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PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Paul.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

okay i saved my first vid in vegas and its 876MB is there a way to make it smaller? i have basically no effects but maybe, like normal, i clicked a button that for some reason makes it a massive file. please help
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dam double post sorry!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like you rendered it as an uncompressed avi or something which is the default setting on vegas. Make sure when you render it to select WMV as the file type and select 512 profile for a small sized but okay quality vid. You can also edit the bit rate if you want to make it a better quality without it going crazy sized but if all you want to do is stick it on YT then 512 is fine for that
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thank you soooooo much!!! I was like, wtf? lol Thanks!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, also watch the actual size of the video. Unless you're saving it to DVD then there's really no reason for it be any bigger than 425px wide and 350px high, which is what Youtube displays their videos as. Most video files, especially ones you have ripped from DVD or downloaded are much larger than that and will make the file enormous.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

littleton_pace wrote:
okay i saved my first vid in vegas and its 876MB is there a way to make it smaller? i have basically no effects but maybe, like normal, i clicked a button that for some reason makes it a massive file. please help


That same exact thing happened to me when I made a Heroes vid. I saved it as an avi file, so from now on, I've done wmv and haven't had anymore problems, tho it still renders extremely slowly. I need more memory.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It really doesn't have anything to do with your memory and more to do with what kind of processor you have. Unless you have less than 256mb of RAM then yur fine with memory.

If it's rendering slowly, try closing down all other programs while its running.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do, I close everything I possibly can, and it took 2 hours to render a 35MB file to wmv!! And I have 512 memory. The program is being really slow as well when I'm trying to playback my work, which is why I'm holding off my AU conmama vid I've been planning. Such a precise AU needs to be able to be played back and scrutinized constantly, or it won't look real. The program didn't start out so incredibly slow, but now it is. Could it have something to do with my settings? Could I have accidentally set it on something that did that?
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey, ok this might seem elementry but how do i pause a clip so it looks like a still image whyle playing? I hope that made since. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SassyLostie2 wrote:
I do, I close everything I possibly can, and it took 2 hours to render a 35MB file to wmv!! And I have 512 memory. The program is being really slow as well when I'm trying to playback my work, which is why I'm holding off my AU conmama vid I've been planning. Such a precise AU needs to be able to be played back and scrutinized constantly, or it won't look real. The program didn't start out so incredibly slow, but now it is. Could it have something to do with my settings? Could I have accidentally set it on something that did that?


hmmm...i'm not sure. Have you ever defragmented your harddrive? Sometimes programs rely on components from other programs already installed on your computer and it can slow the processor down. What kind of processor do you have?

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hey, ok this might seem elementry but how do i pause a clip so it looks like a still image whyle playing? I hope that made since. Thanks.


the only way i know how to do it Trey is to make a picture/snapshot with Vegas of the frame I want to stand still. Then paste it into Photoshop (or whatever image editing software you use) save it, then import it into the timeline. If anyone else knows a better way, please add.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I was thinking of defragmenting it tonight when I go to bed, since it takes sooo long. I haven't done it in a while anyway. Thanks!

About the still-frame thing, I did that on accident in my Des vid, 'It Ends Tonight'. I dunno if it was a glitch, or I actually did some kind of weird effect, but I'm leaning towards the former. I'd go with just what Fan4Lost said.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Let me know how all goes. And if I find another way of the stillshot thing, I'll post it up.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wolffootball37 wrote:
hey, ok this might seem elementry but how do i pause a clip so it looks like a still image whyle playing? I hope that made since. Thanks.


Fan4Lost wrote:
the only way i know how to do it Trey is to make a picture/snapshot with Vegas of the frame I want to stand still. Then paste it into Photoshop (or whatever image editing software you use) save it, then import it into the timeline. If anyone else knows a better way, please add.


That's the way that I do it (though I know there's something about velocity envelopes or some such but I've found this to work just fine, so I've never tried to figure out what you do with those ). However, I can add that once you take the snapshot in Vegas Movie Studio, it automatically adds it to your collection, so you can just pull it right up onto the timeline without having to put it into any other program, unless you want to do something to it that Vegas can't do. Like with "Walking Behind" I just capped the exact scene I wanted it to stop or start on, then sepia-toned the still with Vegas's effect. I thought I'd have to send it over to Paintshop but then I realized I liked Vegas's sepia toning just fine so there was no need to "farm it out." Hope that makes sense!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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However, I can add that once you take the snapshot in Vegas Movie Studio, it automatically adds it to your collection, so you can just pull it right up onto the timeline without having to put it into any other program


WOW! I didn't know that! Awesome! Thanks Ais!
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