RENDERING, SAVING FILES NEED SOME ADVICE..

killbuzz_Pickle05 wrote on 3/18/2005, 2:40 AM
First off to understand what I’m doing you have to watch a video so you can see what I’m trying to do and if it’s even possible. http://www.killbuzz.com/videos/dvd_teaser/xtpl_event1_teaser.wmv

Okay let me start off telling you what I’m doing. I’m making a DVD and I am filming a lot of events for this DVD I’m talking like 8hours a EVENT video which when streamed through VEGAS 5 can add up a bunch on the HARD DRIVE. I need to know a few things on the streaming, saving, and rendering my movies.

First when streaming I want the best quality but I don’t want to take up 500gigs on just a few tapes. If someone can explain the best streaming settings so I can get the best quality without using up a lot of space. (IS THERE SUCH A THING) I have over 500 Gigs but I know it’s not going to be enough that’s for my next question.

After I streamed everything to the computer I will edit all the stupid stuff out of the video and keep only the action stuff. (Note this video I edit is not the final movie. This is where I just keep all my action stuff from one event then put it together with music like above.) So instead of having 8hours of all boring video I only have 3hours of good video. When im done taking all the good video I want to get rid of the all the boring video on my computer to save space but I cant because it will delete my action shots I have since all the clips are together.

Is there a way when I edit all the action shots from a video it will take that clip and cut it and save it somewhere like the media pool or will I have to render that all my action shots and then load that video I just rendered back into vegas and start putting my video together with the music? The reason why I want to keep all my action shots from all the events is once im done with all my events I will make a intro with some of the clips through out the yr.

If you can give me advice on what I should do I would be SO grateful!

Sorry for the long post if you don’t understand watch the video teaser you will then understand what im doing.

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/18/2005, 4:58 AM
You didn’t tell us anything about your camera so its hard to suggest how to capture the video (I believe “streaming” is the word you used). If it’s a DV camera you don’t have a choice. It stores the video in DV25 format, which is 13gig/hr (unless you capture it as analog). If you have an analog camcorder and an analog capture card you can try different formats that may take up less space (with less quality). I had a Pinnacle DC10+ analog card and it had an option to capture at 640x480 or 320x480 to save space. Because the 320x480 maintained full vertical resolution it looked almost as good 640x480. (in fact, I couldn’t tell the different most of the time)

As for cutting out the bad parts and saving disk space, that’s easy. Use the Save As... option in Vegas and check Copy and trim media with project and select a new folder to place the trimmed media in. This will save only the parts you used trimming off the parts you didn’t. You can then go back and delete the original files.

~jr
killbuzz_Pickle05 wrote on 3/18/2005, 5:30 AM
Im sorry for the camera thing it's a Canon GL2 MiniDV

And thanks for the info on trimming, Let me ask you this I have already trimed some of the video can i just save that as is and will it save the files that i have already trimmed?

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK you!
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/18/2005, 4:59 PM
You definitely want to capture the GL2 via firewire as DV. It’s OK that you already trimmed some of it. When you “save as” with the trim option it just copies over the parts that are actually used on the timeline.

~jr