Project render is way too BIG!!!

islandertek wrote on 10/26/2009, 2:36 PM

Hello!! I am desperately looking for advice and help!!! PLEASE!! Ha Haaa!!

Ok.....I have a project that is (1 hour and 40 minutes) long in Vegas Studio 9. When I go to render it in a "WMV" format, it says it will be 22 gigs!! (22gig) That's without the audiotracks!!! I just purchsed a new iMac because my PC crashed!! (I know, venturing over to the dark side!!) I would like to render the project in a format that MAC can read so I can finish it with Final Cut and print it on DVD with iDVD on my MAC.

How can I render my project from my PC in the best possible quality picture and format that will still fit on a standard 4.6 gig DVD, and be recognized by a MAC???

I appreciate all feedback and any help!!! Thanks!!

Cheers!!
-Nick

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 10/26/2009, 3:12 PM

The size is all about the bitrate. Lower bitrates result in smaller files. However, WMV is a very bad transfer format so don't use it. For that matter the finished DVD will be MPEG2 at a lower bitrate anyway.

I suggest rendering to DV .avi. This file will be about 13GB/hour, but it doesn't matter. iDVD will encode it to MPEG2 which is required for DVDs. 1 hour and 40 minutes will be about 5.8Mbps video and 192Kbps audio, which is fairly decent quality, as long as iDVD has a decent MPEG encoder.

On the other hand, you could author the DVD in DVD Architect and use the pretty good MPEG encoder that it has, instead of the possibly crappy one included in iDVD.