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  Sony Vegas 9.0 Render Settings

  Posted by Grant Pohl on August 9, 2011 at 5:23 am

  I’ve captured a bunch of video onto my pc and am now stuck at the rendering settings. There’s many options and I can’t seem to find any valuable info on the internet about what the different options mean. I want to get the kind of quality where a 2 hour video is only about 1gb, not 20gb. I’ve read some of Sony’s documentation but cannot find what I’m looking for. The last render I did looked like this when I look at the video’s properties:

  720 x 480
  1501kbps
  pcm
  29 frames/second
  7913 kbps
  24 bit
  ffds

  The video was approximately 2 hours long and 15gb in size.

  What settings should I use so that my video ends up like a normal, good quality movie that isn’t so big?

  thanks

  Mike Kujbida replied 14 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mike Thomas ii

  August 9, 2011 at 9:04 am

  There are many ways to skin a cat and even more ways to render in Vegas.

  You could render out using Save As…MainConcept AVC/ACC (.mp4) and then change the template settings for frame size and bit rate (which will determine the overall file size).

  I render most of my files in DivX, so I can play them on my Xbox360 and burn them to a DVD to play in a compatible DivX-DVD player.

  The DivX Converter (free download https://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/converter) has a bit rate calculator, so you can set the exact file size if you wish. The converter can be used as standalone program or through Vegas in the ‘Video for Windows (*.avi) render options, then you change the template, Custom > Video format to DivX Codec > Configure…select your profile.

  If I am doing a straight conversion with no editing or effects, I use the DivX standalone program, it seems to convert faster than in Vegas.
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  Grant Pohl

  August 11, 2011 at 12:56 am

  Hi, I downloaded and tried to use Divx, but when I started rendering, it stopped and gave me an error message about the codec. So I tried to use another program instead of Vegas to render. The other programmed rendered it, but the files still seem to be coming out a little bigger than I want. Most movies seem to be about 700mb. How do I get an .avi video to be about that size? thanks
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  Mike Thomas ii

  August 11, 2011 at 1:18 am

  Here is a list of free bitrate calculators that should help you set file sizes.

  https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/bitrate-calculators

  And for Windows Media files (.wmv) you go here https://alexzambelli.com/WMV/WMVBitCalc.html
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  Mike Kujbida

  August 11, 2011 at 1:33 am

  [Grant Pohl] “How do I get an .avi video to be about that size?”

  If the program you’re using will let you, lowering the bitrate is the only way to reduce the size.

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