• VEGAS Pro

  12Gig rendered file?

  Posted by Vic Santiago on November 21, 2007 at 5:26 am

  Hi,

  I’m new to Vegas 7, and as a first project, I compiled several video tutorials together which ran for about 59 minutes. When I rendered the vegas project as a video for windows (.avi) file, the resulting file was a whopping 12Gig file and took almost two hours to render (my computer is a dual chip Pentium D 2.8 GHz)

  Is this the right file size? I kept all the default avi template settings in Vegas.

  Thank you.

  Vic Santiago replied 18 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Mike Kujbida

  November 21, 2007 at 12:19 pm

  DV AVI is about 13.5 GB/hr. so that sounds right to me.
  If you plan to make a DVD from it, you need to encode it to MPEG-2 & AC-3 streams.
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  Vic Santiago

  November 22, 2007 at 12:07 am

  Thanks Mike. Would you know the resulting file size if rendered to MPEG-2 and AC-3?
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  Edward Troxel

  November 22, 2007 at 2:37 am

  The size of the MPEG2 file will depend totally upon the bitrate you choose.

  Edward Troxel
  
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  Vic Santiago

  November 22, 2007 at 6:52 am

  What bitrate would you suggest I use to get a good quality video/audio output in a reasonable file size?

  Thanks.
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  Mike Kujbida

  November 22, 2007 at 11:16 am

  CBR: 8,000,000
  VBR: 8,000,000 / 8,000,000 / 4,600,000

  Read Vol. 1 Issue #7 of Edward Troxel’s newsletters (click the link under his name) for more info on DVD prep and authoring.
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  Vic Santiago

  November 23, 2007 at 12:36 am

  Thanks again.

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