Rendering HD Video to a smaller file size

[Scott Francis]

How long is the video?

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Jarrod Walsh]

Thanks for getting back to me so promptly.

The video is only 4 minutes in length

[Scott Francis]

What was your original format, resolution and are you keeping the end product the same as the originals?

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Jarrod Walsh]

I used a HD Panasonic camera and filmed in the highest definition, so the file sizes were large, and yes the end product has been rendered to a smaller, compressed file

[Scott Francis]

There is much more going on than you are asking for. There are a lot of formats out there:
1080p, 1080i, 720p, etc,in AVCHD, HDV, MP4, XDCAM etc,As well as varying MBPS rates as well and if something is 60p, 60i, 30p 24p (ntsc).
These can all have effects on file size at render.
Me recommendation is to shot for what you are delivering this for. Web, Blu-Ray, general computer, and choice a format that way.
After that tweak the settings under Custom in you rendering popup and see what you can come up with.
For web use the Sony AVC type and check out some of the templates. See what the end result looks like.
Please note that just because you have a name brand camera (Sony, Panasonic, JVC, etc) that they all have a WIDE range of formats they use from consumer on up and then all have their own issues and such.
Giving us the most info on this forum will help us to answer your question better…hope this helps and good luck!

And a ton of other options as well.
You need to decide if you need or wish to go from one

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Jarrod Walsh]

You’re a legend mate,

Thank you so much for your help.

What I’ll do is head home and write to you every format I am using and what it is rendering out to, and hopefully you can help me from there.

Cheers

[John Rofrano]

[Jarrod Walsh] “What I’ll do is head home and write to you every format I am using and what it is rendering out to, and hopefully you can help me from there.”

I would just use Scott’s recommendation to render to Sony AVC using the Internet 1920×1080-30p template. This will get your file size down around where you want it. Then tweak the Bit rate (bps) to make the file larger or smaller to get is as close to 150MB as possible. This will be the highest quality you can get at 150MB size.

~jr

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[Rob Patterson]

New to this forum site…and to Vegas Platinum 10–
Here’s my problem.
For most of my projects, I must have subtitles. Using the text generators, it is very time-consuming. I can’t seem to figure out how to do visible caption with the ‘closed captioning’ feature.

In order to use VirtualDub for Subtitles, it seems I have limited to using only AVI files. So, I just rendered a 5 minute video from wmv to AVI and it came out as a 37GB file. Could you help me figure how to render to AVI in a more reasonable size? Here are the properties of the rendered file:
Length: 5:21
Frame Width: 1920
Frame Height: 1080
Data Rate: 994333kbps
Total BitRate: 995869kbps
Frame Rate 29/frames/second
Bit Rate: 1536kbps
Size: 37.3GB

–or is there a forum or video about creating visible captions with Platinum 10 Vegas?

Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

[John Rofrano]

[Rob Patterson] ” I can’t seem to figure out how to do visible caption with the ‘closed captioning’ feature.”

What is your final delivery format? For WMV files you can add captions by inserting Command Markers and selecting WMClosedCaption but these might display in the player and not on the video. I’ve never used this feature because I never deliver WMV.

If you want to create smaller AVI files than uncompressed (which is what I assume you are using) use the Huffyuv or Lagarith codec. Both are free downloads and will show up under Video for Windows once installed. MJPEG would also be a good codec to use and the files will be a lot smaller but you’ll have to purchase one in order to render to this format as Vegas does not ship with an MJPEG encoder.

~jr

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