[tekneons]

Hi,

Apologies if this has been asked before, I've searched through the forum but no luck yet finding an answer.

I have recently got a Sony SR10 and took a minutes footage in HD which comes around 90 Mb. I've since then edited in on Sony Vegas by adding music and text. When I try and make a movie using the following settings the output file size turns to be around 780 MB. The settings I use are

Format - MainConcept MPEG-2
Template - HDV 720-25P

I'm completely new to all this . Can someone point me in the right direction, I will be playing these files on my PS3 through USB are writing it in a DVD and would want to retain the picture quality.

Thanks

[StevieBuck]

That does seem quite high. What are the bitrate settings under the video encoder tab? Maybe these are set to a constant bitrate and at the highest value possible giving you a large files size.

Also check the audio settings tab - this often defaults to uncompressed PCM audio which will also push up the final file size by a fair bit. I normally use Dolby Digital as the output for my audio.

[dave_bass5]

Maybe try the Sony AVC templates rather than mpeg.
These will play back fine on the PS3

[StevieBuck]

Originally Posted by dave_bass5

Maybe try the Sony AVC templates rather than mpeg.
These will play back fine on the PS3

I remember looking into these, but I thought they were SD only.

I've converted my AVCHD files to the MainConcept MPEG-2 format before, using the 1440*1080 resolution template as that's what my camera records in. I was able to create a working blu-ray with that output no problem. Well I don't have a blu-ray burner yet, so burned it to a DVD-R. If I remember correctly, a DVD-R held about 20mins of video in that format.

[dave_bass5]

No.
AVC is Sony's version of AVCHD (H.264) and thats what flash based HD camcorders like the Canon HF10 record in.

[tekneons]

Thanks Stevie and Dave for your responses.

I'm a bit novice in Sony vegas yet, So can you point me where can I check the video render settings you have been talking about?

Also I did try using Sony AVC Format and it renders to mp4 format and not m2ts also the file size is again huge - 335 MB for a minute's video. (Selecting the Blu-Ray 1440*1080-50i, 8Mbps stream)

[dave_bass5]

Originally Posted by tekneons

Thanks Stevie and Dave for your responses.

I'm a bit novice in Sony vegas yet, So can you point me where can I check the video render settings you have been talking about?

Also I did try using Sony AVC Format and it renders to mp4 format and not m2ts also the file size is again huge - 335 MB for a minute's video. (Selecting the Blu-Ray 1440*1080-50i, 8Mbps stream)

Im also pretty much a novice as well but i have worked my way through a few things in Vegas.
If you are just using the built-in template for the above file then that size seems about right.
HD stuff is huge. Thats why HD films come on 50GB BD and not DVD's.

To make the output a .m2ts this is what you do.
When you go to render using the template above go in to custom and then system, here you can change the format from .mp4 to .m2ts.

[StevieBuck]

I just checked this when I got home and sure enough there are HD templates next to the AVC format output.

I still have an older version of Vegas installed on my machine and checked it on that as well - but it only has SD output resolutions in the templates and the 'custom' button is greyed out.

Seems this was something I missed in the newer version, so thanks for pointing it out.

[dave_bass5]

No problem.
My one complaint with MSP 8 was that you couldn't output full HD with that version, i had to go and get the Pro version just to do that.
Now i see you can do it with MSP v9. I might give it a try. Pro is way over the top for what i need.