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DekeDeke Posts: 1,631
edited December 1969 in Art Studio

I created a 8 second shot in Daz Studio and rendered it at 1920x1080. Then I added some motion blur in AE and rendered there at full res. The result was a file size of over 2 gigs. Transcoded this in MPEG Streamclip to a Prores codec so it's smaller now, but is that common for shots? I plan on editing in Premiere so maybe saving the AE render at full size was a mistake and I should just output everything in Prores (or some other codec?).

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  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    edited December 1969

    dkutzera said:
    I created a 8 second shot in Daz Studio and rendered it at 1920x1080. Then I added some motion blur in AE and rendered there at full res. The result was a file size of over 2 gigs. Transcoded this in MPEG Streamclip to a Prores codec so it's smaller now, but is that common for shots? I plan on editing in Premiere so maybe saving the AE render at full size was a mistake and I should just output everything in Prores (or some other codec?).

    avi files can get big - I do all my editing then use MS Video editor to save as WMA ( which are small )
    I have gone from 1G to 75m or smaller .

  • DekeDeke Posts: 1,631
    edited December 1969

    Thanks. Glad I'm not the only one. I'm on a Mac so I'm looking for the best Apple codec. Right now looks like ProRes Lt.

  • NealFNealF Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I just did my first 5 second video render at 1920 x 1080 and it was over 300 megs.
    It also didn't render the backdrop but left an alpha channel hole there instead.
    So I'm assuming DAZ renders video with the animation codec.

    Is this true? It would be great to be able to pick a codec.

  • Kevin SandersonKevin Sanderson Posts: 1,643
    edited December 1969

    I only render to video if I'm using OpenGL if I need a quick and dirty motion check. All other animations are rendered as a sequence of frames and I import the sequence in Vegas and render out what I want.

  • NealFNealF Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Thanks. It looks like that's the best option.
    I think once I have the image sequence I can open in Final Cut Pro and export it as a ProRes, if I'm not mistaken.

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited September 2014

    dkutzera said:
    I created a 8 second shot in Daz Studio and rendered it at 1920x1080. Then I added some motion blur in AE and rendered there at full res. The result was a file size of over 2 gigs. Transcoded this in MPEG Streamclip to a Prores codec so it's smaller now, but is that common for shots? I plan on editing in Premiere so maybe saving the AE render at full size was a mistake and I should just output everything in Prores (or some other codec?).

    Yes Daz renders AVI at very large data sizes. but if your going to use premiere or premiere elements you will see it will greatly reduce the finished film I save my Daz render avi's codex at Microsoft avi 100% uncompressed then
    I save my premiere project in mtl blu-ray 1080di with premiere pro cs5 and can take a 5 gig 10 second or 300 key frame animation and reduce it to under 200 MB in blu-ray HD and upload it direct to youtube or vimeo using the premiere share upload part of program.\
    you can reduce the film size down even more if you want to make a a 720 hd - flash,FLA codex. using premiere

    whats funny is if you think saved avi file sizes are large wait until you start putting together a folder of a 1000 - HD 1920 x1080 png images into single 24 key frame per-second animation. . :)

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  • NealFNealF Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Just gotta get me a bigger hard drive. :)
    Thanks.

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,235
    edited December 1969

    dkutzera said:
    Thanks. Glad I'm not the only one. I'm on a Mac so I'm looking for the best Apple codec. Right now looks like ProRes Lt.

    FWIW, I enter the 48 Hour film contest which involves making a 4 to 7 minute video. They allow Quicktime format, which is what I do, using Magix Movie Edit Pro on Windows. Here are the details of what they require:

    http://www.48hourfilm.com/filmmakers/quicktime-submissions.php

    The key points are:

    Compressor: DV/DVCPRO-NTSC

    "The file should be at least one gigabyte (1 GB). If it is not, it is likely that there is something wrong."

    A couple of clarifications: The contest runs in nearly 100 cities around the world, with several thousand films entered, so they are trying to keep it basic. Also, they show the films in commercial theaters, so I guess that requires more data than it might otherwise (one videographer friend thought 1 GB was way too big for a five minute SD video).

  • Sentinel-3Sentinel-3 Posts: 52
    edited December 1969

    You really should render to an image series. There are many advantages:

    1. You can render in stages.
    2. Blackouts don't make you start over
    3. You can still make your AVI if you must
    4. You can make WMVs from the image series for free using Picasa's slide show on time lapse setting.
    5. You can do post processing work on the image series with many programs

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    edited December 1969

    Kevin Sanderson said:
    I only render to video if I'm using OpenGL if I need a quick and dirty motion check. All other animations are rendered as a sequence of frames and I import the sequence in Vegas and render out what I want.


    so do I

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