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How to Reduce File Size
Hi Gurus –
I know this question has been answered in the past and I have read earlier posts but did not find a good answer. I have a mixed video project meaning I was using one HD camera and one standard def camera. The HD camera was set to shoot in widescreen. I have edited the project and now I am not quite sure how to render it to reduce the final size of the video. A summary:
1) I set up the properties in Vegas 10 to NTSC wide screen. I then went through the project and ensured my standard def footage was being displayed wide screen as well.
2) There is not much action in this footage – a gingerbread house building party – so I would like to reduce the size of the video so I can fit more on a DVD. From the cobwebs of my mind, it seems I do this by changing the bit rate and some other parameter? Is there a fairly safe number I can plug into these parameters for a video with no fast movements?
3) On a side note, I did render out the file using the Vegas NTSC widescreen mpg format to see the size. It is a 45 minute video and rendered out to a 1,902,000 KB size. However, when I played it back, the cuts to the HD camera were “jumpy” almost like a frame was missing. It is interesting that in Vegas itself, the HD footage played perfectly. I am thinking about rendering this out as an avi file to see if that fixes the problem. If I should try something different, let me know and I’ll give it a shot.
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. If you have a suggestion for some article I should be reading, let me know!
Grasshopper
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5 Replies
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Check out this bitrate calculator from one of Mike K’s posts. You can use it to find out the needed bitrate to make it fit on a DVD.
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actually theres a pretty neat trick you could try, render it using these settings:
(i have vegas 11 so if yours is different my apologies)
1st: click render as…
2nd: choose “Sony AVC/MVC (mp4.mt2s.avc)
3rd: (the tricky part)Video Format: AVC, Resolution: 1920×1080, Entropy Coding: CABAC, Frame Rate: 25 or 29 fps whichever you like both work for me, pixel aspect ratio: 1.0000, bit rate: 2,000,000
Audio: Format: AAC, Sample: 48,000, Bit Rate: 192,000
System: Format: MP4
Project: Video Rendering Quality: Best
these settings should give you an HD video with low size, most of the time it works for me HOWEVER its highly dependant on the source it comes from, if your video is HD it’ll come out in HD, give it a try and see if it works
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Thank you Danny and Jaymes for getting back to me. I’ll give the bit rate calculator a try. I’m not sure the MP4 format will work for me because I have to make a DVD that will play on a regular DVD player (for the grandparents and they can barely operate that). I think I’ll give your settings a try though Jaymes just to see what happens.
Grasshopper
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Janet
Any reason why you don’t use the NTSC DVD architect template as is? Your 45 minute project should easily fit onto 1 DVD.
My only suggestion is to use Good render quality, not Best. It doesn’t pay to use BEST because it takes a lot longer to render (unless render time is unimportant to you). You may only see a difference when resizing very large images.
My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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Hi Nigel –
I would like to maximize how many videos I put on the DVD for the grandparents. I have several that are similar to this in that there is not a lot of fast action so the more I can get on the better!
Thank you for the inquiry.
Grasshopper
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