Rendering options

David-Anegbu wrote on 11/21/2022, 5:39 AM

I am using movie studio 23 and can only find very few rendering options. I make youtube video and the target is smaller sized but clean videos. I noticed I cannot make mp4 videos, they seem to fit the target. I see .avi, which is the first option, but it makes really large videos at 1280/720. I made a 40s video, and it was 1.5gb, the 10 minutes video was close to 18gb, I cannot upload that to youtube. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

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AAProds wrote on 11/21/2022, 6:09 AM

@David-Anegbu

I noticed I cannot make mp4 videos, they seem to fit the target.

Sure you can. Use the File>Export Movie>Video as MPEG 4 option.

If you want to export at something other than your movie settings (say your movie settings are 1920x1080 and you want to export at 2560x1440) you can set you video resolution using the three dots button in the main export dialogue. If you choose at least 1440 as the video height eg 2560x1440 (16:9) or 1920x1440 (4:3)), Youtube will encode using the VP9 video codec (better than H264).

Click on the Advanced button and adjust the bitrates as you need to achieve the file size you want. I set the Max bitrate at 25% than the average bitrate. You can see the (approximate) estimated file size back on the main Export screen in the format description window.

All my forum comments are based on or refer to my System 1.

My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.

System 1

Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher

Power supply: 850W Cooler Master (should have got modular)

CPU: Intel i7 13700K running at 3400mhz, cooled by a Kraken 2x140mm All In One liquid cooler.

RAM: 64gb (2x32gb sticks) G.Skill "Ripjaws" DDR4 3200Mhz

GPU 1: iGPU UHD 770

GPU 2: NVidia RTX 3060Ti Windforce 8gb

C drive: NVME 500gb

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 v22H2

CPU: i5-750 at 2670mhz with 12gb RAM

Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP

Hard drives: C Drive 256gb SSD, various other HDDs.

Monitor: Dell 22"/56cm, 1680x1050, 35 pixels/cm

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

VPX 12

johnebaker wrote on 11/21/2022, 6:33 AM

@David-Anegbu

Hi

In addition to @AAProds comment.

To see all the MP4 export format options check the Display all option in the export dialog box as shown below - t all available options will then appear in the drop down.

What is your source video resolution and bitrate - if you do not know how to find this download and install MediaInfo and analyse one of the videoclips and post the results, see this tutorial on how to setup MediaInfo and analyse a video clip for all the data required.

What is the recording device or software used for the video - eg iPhone, camera, screen roecing using OBS etc?

John EB
Forum Moderator

VPX 16, Movie Studio 2025, and earlier versions 2015 and 2016, Music Maker Premium 2024.

PC - running Windows 11 23H2 Professional on Intel i7-8700K 3.2 GHz, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060 6GB 192-bit GDDR6, 1 x 1Tb Sabrent NVME SSD (OS and programs), 2 x 4TB (Data) internal HDD + 1TB internal SSD (Work disc), + 6 ext backup HDDs.

Laptop - Lenovo Legion 5i Phantom - running Windows 11 23H2 on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB DDR4-SDRAM, 512GB SSD, 43.9 cm screen Full HD 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD 630 iGPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB GDDR6)

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