Rendering/Compression of video for Quicktime

Ecclesia wrote on 1/14/2008, 6:37 PM
Hello Everyone,
I amnewbie to Vegas Movie Studio. I am trying to render a 30 minute video into a quicktime movie to be played on a local public access station. I was able to render the file as uncompressed but it would take about 3 hours to upload off of my external hard drive to the TV stations equipment. I need help with compressing the file properly, so I can upload it quicker and still keep the quality as high as possible. Please let me know what settings, etc. everything should be on.

Dell PC
AMD Athlon

Thanks!

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 1/14/2008, 6:45 PM
The kind of quicktime that Vegas supports is not for "user-oriented" playback reasons. It only supports the "intermediate" kind of quicktime, not the "delivery" one.

The only "delivery"-grade codec (that allows some customization) VMS supports is just WMV. Please export using WMV instead. Press "custom" and modify the exporting options to match your source footage.
Ecclesia wrote on 1/15/2008, 9:54 AM
If the TV station is only using Macs and Quicktime will I be able to upload the WMV file?
Eugenia wrote on 1/15/2008, 1:25 PM
I don't know, ask them. :D
Ecclesia wrote on 1/15/2008, 2:51 PM
What I meant to ask was do you know if a Mac computer can read a WMV file?
Ecclesia wrote on 1/15/2008, 2:51 PM
What I meant to ask was do you know if a Mac computer can read a WMV file?
Eugenia wrote on 1/15/2008, 4:01 PM
They will have to download the freeware "Flip4Mac", it is not supported by default. http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm
Chienworks wrote on 1/15/2008, 5:55 PM
Not sure if the studio version will have this or not, but take a look ...

File / Render, choose QuickTime (*.mov) as the save as type. For the template choose Default (uncompressed). Click the Custom button. In the Video tab choose the following settings:
- Frame size: NTSC DV (720x480)
- Frame rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
- Field order: Lower field first
- Pixel aspect ratio: 0.909
- Video format: DV/DVCPRO-NTSC
- - in the Configure button choose interlaced and 4:3
- Compressed depth: 24 bpp color
- Quality: High 100%

Under Audio use these settings:
- Audio format: Uncompressed
- Sample rate (HZ): 48,000
- Bit depth: 16
- Channels: Stereo

Those settings should produce a DV Quicktime file that is broadcast ready. That is, they shouldn't have to do anything to it before it goes out over the air. It will be much better than WMV.

Now, I was assuming that the station is in North America and is broadcasting 4:3 SD video. If you're in Europe or elsewhere you chould choose PAL instead of NTSC wherever mentioned above. If your video is widescreen then choose 16:9 instead of 4:3.