Saving as AVI

ksweett · Post by **ksweett** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:23 am

Can I save my movie as an avi without having to burn to a DVD??

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:32 am

Hi Ksweett, welcome to the forums,

Yes you can, however I must ask, Do you mean a full uncompressed AVI, which uses 65 gig per hour of video? OR are meaning a DV (avi), 13 gig per hour? Then there are several other highly compressed formats (DivX, XviD, MPEG-4) that are contained in an AVI wrapper.

What format are your video clips? If they are DV (avi) then just go to Share>Create Video File, and select Same as First video clip, or if your Project Properties match your video properties (which they should) select Same as Project settings.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:29 am

Perhaps you need to let us know what you intend to do with your saved video.

ksweett · Post by **ksweett** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:05 am

I'm sorry didn't even think about being more specific I'm after an xvid or the like I need the compession.

I've tried clicking on save as but it doesn't give me any option apart from saving it as a video studio file...

It needs to be able to eventually fit onto one DVD

ksweett · Post by **ksweett** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:09 am

The video files that are in the movie are avi, but when it's looking for the first video clip will it look for the first image I've put in the movie or for the first actual video clip?? because I have photo's before the first video clip

ksweett · Post by **ksweett** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:25 am

OK, I saved it to an avi based on your instrctions vidoman thankyou heaps but, it hasn't saved the music and it's really small any advice??

ksweett · Post by **ksweett** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:26 am

oh and the frame size is set at 720 x 480.

And it's really quite fuzzy aswell

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:27 am

ksweett wrote:.....It needs to be able to eventually fit onto one DVD

Do you mean you are going to save it as an avi on a DVD 'DATA' disk or do you intend to create a DVD that will play in a standalone DVD player - like the films you buy from the shops?

If so you need to save the video in DVD compatible MPEG2 format and not avi.

The VideoStudio equivalant of xvid or divx is MPEG4 a highly compressed format and good for sharing stuff over the internet.
You can use DixX with videoStudio if you view this tutorial by sood_aj
Encoding in DivX format using Video Studio

ksweett · Post by **ksweett** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:38 am

I intend to create a DVD that will play in a standalone DVD player

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:40 am

Please view:
From Camcorder to DVD with VideoStudio

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:21 am

Is your stand-alone DVD player rated to play DivX discs? Until recently, not many players had this rating.

And of course you would need the DivX or Xvid codecs on your computer before you could create an avi container file using those formats...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:28 am

PLUS, are you supplying copies of your discs to friends/family or even customers. If so will THEIR DVD player be rated as mentioned by Ken.

ksweett · Post by **ksweett** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:20 am

DVD will be going to family and yes their DVD players will play DivX...

I managed to save it but it's not showing any video, only the music and one of them that I tried is causing WMP to crash as it's trying to open the file...

I'm really lost, this is my first attempt at Video Studio.. *sigh*

blplhp · Post by **blplhp** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:57 pm

Hi ksweett,

Please provide us with your Project Properties settings and your Created Video File properties. Your Project Properties settings can be found in File|Project Properties, then look in the Project Template Properties window of the dialog box that pops up and copy and paste all of the setting information to your post reply.

Do the same for the video file properties by clicking on the Share Step, then click on Create Video File, and in the pop-up box that comes up, select the same template you used to create your video file and a Create Video File dialog box will pop up. Go to the Properties: window within that dialog box and copy and paste all of the settings to your post reply.

This way, we can see more about what's going on with your processess.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:59 pm

Have you tried burning your DivX file(s) to a CD? That was their original attraction -- fitting a movie, or a substantial part of one, on a CD as opposed to a DVD. That is my only experience to date as I have not had DivX files of sufficient size to warrant burning on a DVD. I can't think of why they might not work though.

Some older DivX DVD players were also, I think, restricted to DivX files produced with the DivX 5 codec, but I thought this had been corrected in more recent updates of the DivX 6 codecs. It certainly seems to be, at least with the pro version/Create Bundle...