9 minute 23 GB movie!?

Question

last week, I made a 9 minute film on a DV camera and edited it with simple video editing software. I added a few credited and fancy transitions. The movie went in at 400 MB, but was finally rendered to 23.1 GB. It's slowed down my computer tremendously, and I obviously can't put it on a dvd. How's this possible?

Answer number one: That's just silly, have you e'er heard of a video of 23 GB! Feature length films are right at 4 GB!

I'm using screenblast movie studio, which is now discontinued. The format is non other than .AVI, all of the clips went in .AVI.

Answer 1

I think I know exactly what's wrong. A similar thing happened to me. I think when you rendered your movie, you rendered it uncompressed. Uncompressed comes in many different flavors, such as .avi or .mov. So it might say avi but it doesn't necessarily mean it's compressed, because from the size of the file, it's probably not. The easy fix to this is to double check all settings before rendering (as I learned the hard way). So this means you'll have to re-render, obviously. Hope this helps! BTW, answerer 1 is crazy, I totally agree with you.

Answer 2

Greetings,

It's hard to tell exactly what happened to your video. But let me shoot in the dark a little.

The format that you choose to render into might be wrong. But more likely, you did what I did once. I had one of my video editors open, I had my hour long video on the time line, I added some music near the end of the video, I then edited my video down to like 2 minutes and forget that my music was a hour down the time line.

When I rendered the 2 minute video, it really made a hour long video with nothing in the video field. But it you played it, it would be black and then you'd hear music at the end!

But... There are so many possibilities to your question. It's difficult to answer without asking you questions.

Have you played the 23Gb video? What format is it playing it? How long is the video? Does the format play ok? What editor are you using? etc etc...

Jeff

Answer 3

Most of my miniDV tapes are anywhere from 12GB to 22GB. That is known as RAW video editing. No loss in quality.

HERE's your Answer:
You need to convert the video to MPEG-2 format (*.mpg), which is the DVD standard. All commercial DVDs that you rent are DVD-9, which hold twice as much as the regular blank DVDs that you probably buy for yourself.

Since you have already edited the video with credits and did a nice job, convert the video to MPEG-2, or use the editor (that one that you already used) and save the movie as a NTSC DVD standard MPEG-2.

Download these programs:
DVDlab Pro (creates DVD menus)
Subtitle Workshop (optional if you want DVD sub titles)
Ulead MediaStudio (Another editor that makes MPEG-2)
Nero Burning ROM (Burns VOB files, created by DVDlab Pro)

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Answer 4

try to upload it to google video. It almost sounds like you might have a virus. If you upload it to google, you won't even have to have it on your computer, just save it in your favorites. All the extra options for transitions and credits are high graphic intensive and cause the "blow up". Give that a shot, google video is the only place I have found for free uploads of movies over 3 minutes. Couldn't hurt. and you can also make it private.