Wedding DVD burning file size Vegas Render

[John Rofrano]

[Derek Charles] “How are these people able to have significantly lower file sizes and I dont see a quality problem?”

It all depends on the source video. Is it well lit? Is the camera locked down? Lots of motion or noise in the video will result in a lower quality render. There are a lot of factors to consider that affect encoding.

~jr

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[Graham Bernard]

[John Rofrano] “It all depends on the source video.”

Agreed John. I posted this “hours” earlier And eventually all the FXing produces some major heavy-lifting for the encode and a requirement for greater BitRates and consequently larger files.

Rule One: Capture with the best lighting you can. I have several kit bags of lighting. A set of LED Panels; top lights; fill and LED spots. I’ve also rigged an anonymous floor standing standard lamp I rigged with a controllable incandescent. I like that one!

Rule Two: Use a heavy or at least a “stiff” Tripod. I have a 10 year old MILLER with carbon fibre legs which I use rigged to a Dolly.

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Rule 1000: Optimise Encode appropriate/suitable for platform.

But hey, these rules are only guidelines. Personally I’d swap R1 for R2 ????

And again Derek, do take up John’s suggestion of a DI. This DI then becomes THE file to encode from. For me this gives me a cleanly QA media created the best way I can output. And then I can encode knowing what I’m dealing with. Also the encode times are massively reduced.

* Grazie

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