Sony Vegas Studio Questions

[wwswimming]

i have 2 video files that i WAS thinking i could distribute
using Youtube or Photobucket.

but they have a 100 MB or 200 MB limit. 200 MB for
one of the paying customer account types.

is there a file format for Vegas Studio where you can
get about 80% of the "fidelity" for 20% of the file size ?

sort of a "sweet spot" in terms of being a compromise
between image & sound fidelity, and bandwidth
considerations.

is a DVD about 4.5 GB ? thinking out loud - cut the
18 GB in half and somehow, don't know how yet,
get it down to 9 GB, for its 2 parts. then get the
8 GB piece down to 4 GB.

if i can get it down to 3 DVD's ... maybe the best i can do.

are there any places that let you have a lot bigger video
files, without charging too much ?

 

[Modelworks]

About the closest thing that comes to mind would be something using mpeg4.

With mpeg4 you can keep the quality fairly high and average anywhere from 750mb - 1.8GB per hour with frame sizes of 720x480 ntsc 29.97fps.

You would need to download an encoder and give it a try.
Xvid is free and fairly popular.
Then there is the commercial Divx, the last release supports multiple cpus so it encodes a lot faster.

I can't tell you about specific plugins for vegas as I use aavid/premeire mostly.

But you can get virtualdub and xvid for free and run your completed avi through that to transcode. Its also a codec that most people can easily install on their pc if they don't already have it.
http://www.xvid.org/

 

[wwswimming]

thanks a lot.

are you associated with these guys
http://modelworks.com/

is mpeg4 format tied "static" (can't change it)
to that particular screen size (720x480) ?

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: wwswimming
thanks a lot.

are you associated with these guys
http://modelworks.com/

is mpeg4 format tied "static" (can't change it)
to that particular screen size (720x480) ?

Nope, not associated with that domain.
Mpeg4 isn't static, you can use it for almost any size you want to use.

 

[tw1164]

Are you using any compression while you're working w/ it in Vegas? When you put on a DVD (to be viewed w/ a player) its going to be compressed w/ a mpg2 codec.