Okay. This one's going to really show how dumb I am.

What format would be best to output (save) to if I wanted to e-mail a file created in Vegas Video without losing a bunch of resolution?

Here's the problem: An assignment editor in Denver calls me and wants me to go shoot a story. I do it. Normally I'd drive the tape to Denver (3 hours through the mountians, if it's not snowing).

Since it's really rare to have a story run more than a minute or two I was thinking I could edit the footage down in V V 3 and send it to them over the Internet. But a two minute video with sound comes out at almost two gigs in file size. I have dial-up service. I could drive to Denver and back a couple of times before a file that size got there over the Net.

Any suggestons? Or is this impossible to fix with today's technology?

Charles,

Do you have a server that you can upload a Quicktime (my choice for quality) file to? This would allow the station to download it. As you also stated, depending on the file size you could email it.

What file formats will the station accept?

Well, I have a server that hosts my Web page (http://www.centralcolorado.com/newcomb), but I wouldn't have a clue as to how I'd upload something to it. I'm computer stupid.

If I could get the file size down to a couple megs I could do it by e-mail. But I don't know if that's possible without hosing the quality/resolution, thus making it useless for ENG.

your best approach would be to save the file as a DVD compliant MPEG2. DVD compliance makes a pretty decent playback file. Then I suggest you get yourself an ftp address....these are available on the internet for free up to 12 meg, or something close to that. Once you upload your MPEG2 to the ftp site, the station can download it, at their speed and their convenience.

Okay, I'll see if I can figure out how to do that and then make a 2 minute file to see if it stays under 12 meg.

This place is great.

You might be a bit hard pressed to keep it under 12MB if you want to retain the resolution.

Who host's your web site (the server company)? They should have instructions on how to FTP files. It would be the same procedure as sending up HTML files.

There are programs out there that make FTP'ing easy. Listed below is the link to the program that I use:

http://www.bpftp.com/

Thanks, Paul.

Are you still planning a tript to CO for the Holidays?

Your welcome, I hope that it helped.

Yes we will be leaving for Denver on Thursday. Should be in Denver for about a week.

Why don't you get yourself a DVD burner, burn the DV file or
convert it MPEG2 if they can't and burn it on a DVD-data disk.
Then simply mail/FedEx em the disk. Much easier than any of
the other methods.

Most larger companies use big fast internet pipe and ftp servers
to move files across.

p.s. you could also try converting it to high quality mpeg2 and
burn that to a CD-R. You should be able to fit around 20 minutes
of high quality MPEG2 on it.

That'll work if it's a mini-feature or something like that, and I've done that. But for spot news/hard news there's a saying: "If it happened today it's news. If it happened yesterday it's history."

Yesterday I was rendering a clip for review. I was getting tired and decided to head for bed.

I selected File, Render as, named the file to render as a .avi , then sent VV on it's mission.......

I decided that I didn't want to wait (would "save as" instead), so I clicked on cancel.

Bada-bing the "process" is stuck in the mud. BTW, it wasn't stressing my PC because it was running at 2-7% CPU capacity.

The only way you could get out was give the process the 3 finger salute by "end process".

Any ideas? Past know issues?

-M$ XP Pro with updates as recent as 12-15-02
-Vegas Video 3.0 with last update

**Edit** The only thing I lost was the credits since last save.....**Edit**

Has this happened more then once-----???

Ending the rendering process mid-stream is a risky business, regardless of the software. You don't know what command is being executed, and, OS's being what they are can just decide to take a crap. The kind of complete bail-out you describe is always a possibility. Now, if you experience this every time, look for more concrete reasons, but, I'm not surprised you locked up.

Too late now.... but ALWAYS save right before starting a render.

The only process I have ever stopped is the wave form creation upon adding a clip to the timeline when I knew I didn't need the wave form.

<<<-- Originally posted by David Mintzer : Has this happened more then once-----??? -->>>

Nope, this was the first time I had even considered trying it.

The work wasn't that important, and was a rev of the final product going to the customer for input on a few things they wanted to have precisely as they described.

The credits were no loss, since they had not provided me all the info as of the moment of the foo-pah. I had saved all the changes I made prior to starting on the end credits.

I've been glued to a computer since a Intel 286 was the best you could get your hands on, and I've racked up quite a few losses to not saving over the years <;~)