Trying to render reasonable file sizes.

superkennyk wrote on 9/4/2008, 1:21 PM

I'm trying to render a 1280 X 720, 1 hour video to a Windows media file. However, the video turns out to be over 9GB for "Best" Quality and over 2GB for "Draft" quality.

Is there anything I can do to get it to a reasonable size? When I download torrent movies, they are about 700mb, for a two hour AVI movie, so there must be a way? If I were to render this project to AVI, I swear it would be over 20GB!

Thanks,
Ken

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Chienworks wrote on 9/4/2008, 1:28 PM

It's all about the bitrate. If you want 2 hours in 700MB then you have to use a bitrate of about 796Kbps. This includes audio and video, so if you have use 64Kbps for audio then the video can't be more than 732Kbps.

superkennyk wrote on 9/4/2008, 1:45 PM

Ahhh, ok. Interesting. There is no audio, but I notice if I change the mode to CBR, then I have the option of checking target bit rates. I'll try upping that to 796, thanks.

superkennyk wrote on 9/4/2008, 1:49 PM

Is bit rate the same as data rate? Right now my data rate is set to 1 kb/second. That would make sense, why my AVIs are so massivly HUGE!

Chienworks wrote on 9/4/2008, 1:49 PM

Make sure you go to the Audio tab and uncheck 'include audio'. Even if there's no audio on the timeline the WMV encoder will include audio in the finished file, silent in this case, at whatever bitrate the template specifies. You have to manually turn it off to keep it from being included.

Once you get a setting you're happy with you can save a new template for use with later renderings.