whats the best settings for the best quality, without it being like 7 gigs.
I currently get a 70 gig estimated file size. WTF. somethings wrong there
creating videos
Re: creating videos
70 gigs is right for 37 minutes of SD footage at "best quality". Whenever you compress footage using a lossy scheme such as DV or DVD (MPEG) you lose quality. SmartRender means that you can work with your footage without losing quality by unnecessary renders, but if you're going to work on a piece of footage repeatedly, and render out your changes several times, the only way to maintain quality is to work on footage that is uncompressed, or compressed with a lossless codec. Uncompressed is over 30 MB per second, so that's the price you pay for quality.cyprusx wrote:whats the best settings for the best quality, without it being like 7 gigs.
I currently get a 70 gig estimated file size. WTF. somethings wrong there
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Re: creating videos
Uncompressed AVI (Audio/Video Interleaved) = 65 Gigabytes per hour (Approx.)cyprusx wrote:whats the best settings for the best quality, without it being like 7 gigs.
I currently get a 70 gig estimated file size. WTF. somethings wrong there
Therefore various compression formats were created named CODECs
COmpression
DECompression
Your choice of CODEC depends on what you intend to do with your video.
MiniDV camcorders use the codec named DV (Digital Video) which uses approx 13 GB per hour and is an easily edited format.
Video that is placed on the internet tends to be one of the following
MPEG4
DivX
Xvid
WMV
Quicktime
Not technically a CODEC but you could include Flash.
Video that you place onto a DVD Disc and play in your DVD Player requires MPEG2 - though you can also use MPEG1 but that was something intended more for VCD and SVCD discs (Standard CD's)
