vegas (again!) avi file bigger than original...

[jonx2]

hi,
im new to video editing,my first experience was with a dv camera filming my sisterinlaws wedding,and using vegas to edit and render it,i was quite happy with the result.
ive now got a couple of downloaded avi files which are about 600mb each,ive used vegas again to edit them together but when i render to a dv fullscreen avi file,its gonna end up being about 20gig in total!.
i dont undersatnd how my camera footage can be smaller than these avi files.
any suggestions for settings for a smaller final file,but keeping the quality,i want to author with dvd architect.

thanx in advance.

jonx

[edDV]

20GB of DV format is just less than 90 minutes. A MiniDV tape holds 13.5GB.

What is it that you don't get?

[guns1inger]

Edit with vegas, output as mpeg 2 (use the DVDa templates in Vegas). Output should be around 4GB. You then load this into DVDa for authoring.

[edDV]

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ive now got a couple of downloaded avi files which are about 600mb each,ive used vegas again to edit them together but when i render to a dv fullscreen avi file,its gonna end up being about 20gig in total!.

The files you downloaded were probably heavily compressed. Importing them to a DV project results in the files being uncompressed to DV (or fully uncompressed if you apply filters). The idea is you then edit and recompress the result to the format you want. If a DVD is the goal you would "render as" DVD MPeg2 as guns1inger said.