Rendering Giants

HeyMonte wrote on 3/1/2005, 1:56 PM
Alrite Here is my problem.....I'm sure noobs come here all the time expecting to have all there questions answered instantaneously...and I'm not going to lie it would be nice but ...I'm willing to do what ever it takes right about now.......Okay so I have been dabbling with my vegas video software and the other day I finished doing about a 6 minutes video and I saved it as an avi file....which came out 2 be like 900mb any of you guys know how I could possibly reduce this by a lot so I could fit more than about 30 seconds of video on 1 vcd?

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BillyBoy wrote on 3/1/2005, 2:03 PM
This forum produces some of the fastest replies of any forum anywhere. Stick around and confirm it for yourself.

If you're making a VCD, assuming you're not realy taking a data file, rather you want to burn a CD that's playable on a seperate DVD player hooked up to a TV or maybe some point in the future a DVD, you need to use the proper file format.

For a CD that would be MEPG-1. DVD = MPEG-2. Vegas comes with many templates. Picking the appropriate one along with file type determines the size of the resulting file.
Spot|DSE wrote on 3/1/2005, 2:04 PM
Go to Tools/Burn CD. In there you'll find a VCD template, and Vegas will render an MPEG 1 file.
You can also compress to MPEG 2 if you have the DVD Architect option for Vegas, or you can render to Windows Media.
Of course, there are other options too, but for VCD, it needs to be MPEG1.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 3/1/2005, 2:04 PM
If you <really> do want to have this as a VCD format... then you just have to select the menu option Tools/Burn CD/ Video CD.

That will render your timeline to an MPEG1 format appropriate for VCD players.

Not sure what you rendered to before. DV AVI Video (if that is what you started with... and rendered to) is 13GB per hour. So 6 minutes should have come out to 1.3GB. My guess is that you are rendering to a different format.
BillyBoy wrote on 3/1/2005, 2:06 PM
See, you got three replies in about ten minutes.

LOL!
HeyMonte wrote on 3/1/2005, 2:07 PM
well it wasn't 6 minutes exactly....and I'm running vegas 4...not 5
HeyMonte wrote on 3/1/2005, 2:11 PM
Okay I got that 2 work but It asks me 2 incert a cd...is there a way i can do this and save it somewhere on my computer?
BillyBoy wrote on 3/1/2005, 2:20 PM
My preferred method:

Render to MPEG using "render as..." from file menu. Giving the file an appropriate file name. This should not be confused with the program files ending in .VEG which only contain the information you made during editing.

Its a little different for DVD's. Vegas doesn't burn DVD's directly, but does create a compatiable file type which you can use in DVD Authoring software including Sony's.

You can also "print to tape" ... (using the AVI file format) pick the appropriate DV template and using a firewire connection between your PC and digital camera to make a DV tape or you can use a A/D converter like the Canopus.
Spot|DSE wrote on 3/1/2005, 2:41 PM
If you use the Tools/Burn CD/VCD option that Liam and I recommended, it will set up the file for you complete with autoplay, etc. It will also allow you to include a Media Player with your VCD in case the viewer doesn't have a player.
The system will render the file, and once that's done, you can keep going to the Tools/Burn CD/VCD option and reference the master/main file you rendered the first time. This will let you burn as many VCD's as you'd like without having to render each time, without having to set anything up each time.
In fact, if you have multiple burners, you can open multiple instances of Vegas and burn multiple VCDs at the same time.
HeyMonte wrote on 3/1/2005, 3:04 PM
Yes i Finally got it ....THank you guys sooooooo much