best way to render ?

lizard wrote on 1/30/2005, 4:40 AM

hey im rendering my film it is in mpeg4 wen its done it only goes for liek 10 mins but is like 1.6 gb i rendered it as avi and alson its is really really laggy and glitchy its reall bad . wat compression should i use and wat format thx heaps in advance

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ScottW wrote on 1/30/2005, 8:19 AM

Just like the other poster who recently asked this question - what is your target delivery method? If it's DVD Video, then you should render as an MPEG-2 video (using PAL or NTSC as appropriate) and AC3 audio.

If it's for the Web, then Windows Media can be a good format.

pb wrote on 1/30/2005, 8:30 AM

The free Microsoft Windows Media 9 encoder is significantly faster than rendering wmvs from within Vegas and has a batch feature so your PC can render while you sleep. I think I may have seen posts about having several instances of Vegas open concurrently to render and while that is okay for mixed output formats, if all is to beWindows Media, the extra overhead brought about by multi-Vegas isn't worth it.

Main Concept 1.4 is another good one: batch render MPEG1 or several variations of MPEG2 4:3 or 16:9. Doesn't offer AC3 but in many cases, who cares? For Training type DVDs which contain dozens or hundreds of short MPEG2 files, batch is the only way to go.

Peter

Coursedesign wrote on 1/30/2005, 10:13 AM

The glitches and laggy video play are because you have encoded to a higher bit rate than your CPU can decode in realtime.

As the others said, MPEG-2 for DVD and Windows Media 9 for web delivery.

DVD players can handle up to 8 Mbps bit rates safely (the standard goes higher than that, but not all players work properly).

There are lots of posts on this board about what settings to use for best quality under different circumstances.

For web delivery, you need to think about the viewers' internet access. 256-300Kbps is often a decent compromise for web encoding. Those on dial-up will have to download rather than stream, but that is widely accepted today.

Lots of posts on this here also.

lizard wrote on 1/31/2005, 12:20 AM

thx pplz ntsc means widescreen right ?

ScottW wrote on 1/31/2005, 4:58 AM

No, ntsc does not mean wide screen. It stands for Never The Same Color - just kidding. NTSC is a video format used in North America. PAL is a format used in most of the rest of the world.