what do you all render your vid files as?

nocturnal_f wrote on 12/22/2004, 11:27 PM

i use to render my projects and such to mpeg1 not knowing that it would be low quality

then i tried avi but it saved too big of a file. then i now render all my stuff to mpeg2. i don't know if this is the highest quality possible but it is for me. so if i want to make a vcd i just have to slap finished rendered vids to a disc but i render it as mpeg1 first.

what do u guys render your stuff as?

Comments

NickHope wrote on 12/22/2004, 11:57 PM

I keep my important archive as DV-AVI files so I don't lose any quality at all. I know the files are big but disk space is cheap these days.

If I'm making DVD's I render to MPEG2 using Cinema Craft Encoder Basic (CCE). My tests using Vegas' inbuilt MPEG2 encoder have compared well but I'm sticking with CCE for now. And it's faster.

I find Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9) to be the best combination of quality vs file size vs compatibility for my 320 x 240 online movies, especially now it's supported on the Mac.

If you're looking at archiving at near-lossless quality then Windows Media Video or DIVx give better results than storing your video as MPEG1 or MPEG2.

rmack350 wrote on 12/22/2004, 11:57 PM

I think the prefered formats are DV avi, uncompressed AVI, and Sony YUV.

If space is an issue you should consider getting a new hdd.

Mpeg is a delivery format. Not something you want to work with.

Rob Mack

PeterWright wrote on 12/23/2004, 12:06 AM

Every project is mastered to DV tape, sometimes twice, and kept along with camera originals. Some avis are kept on hard drive but not all.

I keep all the DVD data - that's the DVDA2 .dar file plus all media which I input into that Project, including graphics and music/audio. Backed up to DVD as files. Then it's easy to reload and update any time.