quick software question...

21bumpstreet.com · #1 (**permalink**) 11-08-2005, 09:58 PM

Hi,

I am looking for a program to compress my movie files. I understand by lowering the megabites you lower the quality. I am using sony vegas 6. When I render my video file about 1 minute with mpeg2 encodement, it comes out to about 33 megs. I am looking for an encoder which would take that 33 meg file and shrink it ot about 2 megs so I can link it on the web. Is there a setting to adjust in vegas to do this?

thanks in advance,
nick

Marc Peters · #2 (**permalink**) 11-08-2005, 10:01 PM

You need to use an MPEG4 codec such as WMV, Xvid or DivX.

21bumpstreet.com · #3 (**permalink**) 11-08-2005, 10:06 PM

Have you worked with all of these? Which do you find to be the most reliable to use? Which do you recommend?

thanks marc
nick

Marc Peters · #4 (**permalink**) 11-08-2005, 10:11 PM

Xvid is the techies choice. Chances are you won't understand the options, but techies love it. DivX is a commerical choice, but not universally supported by windows without downloading the relevant codec (a user may not have the relevant codec). WMV is the natural choice for the non-technical and virtually guaranteed to play on XP.