Video Studio Plus

[TRUMPETMAN123]

Hi,
I using a Samsung DV Camcorder and going to the computer 1394. I am using Ulead Studio 11 Plus. After downloading 6 minutes of video the size of the video is over a giga bite. The files are too big to do anything with. What can I do to resolve this. I tried conversion batch but the quality was so bad in a windows media file.[/b]

[Black Lab]

Sounds like you are capturing uncompressed avi. You want to make sure capture is set for dv-avi, which is about 13 GB per hour.

EDIT: Actually, being the math wiz I am , 1 GB for 6 minutes sounds like it might be dv-avi.

6 minutes x 10 = 60 minutes or 1 hour.
1 GB x 10 = 10 GB or pretty darn close (as GBs go) to 13 GB per hour

[Ken Berry]

Black Lab -- In fact, I suspect he *is* already capturing DV -- more than 1 GB for 6 minutes is 10+ GB for an hour... and as you say, 13 GB is standard for 1 hour of DV... Uncompressed .AVI runs at 1 GB per *minute*!

Trumpetman -- that is a basic lesson you have to learn. DV is huge, yes, but it is excellent quality and the best format to edit your video in. After editing, depending what you want to do with it, you convert it to another format e.g. mpeg-2 for a DVD.

If space is really an issue, in order of priority I would (1) buy a bigger hard disk for your DV captures; or (2) capture in DVD compatible mpeg-2 format. Just be aware that if you do that, you need a decent computer to do the conversion smoothly on the fly from your camera to the computer. And mpeg-2 is not really meant to be edited much. Problems arise for some people in the form, at the least, of out of sync audio and video. That is why special programs were developed specifically to edit mpeg-2. VS can do the job adequately, but problems can arise -- just be aware of that too.

The basic lesson though is that video editing is a very resource hungry process...

[Black Lab]

Great minds again, Ken, although mine wasn't working correctly when I first replied.

[TRUMPETMAN123]

Thanks for the information.
Disk space is not a problem. I have an out board 600 gig hard drive that I run all of my editing and downloads. My company asked me to post 7 training videos on u-tube for corporate training that will be linked to our corporate website. U-tude requires no more than a 10 minute video clip/session. My clips are under 10 minutes but the size of the clips are a giga bite average. Will it make a difference on u-tube or do you know.

[Black Lab]

YouTube only accepts videos in certain formats, dv-avi is not one of them. When you render the video to comply with a YouTube format it will be compressed to a smaller file size.

Read this thread about rendering for YouTube.
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=21263

[sjj1805]

SUBJECT: Please use a subject that describes your exact problem instead of making us guess what's in your post.

Sorry if you this sounds like I am telling you off - I am not.
You can alter the title by using the button on your first post.

The purpose of providing a meaningful title is this.
There are a number of members on the forum who try and help troubleshoot problems - myself included. In the early days of the user forum it was not too difficult to be able to read all of the posts submitted since the last time I (or one of the other troubleshooters) had logged on.

On the Forum Home page at the top right is a link
view posts since last visit In the forums early days this would perhaps range between 10-30 posts. Today however the board has grown in popularity and more products are now catered for including the former Intervideo products before the merger with Ulead.

There have been days when I have logged on to find over 70 new posts since my last visit. It is of course impossible to read each and every one of them and so it is necessary to look at the titles to pick out posts where I feel I am able to offer some worthwhile input.

if you are viewing perhaps the VideoStudio forum and a post is entitled
"VideoStudio" - it doesn't really give you a clue, similarly in the PhotoImpact forum a post entitled [PhotoImpact] is equally as meaningless.

Giving a post a suitable title is a means of helping us to help you.

[sjj1805]

Regarding You Tube.
If you have installed the FREE upgrade to VideoStudio 11.5 Plus then there now is a built in option to export your video directly to YouTube in a pre-defined format set up by Corel.



Alternative options:
VideoStudio: Rendering for You Tube.

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