Smallest render possible

lacole wrote on 1/22/2002, 9:18 PM

I'm new to VV3. What are the best render settings to generate a very small file suitable for friends and family email. I'm looking to render about 30 seconds. Quality of video and audio need not be great.

Thanks

Cole

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 1/22/2002, 10:03 PM

For the lowest bitrates, nothing beats RealMedia. The 56K video setting
encodes at 34Kbps and gives a passably useful result in about 255K
bytes per minute of video.

FadeToBlack wrote on 1/22/2002, 11:31 PM

L25 wrote on 1/23/2002, 8:35 AM

I agree with GG, and BTW, yes GG's files look very clean over the internet. Some folks don't have media player 7 so it won't work.

Also if you use the WMV DSL template and audio is not a big deal then you can customize it downward to 8bit mono. Audio takes up alot of spave.

Chienworks wrote on 1/23/2002, 1:47 PM

Keep in mind though that the question was for the smallest render
possible, sacrificing quality if necessary. At 512K, a 30 second file will
be almost 2MB. I'd consider that a rather large eMail attachment. It
can't be sent through Hotmail. Even at the 100K setting (which usually
encodes at 80K) a 30 second clip will be 300KB. This is getting to be a
more reasonable attachment size. At bit rates this low RealMedia outdoes
the other formats.