Video quality and size problems, Need help!!

[Ueland]

Hi, so i'm working on a machinima, and i was just going to render a little part of the movie to look at it, to check the quality, size etc, so i rendered a 20 sec long clip from the machinima and it was 2gb, ofc i had the quality at the best. and i still cant make the quality as good as many other movies i have seen on warcraftmovies.

So my question is.. how do i make the quality good, and still keep it at a low size?

I'm using Sony Vegas Pro 9 (Full) btw.

[AlexEgeskog]

You need codecs and encode an uncompressed file. There are plenty of guides out there.
Search for H.264 etc

[Ueland]

I feel like a retard now - .- i cant finde it . can you maby give me a link or something?

Btw, can you check out my other threat? i have read some of your guides, and maby you can help me

[AlexEgeskog]

Rendering Guide:
http://www.mmorpgforum.net/showthread.php?t=65417

Cannot answer the other question though, I don't use that program

[Ueland]

How do you add objects like crates to your machinima then ? and thanks for the guide btw

[AlexEgeskog]

I use private server to produce my movies. I just spawn a crate if I need one

[Ueland]

Oki :p not that a privat server can help me out whit that :/ i kinda need a object to be in the main characters hand... back to google then - .-

[AlexEgeskog]

Think you can model swap a sword or something into a crate :p

Argh... too much work I guess

[Ueland]

I'm no handy man whit this privat server thing :p