Hello everyone,
I went to Costa Rica and took a trip along the coast of the Nicoya Peninsula videoing all their wonderful beaches and all kinds of gorgeous vistas. Something I wanted to do for a long time! The result is a Vegas Pro 12 project, 2: 15’ long (135 minutes long).
The rendering? Easy!... VP12 took a look at my AVCHD / MTS movies and suggested using format: HD 1080-60i (1920x1080, 29.970 fps) and I ended up using: HD 1080-60i YUB (1920x1080, 29.970 fps).
I made a 5 minutes video test and it produced a video (.avi) 36,479,725 KB or 36GB!!!! Long. That means that my 135’ video would occupy almost a full TB disk drive…. Which regardless how beautiful it may be, it is impractical in every way for my purposes.
This video is not for professional purposes, but important enough to keep around for a while and showing it to some of my friends.
In your experience – you guys with more experience than I – is there a way to reduce the size of this video without reducing its quality to sh**… say, by a third. Say 5 minutes = 10 GB or 270GB for 135 minutes? Even 300GB total, would be acceptable
Another way of asking the same question is, how can I keep as much quality as possible but at a much lower video size? Obviously reducing the size from 1920 x 1080 to something smaller like [800 x 600], has to be an option, and it would be fine with me.
Oh, by the way, I am referring to a video I can store/carry in the HD of a computer, like my laptop (no interested in putting it on disk or online)
TIA
I went to Costa Rica and took a trip along the coast of the Nicoya Peninsula videoing all their wonderful beaches and all kinds of gorgeous vistas. Something I wanted to do for a long time! The result is a Vegas Pro 12 project, 2: 15’ long (135 minutes long).
The rendering? Easy!... VP12 took a look at my AVCHD / MTS movies and suggested using format: HD 1080-60i (1920x1080, 29.970 fps) and I ended up using: HD 1080-60i YUB (1920x1080, 29.970 fps).
I made a 5 minutes video test and it produced a video (.avi) 36,479,725 KB or 36GB!!!! Long. That means that my 135’ video would occupy almost a full TB disk drive…. Which regardless how beautiful it may be, it is impractical in every way for my purposes.
This video is not for professional purposes, but important enough to keep around for a while and showing it to some of my friends.
In your experience – you guys with more experience than I – is there a way to reduce the size of this video without reducing its quality to sh**… say, by a third. Say 5 minutes = 10 GB or 270GB for 135 minutes? Even 300GB total, would be acceptable
Another way of asking the same question is, how can I keep as much quality as possible but at a much lower video size? Obviously reducing the size from 1920 x 1080 to something smaller like [800 x 600], has to be an option, and it would be fine with me.
Oh, by the way, I am referring to a video I can store/carry in the HD of a computer, like my laptop (no interested in putting it on disk or online)
TIA