Please help- urgent render question!!

memory maker wrote on 11/9/2006, 10:00 PM
I have been trying to render a short video in Vegas 7: a photo montage of 110 pics, about 11 minutes long, in avi. I just rendered it and it came out in 6 different movies, all 3.98 gig, and each only 1-2 minutes long!!! How can a 2 minute clip render to 4 gig? What in the world am I doing wrong? I need to make a huge photo montage and was going to render it in sections of avi renders, but I would need a HUGE hard drive to store that many 4 gig movies!!! Please help if you can! Thanks!

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GlennChan wrote on 11/9/2006, 10:13 PM
Perhaps you are using the no codec option, which will give you very large files. Other codecs like DV will give you smaller files sizes (albiet with some compression).

If you need to get work done, the DV codec is not a bad idea.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 11/9/2006, 10:15 PM
You need to select NTSC DV or something like that. under the drop down box of selecting windows avi, you will see a second box, NTSC DV will be what you're looking for unless you're doing widescreen in which case you'd want to pick NTSC DV Widescreen.

Dave

Also, if you're doing the batch render script and you select avi, it's at the very bottom of the list of avi's I think, or close to it.
UlfLaursen wrote on 11/9/2006, 10:16 PM
Hi,

It depends on the codec you are using. Normaly standard DV in AVI will give aprox. 13 GB at one hour - that means 2 min. would give arround 430 MB.

What is your projectsettings?
Which setting do you use to render?

The 4 GB filesize could have something to do with the disk being formatted at FAT32 instead of NTFS - NTFS is better imho.

Are you going to burn a DVD or how would you present the photomontage?

/Ulf
memory maker wrote on 11/10/2006, 4:14 AM
how do I reformat to NFTS instead of FAT32? My project settings are as follows:Template: NTSC DV; Good, Gaussian, Blend Fields; (is this what you are looking for when asking fro projedt settings? Forgive me for my beginner status!) For rendering I used default template (uncompressed) and avi. How do I find out if the codec I am using is standard DV? This is a crazy project - the end result is a family history of slides set to music- over 1200 slides! That is why I wanted to render in sections and put it all together in the end. Do you find this feasible, or do you have any other suggestions? I realize that this will be more than a 2 hour production when all is said and done, but this is what the customer wants! If you get a chance to reply I really appreciate it!
memory maker wrote on 11/10/2006, 4:17 AM
One more thing: in my preferences I have the box checked that says "ignore 3rd party codecs" and the box that says "use microsoft dv codec" is not checked. Is this best- it was the default setting. Thanks!!!
rs170a wrote on 11/10/2006, 4:29 AM
For rendering I used default template (uncompressed) and avi.

As mentioned earlier, using the uncompressed option is what's giving you the huge file size. Select NTSC ( or PAL) DV instead and you'll see your file size drop dramatically.

Mike
memory maker wrote on 11/10/2006, 4:46 AM
Thank you, thank you!