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twointhemorning

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I just rendered a five minute video from vegas, avi format, and it's 1.11 GB large. How do I reduce the size of this or should I render using a different format?

Thanks,
andy
 
if you are rendering to DV, that is what you will get. Rendering to WMV or QuickTime will get you a smaller file, but at a cost in quality. That is your destination for distribution?
 
i rendered to wmv and it's still relatively large (160MB). I just wanna send it over the internet to some people so something under 100 would be better for me.
 
Ok:

Render as h.264 AVC with these specs,

640 by 480 size
VBRL 750,000 max, 550,00 average

You should wind up with a file averaging 5mb per minute.
 
I'm not familiar with Vegas, but in general, AVI is not a good format for web delivery.

As BennisHahn said, H.264 (viewable in Quicktime) is a good format, and Windows Media is also, it's just a matter of choosing your settings.

Depending on what sort of content you have, you can get a very serviceable 640x480 video rendered at the settings he suggested either with Windows Media or H.264. If you go down to 320x240, you can render at 300 to 500Kbps and maintain excellent quality. A lot of the content we render to Windows Media at 1Mbps, 640x480, and clips that run ~15 minutes are about 150MB-175mb finished size.

I just did a project yesterday that I output to Flash at 853x480. At 1Mbps, it was really beautiful, almost no artifacting. At 600K, it had some artifacting, but was still very watchable. Of course, it will vary - content with a lot of blank walls or backdrops or whatever will compress much better than content with moving backgrounds, greenery, that sort of thing.
 
You can get five minutes under 5MB if you're judicious with the settings.

But if you're happy with what you got, then party on.
 
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