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loren · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 157 Location: Connecticut

I recently purchased a Canon HV20 and Vegas 7 software.

I just took an 11 second video (tripod, of course) of a duck entering/swimming in a pond at HD 1080i (I think), ran it into Vegas 7 and did nothing else but render it into a quicktime .mov file.

The file is almost 1/2 a gb in size.
Is that size file too large to upload here?

Provided it's properly exposed, etc, can I normally expect a clip taken right from the camera and then rendered to a useable format with no other pp to be useable here, or will I often have to do a lot of other pp (that I do really understand how to do yet)?

chadchud · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 510 Location: London, England

hi

half a gig sounds about right, although you would be able to compress that smaller. Unfortunately, HD files are massive!

Personally, I don't use much PP on my clips other than clipping them to a certain length. The only time I will use PP is on green screen shots (of yet which none I have uploaded!) just to make the image a bit more 'compatible'.

I'm pretty certain files are accepted upto 1GB, but personally, I have uploaded bigger. You just need to remember that the customer probably won't want to wait 5hrs for it to download on a slow connection!

hope this helps

Chad

loren · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 157 Location: Connecticut

Thanks for your quick reply Chad.
Guess I'll use it as my first attempt at video here and see what kind of response I get from the reviewers.

Either way I think I'll learn something.

chadchud · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 510 Location: London, England

give it a go!

nothing beats that first sale and the realisation that it's quicker to make your first million with footage*

*haven't quite got to a million yet, but i'm working on it!