Render Video Size

srags wrote on 8/18/2011, 10:14 AM

When I try to render a video in 24p HD, the file size is enormously big. More than my harddrive can even take. Is there a way to compress the file size while retaining the same quality? Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!

This is VMS 10 Platinum HD by the way.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/18/2011, 10:16 AM

What format are you rendering to? AVI? MPEG? M2T? AVC?

Hi-def M2Ts are about 12 gigabytes per hour of video.

If you haven't got at least 20-30 gigabytes of free space on your hard drive at all times, you need a bigger hard drive.

srags wrote on 8/18/2011, 10:22 AM

Trying to render to AVI.

It's only a seven minute video file and it's saying the estimated size is 60 GB. That seems unusually high or is that actually normal?

musicvid10 wrote on 8/18/2011, 11:47 AM

"That seems unusually high or is that actually normal? "

If you are rendering to AVI Uncompressed (which you are), that file size is normal.
However, rendering to AVI Uncompressed is not normal, because it is not a delivery format, and it is not playable.

So, if your goal is to play back your video when it is done, you would render to a compressed format, MPEG-2, MP4, and WMV being but a few examples.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/18/2011, 3:12 PM

Or even a DV-AVI, an AVI using standard DV compression.

wmgeorge wrote on 8/26/2011, 10:04 AM

FYI New Egg and Microcenter 1 TB hard drives are around $50 or so on sale. I'm sure for doing rendering they are not good or fast enough, but storage.

Chienworks wrote on 8/26/2011, 4:46 PM

They're probably more than fast enough. Rendering almost never writes the output file at even a fraction of the speed that the drive is capable of handling.