Rendering/Compressing Problems & Pics washed out!

greyA wrote on 4/4/2009, 1:46 PM
Hello,

I have been rendering/saving my video/slide-show and the first time I did it I think it was uncompressed and it came out to be 1.3 gig. It's only a video and audio track with some pics and text over top that last about 5 min. so it shouldn't be that big. So I tried some other formats and every other format it comes out "sticky" when you play it. Like it goes from frame to frame because it is freezing. I got it down to 182 MEG and it was "sticky" (not a smooth video). I'm wondering how I can get it to be a smooth best quality video and also not have this problem with it going from one frame to another - freezing the frames.

Also, another thing... The 1.3 gig uncompressed version seemed to work okay, but the video comes out much, much brighter than when in the studio player - before rendering. The pictures end up being washed out.

Can you please, please help me with these two things? (Saving it and how to make the pics so they are not washed out - or at least just like they are exactly when in the studio.)

THank you!

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richard-amirault wrote on 4/4/2009, 2:37 PM
We need more information.

There is no need to "render" until you have finished editing. You wern't clear if you have finished.

What do you want to do with this video when you are done?
greyA wrote on 4/5/2009, 11:39 AM
Hello,

Thanks for the quick response.

I have finished editing completely and I want to save this to my hard drive and then burn it onto a DVD disk.

The first time I saved it to my hard drive I did it as an .avi file and used the default template. It is only 5 min long and only has a video and audio track with some pics and text over top and it came out to be 1.3 gig. I initially thought that the only problem was the size of the file and so it would just need to be compressed, but then I noticed all the pics are washed out (whited out).

So I tried better quality settings to fix the white-out (washed out pics) problem and I used a compression mode and I got it down to 180 Meg (still pretty big) but it was sticking and freezing when it was played. I tried another one and it came out to 30 gig!!!! ... it was also freezing and sticking.

So basically I just want to know how to properly render this so I can have it completely finished and on my hard drive to burn to DVD. I tried to burn to DVD from the "make movie" mode, but it said I didn't have the plug-in. I thought that was strange because I have all the plug-ins! (I've yet to put a burning software on my computer yet though.)

So I'm looking to fix the problem of the pics being washed out and the problem of the size so big. I would, however, rather have a larger file in exchange for better quality.

Also - why would anyone want to render the work before the editing was complete? Is that to view what is done so far? I guess the settings would be different knowing it doesn't have to be great quality and burned to DVD or whatever?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you!