First, I WOULD advise going to 2.0b. They fixed a thousand
bugs, added Mpeg support and a few other features. Second,
go to the Video Tab of your Custom Settings for the NTSC DV
template and make sure it says NTSC DV as your Video Format
and NOT uncompressed. It sounds like you're getting
uncompressed video - which is HUGE and not necessary.

edward natale wrote:
>>heres the scenario :
>>
>>
>>video track one :
>>just a simple jpeg at 640 by 480 of a company logo with a
>>blue background.. i used the chroma keyer plug in to key
>>out the blue so im just left with the logo.. then i
applied
>>the wave plug in to that and key framed it in a few
>>different positions to give it a warbly effect...
>>
>>video track two:
>>just a text media clip with no actual text on a white
back
>>ground... theres no text because i just wanted a solid
>>white background... then i applied the snow plug in to
give
>>it an interesting snowy effect...
>>
>>so basicly the final clip looks like this :
>>
>>company logo is warbly for 3 seconds on a white back
ground
>>filled with snow...
>>
>>now mind you , when i export this clip as ntsc dv (640 by
>>480 , 29.97 frames per second ), my 3.5 second clip
beomes
>>an hard drive choking 179 MEGABYTES!! my hard drive cant
>>even play the finished file back , so how am i even going
>>to export this back out through the firewire port??
>>
>>please advise.. and dont take the easy way out and
>>say "well you need to upgrade to a newer version of vegas
>>video"...i tried that once and it caused video capture to
>>GPF every time i executed the EXE file.. and i NEED to
use
>>video capture since vegas video doesnt write sony dvgate
>>friendly avi files...
>>
>>800 mhz pIII...
>>128 megs of ram...
>>40 gig hard drive..
>>windows 98..
>>vegas video 2.0 (build 302)
>>
>>- eddie -
>>
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