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Huge file size when rendering 1080i
Hello every one, I’ve recently updated from Vegas 4 to VMSPlatinium 9 and started working on my first HD project. Everything was fine until I decided to render it as 1080i to my hard drive. The unpleasant surprise was that for 40min project with only stereo sound it took more than 250GB of my hard drive.
Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong?
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It sounds like you have used the Default Template which is uncompressed. Why are you rendering it to your hard drive? (i.e., what is the final destination?) and render it with a template that is appropriate for that destination. e.g., if it’s Blu-ray disc render to M2T ot AVC, if it’s the web render to MP4, if it’s a DVD render to MPEG2, etc.
~jr
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Hi John,
Thanks for your response!I am rendering it as final project to the hard drive in order to be able to have it available in case I have to transfer it to my camcorder and watch it as High Definition (I don’t have blu-ray burner nor yet)
Thanks!
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Yes,
Uncompressed isn’t too helpful!
You have a couple of choices:
1. Render lossless AVI *use Sony YUV*
2. Render lossless MOV *use MJpegA or PNG Best*
3. Render to smaller but slightly lossy format like AVCHD/MP4Any of those will improve your situation immensely.
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If you are rendering to transfer to your camcorder then you must use the format that your camcorder records in. For HD that would be either HDV or AVCHD depending on your camcorder.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com -
Yes, I just figured that out 🙂
I tried again but this time as MPEG-2 which is the camera’s format as well and the file size is reasonable. My previous experiments were as .AVI.Thank you all for your help!!!!
JS
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