Rendered file is too big

ggilman wrote on 2/1/2011, 5:42 PM
I captured 60 minutes of video from my Canon HV-20 and the resulting AVI file was 13 GB. I imported this into Vegas and deleted all but the first five minutes. I rendered this as a "Main Concept MPEG2". The problem is that the resulting file is also 13GB even though it is ony five minutes. vs. 60. What am I doing wrong?

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/1/2011, 5:57 PM
Actually, that MPEG should be about 3 or 4 gigs long, so this is very strange!

Have you previewed the MPEG to see if for some reason you maybe created a much longer file with lots of blank space at the end or something?
ggilman wrote on 2/2/2011, 2:04 PM
I also tried creating a WMV file and when I opened that with Windows Media Player there was the five minutes that I want followed by 55 minutes of nothing; i.e. WMP thought the video lasted an hour.

What I did was to set the cursor on the time line at the five minute point, did a split, and then deleted the segment for five minutes to the end. Is there something I need to do to get rid of this blank segment in the rendered file?
Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/2/2011, 3:11 PM
I'm not sure why your program thinks your project is 55 minutes longer than it is. There may be a clip or two way down the line, left over from some early editing.

If you can't find any, you can always just drag to select the portion of the timeline you want to output and, after you select Make Movie, select the option to output the Loop Region only.
Eugenia wrote on 2/2/2011, 3:50 PM
Yeah, he probably forgot some clips at the end of the timeline.
ritsmer wrote on 2/3/2011, 12:27 AM
@ ggilman: just press the GoToEnd button or press Ctrl+End and the cursor will jump to the end of your timeline. Then you can see what causes your "problem".
It might not be some media clip - even a marker can do it.
richard-amirault wrote on 2/3/2011, 4:43 AM
Yes but ... even if he rendered the *entire* file by accident ... how can the mp2 version be the same size ( 13Gig ) as the AVI version?
Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/3/2011, 5:53 AM
As we've said, MPEGs are usually about 1/5 the size of AVIs -- so you're likely rendering a project that's about 5 times as long as your original video (even though much of it is just black).