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Does anyone use Sony Vegas Studio for video editing?

by bwall
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If you use Sony Vegas Studio to edit your screen capture videos, what settings do you use for rendering videos?

I have Vegas Platinum 9.0 and Cam Studio screen capture software.
The problem is that when I render a 30 second video in AVI, I either end up with a 150 meg to 1 gig AVI file that is good quality or a 50 meg AVI file that is poor quality.

What settings should I use for a good quality AVI video that is not a huge file size.

Or, should I render the videos in a format other than AVI?

I appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks,

Ben
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  • Profile picture of the author TimGross
    AVI files are huge. If you want to burn to DVD render as MPG2, if you want small file size that you can put online, MP4 may be best, WMV (Windows format) creates small files if you're just sending them to someone.

    There are lots of tips for getting best quality versus file size, and the trade-offs. Google creative cow vegas if you want to find lots of helpful suggestions based on what you're trying to do.
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    • Profile picture of the author IMDetective
      Hi Bwall,

      I use Xilisoft for all my compression of videos, it has so many functions and accepts so many of the most common formats. Go to Xilisoft website
      w w w.xilisoft. c o m

      Sorry I can't put links into posts yet


      Hope it helps you out

      IMDetective
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      • Profile picture of the author TimGross
        Originally Posted by IMDetective View Post

        I use Xilisoft for all my compression of videos, it has so many functions and accepts so many of the most common formats.
        Sorry I can't put links into posts yet
        Ben, your question is about what video format to render videos to using Sony Vegas, and this guy's response is how to convert finished rendered video files to different formats with additional paid software, which is ridiculous when Sony Vegas can render to the appropriate format in the first place. Ignore this post.
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    • Profile picture of the author bwall
      Originally Posted by TimGross View Post

      AVI files are huge. If you want to burn to DVD render as MPG2, if you want small file size that you can put online, MP4 may be best, WMV (Windows format) creates small files if you're just sending them to someone.

      There are lots of tips for getting best quality versus file size, and the trade-offs. Google creative cow vegas if you want to find lots of helpful suggestions based on what you're trying to do.

      Thanks Tim,

      What I want to to is put the videos on a web page so they can be viewed online, but I also want to have them available in a downloadable format such as WMV or AVI.
      It looks like WMV would be a better option for download due to the smaller file size.

      I think that I also need to convert the videos into FLV or SWF so they can be posted on a web page and viewed online but I don't think that I can do that with Sony Vegas.
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      • Profile picture of the author TimGross
        Originally Posted by bwall View Post

        What I want to to is put the videos on a web page so they can be viewed online, but I also want to have them available in a downloadable format such as WMV or AVI.
        It looks like WMV would be a better option for download due to the smaller file size.
        A lot of sites that used to use flv or swf now use MP4 to embed in websites, I'd start there. Dreamweaver embeds MP4's into a web page (and adds a player) with just a button click. Everyone has their own methods of course.
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        • Profile picture of the author Kevin AKA Hubcap
          Bwall

          I'm guessing that you don't want two versions of the video but one that does double duty(on line and download)

          I'g suggest rendering as an MP4 file which is great for both applications. In fact Adobe's flash player will play MP4 files and you'll get the best of both world's..small file sizes and high quality.

          Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author Raydal
    I get the same huge increase in size except when I use WMV. I guess you
    can always compress later, but for my YoutUbe videos I use SV to render
    in the WMV format and the file sizes are pretty decent. (under 100 MB for
    a 10 minute video.)

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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Bartlett
    swf and flv offer nice file sizes and you can play those files on your PC if you have the right software quite easily.

    Saying that mp4 offers a decent file size and can obviously be played straight away.

    Remember to check the bit rate you are selecting in the application too, alot of people leave this way too high and you can get away with reducing this quite a bit (look for the option) and this will dramatically reduce the file size without much loss of quality. (In alot of cases)

    But yes, MP4 gives you probably the best of both worlds.
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    • Profile picture of the author bwall
      Thanks for all the replies.
      I am going try rendering my vids in MP4.
      It sounds like that format might work well for what I am trying to do.
      Thanks,

      Ben
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  • Profile picture of the author zoomapoint
    Mp4 is good. For best results for wmv I would go directly to Microsoft and download their free Windows Media Encoder 9.0. It will take those avi's and compress them to a much more managable size. Also if that doesn't meet your needs AVS video convertor can do all of it, with a reasonable cost.
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