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My rendered file is too big?
I am rendering an AVI file to MPEG2. The length of the file is 01:44:43. I am using VBR 2 Pass DVD Architect NTSC video stream template. I am using John Cline’s calculator to arrive at the average bit rate. I have changed the defaults in the calculator from 1% safety margin to 5% and 1 kilobit to 1000. My audio is at 192 kbps. The calculator gave me readings of 3232 – 5392 – 9440, I than rounded down to 3200 – 5300 – 8000. I feel the calculator is set correctly as I used one of Mike Kujbida’s earlier posts of a year ago to be sure it was correct. I have also run this thru two different calculators and the AVBR numbers came out a little higher, safety margin I feel was the reason for that. I feel something in the properties has changed???? I do no remember changing anything but then again I have been wrong. If you need more info I will post it.
Thanks in advance for your help,Dave
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9 Replies
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Dave, if DVDA is telling you it’s too big, just ignore it as it has a long history of incorrectly reporting file sizes.
I just finished doing a series of DVDs that around 2 hr. each and every single time DVDA told me it was too large.
I ignored the warnings as I always do and it proceeded as expected with no problems. -
Mile,
My renders are comming out at 4+GB, should give me a file in the 4000MB range. I have run this old home movie 4 times and it is always the same.
Dave
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Dave, that’s still under the 4.3 GB limit so go ahead and burn it.
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Mike,
I should given the exact file size, the mpg file alone was 4.63GB. I have never had this problem as I always render the AC3 file first, the calculator gives me a video size file and I allow 117MB for authoring overhead, just my way of doing so I know how close I am to 4480MB for the DVD. This is the first time I have had this problem, something or someone, “ME” changed something to get the big mpg files. I just have not been able to figure out what “ME” did.
thanks,
Dave
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Dave, WE didn’t do anything wrong, apparently Sony did 🙁
A search on a few other Vegas forums turned up a few users who are complaining that something has changed with rendering in Pro 10.
To quote one user:
I’ve found that its (Pro 10) MPEG2 rendering sizes are random and unpredictable. They can vary by nearly 15%.
Needless to say, this should not be happening.
All I can suggest is use Pro 9 or 8 to render, render again with Pro 10 or lower your Avg. value.
Not much help, I know, but it’s all I can think of. -
Thanks Mike, I have been pulling out what little hair I have left trying to figure this out. I do not have v9, I just bought v10 back in Feb. on the upgrade deal. I will adjust down and see what happens. Thanks again, all of you guys are top notch for devoting all the time you do.
Dave
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Dave, I sure hope it works for you as I know only too well how frustrating it can be to get the last step in the process finished.
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Mike,
I took another route. I opened Vegas Pro x86 and used Debugmode Frameserver and used CCE to encode the file. Worked like a charm and I am in DVD A ready to burn.
Thanks again,
Dave
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Dave, congratulations for coming up with an alternative method that works.
I’ve read on other Vegas forums that CCE is a better encoder so you might want to keep on doing it that way.
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