Rendering to DivX

Skywatcher wrote on 1/10/2005, 7:33 PM

What's up Family,

I want to email a 6 minute Video done in vegas 5. Rendering to WMV9 sucks! Too much quality loss and still a large file. Would Divx be a smaller file and maintain the quality??

If so, how can I import the DivX codec into Vegas??

Thanks,

Skywatcher

Comments

p@mast3rs wrote on 1/10/2005, 7:37 PM

If I am not mistaken, both Divx and WM9 calculate their file sizes based on bit rates. So both formats would be approximately the same size. Personally, I would use WM9 if forced to choose between the two codecs. However, All of my encoding these days is done with Nero's H.264 AVC codecs. Only problem is not everyone has the playback ability unless you have a H.264 AVC capable player installed.

Skywatcher wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:02 PM

Okay. I ask this question then:

The original video is DV-AVI. Should I render the whole kitten ka-bootle to MPEG2 first, then to WMV?

Will this help reduce the size and maintain quality??

BillyBoy wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:08 PM

What BITRATE are you rendering at?

If you only tried the default template, bump it up to 1 or 3 mbbs and I think you'll like the result.

Skywatcher wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:09 PM

Billyboy,

I'm trying it as we type. I'll post the results and give you my opinion...

Thanks family

Chienworks wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:31 PM

Multiple generations of rendering are never a good idea. Rendering to MPEG and then to WMV will lose much more quality than going straight to WMV to begin with. It would also waste a lot of time.

Skywatcher wrote on 1/10/2005, 8:58 PM

Got it!

Thanx everyone. Will post the results of my WMV Render at 3 mbps...

Orcatek wrote on 1/11/2005, 6:19 AM

6 minutes at 3mbs is going to be a pretty big file - way to big for email. You are looking at over 30 meg in my experience.

Skywatcher wrote on 1/11/2005, 7:52 AM

You're right.

I took it down to 256 to see the size...will let you know.