning up) of the clip and then changed brightness and contrast, since the DV files always seem to be darker than the original analog file. (Is this normal?) Then I rendered the resulting edited (grouped) clip as another AVI file. The resulting file now is ten times as large, i.e. 10 GB. What is going on here? I want the resulting edited file to be an AVI (DV?) file of the same size.
Please advise what I am doing wrong or what the limitations of the Sony Vegas Movie Studio program are and what I can do to correct this. I do not want to compress the file. As you might have noticed, I am a beginner at this.

Thanks for your help,

Gerhard

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ForumAdmin wrote on 6/27/2006, 8:57 PM

You likely used the AVI default template for your render, which is uncompressed. As you've observed, your resulting files are huge.

Instead choose the NTSC DV template after you've selected the AVI format, and then render. For those of you in PAL-land, use the PAL DV template.

Don't worry, though the Sony DV codec yields compressed files, you'll get great results even if you need to round-trip a number of times. See the following thread for info:

How good is the Vegas codec with respect to multiple rendering?