Hello,
Having created a small Movie about 10 mins now, when i come to create a file I find that the size is 1.9 gb AVI I realise now that before starting the film I should have chosen a format that would have created a smaller file how can I reduce this monster to say 50 or 60 Mb
Thank Jack Stoddart
(allways in trouble) tis the bone thickening between the ears!
That size is just about right for an average DV/AVI format file: we tend to use as a yardstick the fact that an hour of DV/AVI will take up around 13 GB.
It depends what you are intending to do with your file. But assuming you ultimately intend to burn it to, say, DVD, then, with your file in the timeline, you click on Share > Create Video File > DVD (or VCD or SVCD if you intend to ultimately burn either of those types of disc). This will produce a DVD-compliant mpeg-2 file which will be a fraction the size of the original. There are other even smaller formats you could produce, but if you are intending to eventually produce a DVD, then you have to convert your file(s) to DVD-compatible mpeg-2.
Hello Ken
Thank you for your quick reply I still have the old NTSC problem when I click on share they are all NTSC settings so I then click on "same as project settings" the save box gives me no choice other than to save it as an AVI file. As my DVD player in the lounge is Minus and and the recorder as fitted to my computer is Plus I have to save the file as SVCD in order that it wiil play on the DVD!
Oh dear why do they make things so difficult?
regards Jack
Your DVD recorder in the HP Pavilion t650 PC will only burn +RW (Rewriteable media) and +R (Write once media).. This is not a very helpful setup, even with the addition of dual layer capability.. but not uncommon with the big PC producers, I have to say.. Your DVD Player in your lounge may be specified to only play DVDRom and DVD-R disks in DVD format. This isn't very helpful either, but at least DVD-R is the most common write-once media in use anyway... albeit your DVD recorder sadly doesn't support it.
VCD and SVCD is normally written to CDR or CDRW, so your 1.8GB in that case would be too large... You would have to cut your project down to around 650MB (for 700 MB blanks) when re-rendered. I should point out that unless your consumer DVD player supports CDR or CDRW, it may still not be able to play your disk... even if rendered and burned as a VCD or SVCD..
Jack... I would seriously consider recycling one of the two offending devices.... probably the DVD recorder, because this represents less capital loss. Replace this with a reputable DVD Writer that supports all write once and rewriteable media, is dual layer and comes with Book-type management support software.. The latter enables you to modify the 4 bit ID header on the lead-in of DVD+R or +RW recordable disks so that they finally appear as DVDRom, and can fool many other contrary players into playing them... My Panasonic DVD player that is hooked up to my TV system doesn't support any recordable CD/DVD media at all, but will play DVD+R/RW disks disguised as DVDRom quite happily..
You are exactly right about the complicated road that manufacturers seem to have gone down... There are large gaps between the main engineering groups. Each seem jealous of the other being able to benefit from their individual gains in technology.... whereas if they combined these, it might lead to far better advances in industry standards..
Perhaps when Ken comes back on, he will take the lead on your Project settings dilemma, as I am still pottering around with the templates enigma myself, and reluctant to make any comment just yet..
check if your burner supports a "Book Type" setting -- that will make it more compatible, and maybe your discs will play on your dvd player with the setting of dvd-rom.
Which version of VS9 are you using -- Full, Trial, SE, etc...
In the Full version (and probably other versions as well), there should be a Disc Authoring tool that will let you add the .avi file you have already created, and author it for disc (DVD, SVCD, VCD...).
As for your "Same as Project Settings" problem, you can solve it by going to File > Project Properties AFTER you have the video in the Timeline, and switching the properties to MPEG ones. You have to go in with "Edit" and change settings under the two right-hand tabs.
THEN come out, click OK, and go to Share > Create Video File > Same as Project Properties. You've just set those properties to MPEG (even though the file is an AVI) and so now VideoStudio will create a new MPEG file for you. It'll join the AVI file on your hard drive, so you will need space for it.
Hello kebrinton,
Thank you for your help I now have the movie as an MPEG and it is 590 Mb as against 1.9 Gb it arrived in My Music folder How I do not no!
Hello George W The version i am using at the moment is the trial version. I am not sure if my recorder supports a book type setting, the burner /recorder fitted to my computer is a H/P DVD writer +RW 8x double layer. Now hopefully when i get the full version of studio 9 (see elsewhere on the forum) up and running I will hopefully beable to get everything sorted out.
Regards
Jack
