Rendering

[kalvindeane]

I've been told that rendering avi files can reduce their size somewhat, is there some sort of newbies guide to this? Got some 2minute videos that are 677mb and I want to reduce them without losing quality. Plus learning about rendering is handy!

 

[Chaos]

You can use different compression to reduce file size, xvid and mp4 are pretty popular.
You could try messing about with format factory and playing with the output settings.

http://www.formatoz.com/

 

[FabienO]

I found out using Cyberlink Powerdirector's auto render for "youtube" the size reduction is phenominal and the quality remains strong. Could google around to see how they do it..?

 

[steve-h]

When I was into video editing x264 was where it was at. Render as wav/avi uncompressed and then mux them together with megui.

 

[gord]

Just to assist with your searching, you are actually encoding rather than rendering. If you are actually rendering, I suggest rendering to a high quality wmv or similar and then encode that for better compression, which is what I assume you are doing.

As for encoding, it depends on what it is for and what quality loss you are happy with.

The most powerful encoder I know of is ffmpeg, but it doesn't have a GUI, which throws a lot of people off. This does though, and it uses ffmpeg in the background.

My favourite codec: h.264
My favourite containers: mp4, flv

http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=223507