Video Encoding?

[Daniel0898]

Alright, so I record videos with Dxtory and edit them in Sony Vegas 13. With my settings, Dxtory records huge files up to 100gbs for only an hours worth of recordings.

 

Originally I didn't really care because I had enough storage for about 6 hours of video. So mind mindset was this: record about two hours, edit, render, and then boom, no more huge files, and I have a line-up of videos ready for Youtube.

 

Well I guess I was wrong because I had a  rendered 1 minute and 54 second video (As a test) that was 217 mbs D: 

 

I can't have this file size because I'm going to rapidly run out of room, and with a measly 3mbs upload speed, these videos will never see Youtube.

 

I heard of software that can take your video and compress it to make a much smaller file size, without damaging quality to much, but I don't know what to use.

 

If anyone can help that would be great, thanks!

[Enderman]

when you render a video in sony vegas you get to choose the codec...

 

that compresses it already

 

since you need to compress it anyway just record with a different codec in the first place to make smaller file sizes, like h264 or something

then editing and rendering it will be quicker

[RZeroX]

Use a different codec like magicyuv or lagarith.

[Daniel0898]

when you render a video in sony vegas you get to choose the codec...

 

that compresses it already

 

since you need to compress it anyway just record with a different codec in the first place to make smaller file sizes, like h264 or something

then editing and rendering it will be quicker

 

 

Use a different codec like magicyuv or lagarith.

Alright so I ran another test file and Sony Vegas shrunk a 27.5 gb file into a 2.1gb file. So I guess it's all good. Thanks for the help though