Vidding Question

[hells_half_acre]

Does anyone know anything about rendering? 

I'm doing a vid-project (for personal use only)...and when I go to "produce" my vid, it takes forever and gives me a file that is 2+ GB, which doesn't make any sense to me since the source file isn't even that big and what I'm producing is shorter.

I was just wondering if anyone could give me any tips...should I be producing only into .wmv format instead of .avi or mpeg4? What gives?

Any help would be appreciated!

Comments

[raloria.livejournal.com]

Right, but depending on what you're saving it as, it could be bigger in file size than the original.

Some video file types are always going to be bigger than others.

Mkv - big, HQ
Mov - big
Avi - big, still HQ (in most cases)
Mp4 - smaller
Wmv - smaller

Yeah, I'd try the wmv. It shouldn't take too long, depending on how long your video is and what settings you use.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

You were right. .wmv makes much more sense in terms of file size. I set it at DVD quality and got something that was 760MB, which makes much more sense for a half-hour movie.

I can see the difference in quality between mpeg4 and wmv, but for the purposes of this project, I don't really have to have top quality picture - and it just makes more sense to conserve space.

Thanks so much for the help! :)