Pinnacle Studio 11

[Jeremy Ludin]

Does anyone else use this program? I'm still trying to iron out a few rough patches in my video editing, and upgrading to a more dedicated program seemed to be a necessity. The problem I'm having is UNGODLY huge file sizes from video transferred from my HV20. If I mute a clip, the file is still fairly large (30MB for a 2 minute clip), but with audio, it saved for over an hour and only reached 3%. What's the trick to compress video files? I'm hunted around in the help files in PS11 but found nothing. This will become a major issue in the near future for anything over TWO minutes.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Jeremy - you might check out this forum. You can find export settings in the sticky threads at the top for just about any software editor. A lot of it depends on what you are wanting to do ... save back to tape, burn to DVD, or render for web. If you search that forum, chances are you will find what you need. AVI files are big, but HD requires that much more in the way of system resources to render.

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Edit - I just rendered 1 min. 30 seconds worth of video from the HV20 in 30 minutes (with sound), and this was using smaller file export settings for posting video to the internet. So yeah ... if you are going to be rendering large files, you can count on really long rendering times or beefing up the computer to handle the larger files.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Here's the clip I rendered tonight. Just a quick test video.

It took 30 mins. to render, 15 minutes to upload to Vimeo, and about 40 minutes of wait time for Vimeo to finish converting and posting the file. So around an hour or so of work for 1 min. 30 sec. worth of clips, rendered at 1280x720 as a WMV file.

 

[John Wetter]

processor speed and especially your amount of memory have everything to do with rendering time. If your computer needs to use swapdisk to render, it'll take forever, and if you don't have a dual core processor, it'll take a while too. Video rendering is one of the few things that will use all of your memory and processors to their fullest.