Questions about rendering from Sony Vegas HD platinum

[ravi.or.raj]

Hi, Im kinda of stuck here....
we r taking part in the 48hour film project, and I thought I had all things sorted.

Im Shooting on a Panasonic HDC TM700 camcoder (outputs 24i files) , and editing on Sony vegas 10. HD platinum edition.
So far I've ha'd pretty decent results on Vegas , mainly coz i've only been rendering in .avi or .wmv formats and uploading on youtube .

But this competetion requires me to submit the files in any of the below media:

"-(preferred) a self-contained SD Quicktime file with no proprietary codecs on either:
- a data DVD, or
- a USB flash drive
-miniDV
-playable DVD
"

Now, today morning (the competetion is n saturday) , I tried rendering from vegas in .MOV format , and it generated a monster HD file (32 GB for 3 min video) . Then i tried rendering to Pal SD format , in MPEG-4 codec, even that gave 6 GB files , and whats worse is that the Files when played on quicktime were very soft and grainy .

I need to know what are best rendering settings (in terms of frame size , frame rate, codec and data rate ) to get decent quality SD video (as reqd by them ) .
-Also what will I have to do if I need to burn the video to a playable DVD ? ( my vegas doesn't have the DVD buring plugin)
Any inputs will be highly appreciated.

 

[Lowlypawn]

Since no one else has responded I'll give it a shot even thou it's probably too late.

I have burned DVDs using MP4 files/H.264 and they played fine on my two DVD players. So I would send them a "Data DVD" and a "playable DVD" (since DVDs are so cheap). As far as what Codec and container to use. I would use the H.264 codec with a MP4 container. H.264 is considered the most space efficient codec at the moment. But if you want WMV will also work fine and looks good (it seem fairly close to H.264 performance wise, at least in my tests).

So try using Sony AVC or Main concept to render to movies out it. Render setting will depend on a ton of factors like. Source footage, What frame rate? 24P? 30P? Frame size 720 or 1080? I don't know what "24i" files are, Do you mean 24P?

Anyway I have a video that shows the different bit rates. It's mostly for people uploading videos to Youtube but it still may help you, skip to the 7 minute mark to see the same video rendered out 7 times with different bit rates and to the 31:17 to see the test video rendered in other codecs. (or just look in the video description for all the links to the various parts. Let me know if the video was helpful
http://youtu.be/jADhisvtjo0