We've had discussions in the past about whether or not to resize still photos before bringing them into VMS. Also, it's been pointed out that the Best render setting can help when you have oversized stills in a project, but takes much longer to render.
I finally completed a little video test showing some examples, and am posting info about it here and over on camcorderinfo.com.
I've uploaded some MPEG files to a free hosting site on the web. I finally settled on using "www.savefile.com", because it lets you actually upload and download *files*. Some of the other sites let you upload video files, but then you are stuck viewing it in their web page window -- can't actually download the video to your computer.
If any of you have the time, and a fast enough internet connection, I have five MPEG files, about 20 MB each. But the meat of the whole project is described in a tiny little text file there that will take almost no time to download. If you have limited time, just go get the "read me" file, and decide from there which video files, if any, you might want to see.
Basically, I have a short, 25 second excerpt of a project I did last year, which mainly consisted of high resolution stills with slow zooms. When I did the project last year, I found that using the Best render definitely looked better than the "Good" render setting -- got rid of some visual artifacts and distracting, sparkly things in the video. (Remember, I'm pretty much a beginner with all this...)
I don't want to ruin the ending for you, but I might have determined that downsampling the still photos to something like 900x600 before bringing them into Vegas Movie Studio will give you excellent results on the "Good" render setting, and will render in less than a third of the time required for the full resolution photos using the "Best" setting. (I still need the photos slightly oversized because I am zooming in on them slightly.)
Here is the link to my files at savefile.com:
http://www.savefile.com/projects/388219
Click on that link, and it will bring up a web page that says "Tim L's Video Test Files", and will have a list of files you can download.
1. Chose a file and click the big, orange "Download" button.
2. This will bring up a second screen with some ads on it. Look near the bottom of the screen for a link that says "[ Download the file now ]". Click this link, and you should then get a pop-up window that says "What do you want to do...Run it? Save it?" (or something like that). Just save it to your hard drive.
3. When the download is done the window disappears. At this point, I think you can click the BACK button on your browser to return to the file download selection page.
Tim L
I finally completed a little video test showing some examples, and am posting info about it here and over on camcorderinfo.com.
I've uploaded some MPEG files to a free hosting site on the web. I finally settled on using "www.savefile.com", because it lets you actually upload and download *files*. Some of the other sites let you upload video files, but then you are stuck viewing it in their web page window -- can't actually download the video to your computer.
If any of you have the time, and a fast enough internet connection, I have five MPEG files, about 20 MB each. But the meat of the whole project is described in a tiny little text file there that will take almost no time to download. If you have limited time, just go get the "read me" file, and decide from there which video files, if any, you might want to see.
Basically, I have a short, 25 second excerpt of a project I did last year, which mainly consisted of high resolution stills with slow zooms. When I did the project last year, I found that using the Best render definitely looked better than the "Good" render setting -- got rid of some visual artifacts and distracting, sparkly things in the video. (Remember, I'm pretty much a beginner with all this...)
I don't want to ruin the ending for you, but I might have determined that downsampling the still photos to something like 900x600 before bringing them into Vegas Movie Studio will give you excellent results on the "Good" render setting, and will render in less than a third of the time required for the full resolution photos using the "Best" setting. (I still need the photos slightly oversized because I am zooming in on them slightly.)
Here is the link to my files at savefile.com:
http://www.savefile.com/projects/388219
Click on that link, and it will bring up a web page that says "Tim L's Video Test Files", and will have a list of files you can download.
1. Chose a file and click the big, orange "Download" button.
2. This will bring up a second screen with some ads on it. Look near the bottom of the screen for a link that says "[ Download the file now ]". Click this link, and you should then get a pop-up window that says "What do you want to do...Run it? Save it?" (or something like that). Just save it to your hard drive.
3. When the download is done the window disappears. At this point, I think you can click the BACK button on your browser to return to the file download selection page.
Tim L