Vegas 5- huge files.

not too sure about vegas, because i have never used it, but you could always save it, then put it through windows movie maker, since its real simple to reduce the size in that.

yeah, but i would like to keep the footage visable, not one big blur

well you're exporting in uncompressed avi. so yeah, that happens.

yea u gotta throw it through a program to compress it... but i think vegas should have that in there. just search for compress

"i just found out how to change the resolution and i had it at 360 x 240 and it was still 281 kb."

do you mean 281 000? causei f not 281kb is buttfuck nothing.

and yea obviously your files are going to be big your working with raw video footage...but my question to you is why the fuck would you want to compress it all in the first place? if you want to get it on the internet use moviemaker or something to compress it...it does a good job with compression and compatibility. working with video will eat up your hard drive dude trust me. our last years video took up atleast 30gb on my drive. had to move all those raw clips to dvds for storage

no, you cant fit 3-4 gigs on a cd, a dvd yes

dvds arent just meant for video, they can hold around 4.4 gigs of data, so if you burn a dvd with just files, you can access them just as if they were on a cd.

Don't use avi for quality, use dv, the original compression of the video. second, get an external harddrive so file size is not an issue.

i actually ment 281 mb. sry for the confusion. i have a 120 gb external harddrive so i dont need to worry about it taking up space on my comp.

all im trying to do is keep good quality, and still have it fit on the internet somehow. the files are even too big for putfile/youtube.

well the compressor with vegas is pretty shitty. download sorenson squeeze. you will get great web compressions with it.