Lost Video Island

[xxundiscoveredxx]

Could someone please help me! evertime i try to render a video in sony vegas 6 it comes out as 1gb, ive tried so many things, please help!

[Aislynn]

Heya xxundiscoveredxx! What settings are you using? Are you rendering it into .WMV or something like .MPG or .AVI?

[xxundiscoveredxx]

i am using avi

[Aislynn]

That would be what's making it so large, then. .AVI is basically uncompressed video (although sometimes now it's being compressed with DivX or Xvid, which makes the whole thing thoroughly confusing! ). If you're wanting it to be very high quality (such as to burn onto a DVD and watch on a regular TV), I believe most people use .MPG (still at a very high setting). If it's just for "regular" vid viewing, I'd suggest .WMV at 512 kbps. In my experience, that gives you nice quality for a reasonable size!

If you need any help finding all these settings, let me know!

[xxundiscoveredxx]

yeah if possible is there anyway you could tell me how to do this? Thank you so much for you help

[Aislynn]

Sure, no problem!

There are a couple of different ways you can render, I always use File - Render As instead of Make Movie but I think they both get you to the same place eventually.

Anyway, going through Render As brings you up this box:



(Don't mind my funky file names, lol! ) Where it says "Save as type" right under the file name, it's a pull-down menu. So when you click the down arrow, you'll get a bunch of file format choices:



Just using .WMV should make a big difference in the size of the file. If the quality doesn't seem as good as you'd like it or the file comes out extremely small with bad quality, then see where there's a button that says "Custom..." on the right side? Clicking that will bring you up a whole bunch more options. In my first screencap, there's a box that says "Description" and has a bunch of info in it. That's my "custom" info (which should be the default for .WMV and you shouldn't have to change it too much). But you can change around some of the info, raise the quality from 90%, that sort of thing, and see how it works out for you.

Let me know if this helps!

[Fan4Lost]

ooo Ais got it!

Also, watch the size of the video file you are saving. Most times it will be about 640 x 480 or around that and that can make the file very large as well. Use the custom render to change it.



anything smaller than 640x480 is fine, but the smaller you go the better. Lots of layers can also make it a large size file.

[xxundiscoveredxx]

thank you so much!