Randall Raymond
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google ‘flv encoder’ Riva is the freebie
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Yes, I meant ‘Properties’. Let me ask: where or how do you intend to play your rendered video. Mpeg2 is vastly different from Windows Media. If you want to watch your movie full-screen on your monitor – then either will work – just pick the right pixel size for WMV.
The top bit rate most of us for ultimately burning to DVD is 8000 for the video – that leaves headroom for quality encoding of the audio.
Constant or Variable bit-rates are your first choice. Most of the other controls never need be touched. So my advice is take a one clip and encode it all sorts of ways to get the hang of things. Start with a low low constant bit rate and encode that – looks crappy, right? Picture quality and bit-rate are determined by the amount of movement in a scene. Variable rates take care of scene changes especially on a two pass variable bit-rate encode. The first pass plans the encode and the second pass works the plan.
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Under file, project settings, you choose the format 4×3 or Widescreen. So if you choose 4×3 as the format and then in the rendering choices chose widescreen – the render will have pillar bars left and right. If you chose widescreen for your project and rendered to 4×3 – you would get bars top and bottom – ‘letterboxed.’ Hope that clear things up.
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https://www.raymondmotionpictures.com/ms.html
The above is an example of On2 encoding at high quality.
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Did you take a 4×3 project and render to widescreen?
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There’s a freebie out there that does the same thing. On2 encoding is the best for flash 8 and comes with Flash 8 Professional – much, much better quality (and smaller files) than the sorensen codec provides.
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Rendering, an Meg2 file to the same drive as your captured footage is not a problem. A little more work for that drive’s head as it goes back and forth reading to render and finally writing back the Meg2. You won’t loose a frame. ANY drive can keep up with that pace.
Don’t forget: your original footage is never changed in Vegas or most other NLEs.
Personally, I render to another drive because when I wipe my capture drive clean for the next project, I don’t want to inadvertently delete rendered files for DVD or Flash Video – so I keep them separate for that reason and, pretty much, for that reason alone.
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I partitioned a 250gig HD in this way: 100gigs for system and programs, 20gigs for pagefile and temporary internet, downloads, etc and the remainder in a third partition for ‘My Documents.’ This works very well and very fast and keeps fragmentation down. When I need to reinstall for Vista – I will only need to clean off the first partition on the physical disk.
I also have two Raids of two HD’s each (two teras total) for video capture.
Anyway, that’s been my solution and it has worked well for me.
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For around $2600 you can build a quad-core Intel system with a BlueRay burner – doesn’t get better than that.
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Empressive rendering speeds for Vegas. I recently put a system together around the E6600 Intel CPU and will up-grade to the Quad-Core in a few months – running the 975 Intel motherboard Extreme.