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Rendering to .avi – having difficulty size limits
I am having a hell of a time understanding the way Vegas renders. I have a wedding video of 2.5 hours. I normally used to render to MPEG – 2 however I am not happy with the video quality loss. I used the following template this time around;
NTSC DV template, .avi for windows.
I left all settings default and my finished file turned out to be 32 gig….Oh my GOD…Is that normal?????? I was assuming the file to be around 6-7 gig max… Can someone advise please as I am in a jam…
One other question, will DVD achitech prepare av .avi file of 32 gig? If it will, can I use a product like DVD shrink to get the file down to 4.7 or less?
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6 Replies
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You must render to Mpeg for use on DVD. 2.5 hours is really more than you can squeeze onto a single layer DVD (4.3 Gigs) without seeing quality loss.
Gary
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Not sure if this is the best way , but the way I do it. 1st-render final 2.5 hour wedding clip to one file same as you shot it. Ex. if you shot 24pa render as 24p 2332 pulldown. 2-bring that file into dvda and do whatever you normally do. 3-when burning click the button called optimize and then fit to disk. This will take the roughly 30 gig file and squeeze it onto the 4.7 gig dvd. I just did one with about a 30 GB file andf 2 hours and 25 minutes of footage and it took about 5 hours to render another 20 minutes to burn. (render it before bed)
My other method—You can render in vegas to the preset dvda file and do the ac3 thing but when you bring it DVDA it will not fit on the disk and you can’t get it to optimize or fit to disk. I tried for 2 hours once.
Hope this helps or some one give a better way to do this.
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You will see a slight loss in quality when squeezing 2.5 hrs on a DVD. But most people won’t notice and it’s better than VHS or having to put it on 2 DVD’s. If the customer wants 5 copies, now you have to burn and print 10…
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[vegasuser88] “I left all settings default and my finished file turned out to be 32 gig….Is that normal??????”
13 Gig/Hour x 2.5 hours = 32.5 Gig
Yep, sounds normal for DV-AVI.
You can also give the 32.5 gig AVI file to DVDA and let IT determine the proper bitrate for encoding to MPEG2.
Edward Troxel
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Can I burn to DVD right from Vegas instead of rendering again in DVDA? After a render of 2+ hours, I really do not want to render again for another 2+ hours in DVDA if I have no menus, ect.
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Vegas will not make DVD’s – That’s the job of DVD Architect.
If you render to MPEG2 in Vegas (and use the proper bitrate) then DVD Architect will NOT re-render the file. Check out Vol 1 #7 of my newsletter for details.
Edward Troxel
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