Things You'll Need:
- Hard drive with the capacity to store video files
- At least 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB preferred
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Step 1
Make sure every video element is queued. Review the video software timeline to check the location of titles, clips, transitions and effects.
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Step 2
Preview the playback. Your software will allow you to play your movie, or even selected scenes from your movie, in a smaller window. Look for any glitches: transition miscues, audio that's slightly out of synch, titles out of alignment and so forth.
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Step 3
Choose your video rendering format. This will depend on whether you intend to render the movie for iPod, to DVD, to camera or for playback on the Web. Each format requires a different CODEC (video compression format). Video rendered for DVD won't play back on the Web. Most current software allows you to choose the media rather than the CODEC.
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Step 4
Render the movie. Feel free to tweak the compression settings and render your video (or sections of your video) more than once to see what settings will give you the best combination of quality and playback. More compression increases playback speed but decreases image and sound quality. Less compression makes the image pop but slows the playback or causes it to skip.








