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Huge HiDef files
I shot a talking head with a Sony XD Cam EX-1, set at 1080 60i (16×9). The show, after simple straight-cut editing on Vegas Pro 8, ran 55 minutes. I then tried to render this to AVI, with the intention of making a DVD for the client with DVD Architect 5.0. But the huge file overwhelmed my PC, which terminated the render at about 20 minutes of program time. I tried again last night (these renders take all night), saving the render to an external storage device with 253 Gigs of storage free. This time the render got about 35 minutes into the show. My client is a non-profit, and my budget is picayune. I am trying to figure out how to get this show onto DVD in the least expensive way. Do I have to buy a one or two terabyte storage device, or is there some way I can scale back the hugeness of this HD file without losing picture quality?
Thanks in advance,
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Why are you encoding to AVI? DVDA can take mpg-2 files as well as M2T files. There should be no need for an AVI file, just use one of the DVDA widescreen templates and do the audio with the AC3 template, drop the finished encode into DVDA and then there is no need for a seperate render in DVDA as it is already compliant and there’s your finished DVD.
j razz
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Thank you, Jeremy,
Your solution of rendering to MPG2 and taking the audio to AC3, and then putting both in DVDA to create a DVD worked like a charm. I was able to burn a DVD and shoot it to my client just before he had me killed for malingering.
I have a new challenge: I shot about ten minutes of B-roll exteriors on an XD-CAM Ex-1. I did not have, at that time, a SxS device to upload the footage to my PC, so a buddy who is totally Mac took my SxS chip and uploaded the footage to his hard drive. He soon needed his hard drive space, so he gave me my files on DVDs in two formats: .mov and .avi. I can’t open any of these files, or even play them in Quick Time, Windows Media Player, VLC player, or Nero ShowTime. Vegas Pro 8 won’t have anything to do with them. The original files have been deleted from the SxS chip, and also from my buddy’s HD. Now what?!
Thanks,
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If your buddy is accessible you may want to run the dvd’s over to him and see if he can open them on his mac in Final Cut. It may be that the files are corrupt- just to close off that suspicion, take them back to the source.
If they are good on his system see if he will convert them to another format for you. Too bad you don’t have the original files any longer.
Let us know how this was resolved.
j razz
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