What do I do with this monster?

[Kelly Griffin]

First thing that comes to mind is to bust it up into chewable chunks, in consideration of both your IT guys and your audience. Of the 2.5 hours, how much do you think someone will want to watch before they want a break?

I think if I had five half-hour segments (or ten fifteen-minute ones) that had names like chapter names, that might be more appealing than thinking of watching and/or scrolling through the 2.5-hour monster…

–KG

[John Rofrano]

[Randy Champion] “I shot a seminar at 720p and 60fps that is 2.5 hours long!”

Did you shoot in 60p because there was a lot of fast action at the seminar and you wanted to capture it smoothly? Because if you didn’t… you will be paying in longer rendering times as Vegas has to convert 60p to 30p when you didn’t need it.

[Randy Champion] “The total AVCHD package is 19GB.”

…and at 30p it would have been 1/2 of that!

[Randy Champion] “I’m done editing it, so how should I render it and then compress it to where we can post it on our company intranet?”

I would render using the MainConcept AVC encoder with the Internet HD 720-30p template. As Kelly said, cut them down into consumable chunks. He suggests 30 minutes but I would even go with 20 minute segments.

~jr

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[Randy Champion]

Thanks to both of you. I usually always shoot at 30fps, but for some reason I didn’t check it after shooting a night football game so I kicked myself twice when I saw it was 60fps. I agree that sitting through 2.5 hours would be a pain in the butt – I had to in order to film it! So I will break it up into pieces, there are some natural cutting points as they did have breaks.
And John, you’re right on the rendering. It took 6.5 hours to do the whole thing!

Another question: When I cut and paste clips is there a way to have the envelopes go with them so I don’t have to re-do them all?

Not all who wander are lost.