Rendering to MOV

CClub wrote on 8/29/2007, 7:56 PM
I had taped a 1.5 hour concert in SD a year or so back, and the band leader is asking to have the veg rendered into an MOV file. I did a trial of 4 minutes from the concert, and it rendered to 10 GB; and it was incredibly jumpy in QT. When I tried to render the full concert, Vegas locked up at the end of the concert

The render settings:
"Save as Type: Quick Time 7 (mov)"
"Template: Default Template uncompressed"

Any suggestions to render into MOV?

Comments

Coursedesign wrote on 8/29/2007, 8:04 PM
It's jumpy because your disks are too slow for uncompressed.

MOV is a "wrapper" for video/audio files. It doesn't specify one specific format.

What does the band leader want to do with the MOV?

Does he want a low res file to put on an iPod? Or a file to be projected on a large screen?
CClub wrote on 8/30/2007, 1:23 PM
He uses FCP and he wants to be able to edit the footage himself before loading onto a DVD. That's why he wants uncompressed. Can't he do the same thing with avi imported into FCP?

I rendered about 4 minutes of the concert last night, and it produced a 4 GB file, so that was probably the problem with the full 1.5 hour concert: it didn't fit into the 200 GB remaining on the hard drive that I was saving it to. With the settings I listed above, they are the default mov settings... am I doing something wrong with the settings?
Yoyodyne wrote on 8/30/2007, 1:43 PM
Can you just lay it back to DV tape? That is probably the "easiest" workflow. I have had good luck with Quicktime Animation codec files going between Vegas and FCP but they are very big.
CClub wrote on 8/30/2007, 2:13 PM
At this point, I'm presenting him with two options: rendering back to DV tape or rendering to DV AVI.
Cheno wrote on 8/30/2007, 3:25 PM
I'd dump it back to tape and let him capture then if drive space is an issue - that's the drawback with uncompressed footage is it takes up a lot of drive space.

At least now he can capture as an .mov and do what he needs to do.

-cheno