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  • dazuk1972
    Digital Video Specialist
    Digital Video Specialist
    • Jul 2005
    • 853

    Files Always Too Large

    What is the best software for editing video. Everytime I edit video the AVI files come out way to big. For example, a two-minute video of mine was over 800MB's. When I run it through Cyberlink Power Director where I changed the file type to MPEG the size of the file shrunk right down to just over 2MB's. That was much better but another problem comes in. The screen size shrinks down to 352x240 and when I play my videos in my DVD machines the picture quality is horrific. The reason why the file size is much smaller is because each frame of film is a smaller-sized image for each and when it was 720x(whatever the other number is), that used more disc space to make it over 800MB's. Why does this keep on happening? When I sort one problem out another is there. I can't change the screen size settings in the software and it I do it might be over 800MB's. When I edited a twenty-minute video it was even too big to burn on a DVD disc.

    Others can do this but why can't I? What is the best software for editing? Windows Movie Maker is useless as well.

    Many thanks.
  • paglamon
    Lord of Digital Video
    Lord of Digital Video
    • Aug 2005
    • 2126

    #2
    CPD does have options to customize the output video resolutions,bitrate etc.
    I find both Ulead Video Studio and Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good at video editing and customising outputs.
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    • dazuk1972
      Digital Video Specialist
      Digital Video Specialist
      • Jul 2005
      • 853

      #3
      Originally Posted by paglamon
      CPD does have options to customize the output video resolutions,bitrate etc.
      I find both Ulead Video Studio and Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good at video editing and customising outputs.
      Many thanks for the help. I'll download the trials of what you mentioned to see how I get on with them. Also, where is the setting in CPD for this. A lot of my settings are greyed out when I have something edited and ready to produce.

      At the moment I have half-hour home movies that have filled DVD discs and they have wasted so much of each disc and I'd rather put as many home movies on to one disc. Even though what I've done are on recordables and those previous ones might as well stay but I want to avoid wasting more disc space on each disc.

      Many thanks.

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      • atifsh
        Lord of Digital Video
        Lord of Digital Video
        • May 2003
        • 1534

        #4
        what version of power director ur using?
        Seems like as soon you buy somehing, v. 2 comes out 1.5 times as fast!..!

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