Master editors needed :)

[zorstorer]

Stream or any other "pro" editor....what is the best format to save a finished film in?  I would like to keep as much of the video quality while also keeping the final size small.  I use Sony Vegas 5 but there are about, well ALOT of formats to choose from, like .avi's and mpg's.  Any help would be great!!!  Thanks in advance

[bbosen]

I've just discovered Microsoft's free "Windows Media Encoder 9" and I'm having amazing success with it. You can use most video editors to produce your movie in the highest resolution you can manage, then just re-encode it using Windows Media Encoder 9. I'm finding my movies can be compressed MUCH better with this tool than with anything else and they still retain very good resolution. (I wish I had discovered this a few days sooner so my "PigFace" video would be about 12 Megabytes instead of 30 Megs.)


Check out the free download here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx



-Peabody-

[zorstorer]

will look into that bbosen, thanks


LOL check out the city names for us....Pittsburgh for me Pittsburg for you

You know the feds back in the very early 1900's tried to standardize the way "-burgh" was spelled...and your way won out  There are even a few buildings here that don't have the H on em.  Kinda cool

[bbosen]

Roger that....


'round here we don't need that "H" at all!

I wonder how many Pittsburg*.* towns there are?


-Peabody-

[o0Stream140o]

Originally posted by zorstorer
Stream or any other "pro" editor....what is the best format to save a finished film in?  I would like to keep as much of the video quality while also keeping the final size small.  I use Sony Vegas 5 but there are about, well ALOT of formats to choose from, like .avi's and mpg's.  Any help would be great!!!  Thanks in advance

Depends on how big you want your file to be... I usually use .avi and encode it with divx.