Best Video File Type For Rendering With Song Vegas 9

[dazuk1972]

Does anyone know the best video file type for rendering with Song Vegas 9? I have a movie that I made at two hours and five minutes and when I render on MPEG1 I get interlace in the picture quality but the size of the file is fine. When I render under MPEG2, the picture quality is 100% perfect but the size of the file is just under 4GB's and that is too big. When I try AVI the interlace is back and the file is still way too big and when I try MOV the interlace is back and the file is still way too big and the same with MPEG4. I believe MPEG4 is for HD.

It seems everytime I get the size of the file at a decent size there's interlace involved and when I use MPEG2 and get 100% picture quality the file is still way too big.

I hope I don't have to split this movie of mine into two parts with one part on each disc. DVD's can hold up to three-and-a-half hours at least and when I want to do my home movie just over two hours it's seems way to big to fit. I don't want to buy 8'5GB DVD discs just for one movie of mine.

Can anyone help, please?

Many thanks.

[wcbncal]

4 GB will usually fit a DVD5 (4.7GB) disk. What is the problem?
Note, NTSC is an interlaced format.

I use Sony Vagas Movie Studio 9 Platinum regularly, and do not have a problem. You should be aware that the companion menu program, Vagas DVD Architect Studio can recompress the video (fit to disk) so that the whole thing will fit. Also, I find that a very simple menu is a big aid. I use only a background picture, and one button - "play". So, very little disk space us used.

There are other procedures that are very effective (but can't be discussed here).

[dazuk1972]

4 GB will usually fit a DVD5 (4.7GB) disk. What is the problem?
Note, NTSC is an interlaced format.

I use Sony Vagas Movie Studio 9 Platinum regularly, and do not have a problem. You should be aware that the companion menu program, Vagas DVD Architect Studio can recompress the video (fit to disk) so that the whole thing will fit. Also, I find that a very simple menu is a big aid. I use only a background picture, and one button - "play". So, very little disk space us used.

There are other procedures that are very effective (but can't be discussed here).

I'm not talking about DVD files to fit on a DVD, I'm talking about a video file that will convert to the DVD files ready for burning to a DVD. Also, I use PAL so I don't know why interlace is appearing on everything apart from MPEG2.

When you mentioned about other procedures that can't be discussed here, I'm aware of rule 19 but I don't know why this will effect that rule because I'm talking about a home movie.

[atifsh]

if u want dvd structure, for standalone dvd players, use mpeg2 dvd standard and set the encoding rate as u like, iv seen and tried dvd's with between 4000 to 5000 bitrate still shows good quality and u get more on disk.

try xvid, divx and set round 1500 bitrate to get decent quality, and that also can be played on divx standalone dvd players.

anything else u cannot play on standalone dvd players.

whatever software ur using , use option that says progressive or use option de-interlace, whichever available to get rid of interlace lines.

[wcbncal]

PAL is also an interlaced format.

You just use the PAL presets in place of NTSC.

In any case, you need to use a format that your player understands.