Rendered files are too large!

ashura · #1 (**permalink**) 07-17-2006, 11:30 PM

I have just finished editing my first video. But when I render it to my hard drive, the size of it is 940 MB! The type of video I had wanted it to be was an AVI, and I tried WMV since it was smaller, but it lost some quality. My video is only 4 mins long. I've seen plenty of videos made using Vegas that were longer than mine and much smaller.

I know it's not the files I'm using, though I am using VOB & IFO files instead of the common AVI's, but I tested what AVIs I had and that one came out to the same amount! The audio I'm using is MP3.

Is there any way to make it a smaller size without losing quality? I know all about the custom settings you can use, but I'm a noob at this and I'm not sure what the best settings are.

Much appreciated to anyone who can help me out on this!

Thanks in advance!

vegasarian · #2 (**permalink**) 07-18-2006, 08:20 AM

Are you going to keep this on your HDD? or make DVD?. You could try MPEG2.

Mark W · #3 (**permalink**) 07-18-2006, 10:28 AM

It is best to keep a DV render of any wk as a master copy. 1 gig for 4 mins is normal.

I then make different versions from that. If you insist on only keeping a smaller copy then a wmv version with a variable bit rate with an average rate of around 2mbit will give the same quality as a dv version.