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Freshbrew wrote on 12/19/2007, 11:29 AM
This may be a stupid question, but I just switched from Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus to Vegas Studio Premium or whatever it's called 8.0 and so far I am very impressed. But I have a question. In Studio I did not need to resize my jpegs for still movies. Is this something I need to do for Vegas. I read through a lot of the posts and saw some reference to resizing the pics, but one post advised that the VMS7 and VMS8 didn't need to do this. Is this true? I am working on a project with numerous (read prob 100) stills and will run prob 40-50 minutes. Will this be an issue? Thanks! By the way, I am impressed with the help available over the forums and the lack of flaming that goes on here!

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Chienworks wrote on 12/19/2007, 11:47 AM
If you have lots of really large pictures then Vegas may get bogged down. Try it with the pictures the way they are now though and see how it goes. Vegas can process the pictures no matter what size they are, but it may run out of RAM if you have too many that are too large. 100 images at 1200x900 is probably fine. 100 of them at 4800x3600 is probably too much. Avoid using TIFF as Vegas uses QuickTime for decoding TIFF images and that slows things down a lot. PNG and JPG are the preferred formats.
Freshbrew wrote on 12/19/2007, 11:52 AM
Thanks a lot. I just rendered a portion of the movie but it won't play the video in my Windows media player. I get the audio, but no video. Weird. But it completed the render without hanging up, so I guess it works okay. Kinda weird I can't see the video though.
Eugenia wrote on 12/19/2007, 1:46 PM
It depends how you exported out. Export as WMV.
Freshbrew wrote on 12/19/2007, 2:56 PM
Okay thanks!
Chienworks wrote on 12/19/2007, 3:25 PM
Eugenia, i'm curious as to why you recommend WMV when the end purpose of the project hasn't even been mentioned. If it's going to DVD then the export should be to MPEG2. If it's going to tape then it should probably be DV .avi. WMV would be a poor choice for either of those ends.
Eugenia wrote on 12/19/2007, 4:31 PM
I mentioned WMV because the guy is trying to play it back on WMP. Chances are he's trying to export for youtube or for his personal PC viewing pleasure. If he was trying to make a DVD or archive it, he would burn first, or use a DVD player. Of course, he needs to elaborate, but according to the data so far, I would just go with the WMP suggestion.