Footage question

SharkTrager · Post by **SharkTrager** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:52 pm

Hi all,

I've just got VS9 and absolutely love it. Successfully edited and burned my first movie. What a dream to work with.

However there is one small area that the manual doesn't really deal with and I want to throw out a question to other VS users.

I've uploaded my footage from camera to VS9. I've created my project and then saved it as a video file. Then I've burned it to DVD. I want to burn it again and keep the movie on my computer for a while but it's all taking up a lot of space. So can I delete the uploaded footage (files called UVS05092 etc.) but keep the rendered video file to burn again or do I have to keep everything on my computer? I don't need to do any re-editing.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks

Mark

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:22 am

Hi
Once you have 'Created a Video File' of your project you can delete the captured footage files. Provided you dont wnat to edit further.

Your new video file is a single Mpeg 2 file of your project., Which you use to burn your movie.

When i want multiple copies of my video i create an Image File (*.iso)
This makes a complete copy of my movie, menus and all.
I use the Vcd/Dvd Image Recorder to burn additional copies.

Start/ Programs/ Disc image recorder.

Trevor

TubaDad · Post by **TubaDad** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:02 pm

A little different than Trevor, I use the "Create DVD Folders" option when creating a disk. In fact, I quit using UVS9 to burn discs. I know it works fine for everyone, but I ran into some problems with it early on and now I just create the folders, verify I got what I want using WinDVD and then burn it with Nero from the folders. One of the advantages I see is that I can use another program, like WinDVD to verify what I have before burning the disk. Another big benefit that I have several computers networked to this one and I shared out my folder that I keep the "virtual DVDs" in. Now without having a DVD player on their PCs my kids can also watch the DVDs on their computers.

After I have it matered and I know I am not going to reedit it, I delete all of the original AVI files. Another nice thing about doing this, and it works with Trevors way too, when I need hard drive space, I just burn a couple of DVDs and archive them for later.

This works for my situation and I like having the video folders easily accessible, both Trevor's and my way take up drive space, but you can get rid of the huge AVI files.