How to Render & Format Digital Video

Video Transcript

"Hey, welcome back. I hope you checked out my website -- pllightstudios.com. Here at Expert Village, we only provide you the best stuff. I have been doing this for a long time. You have been hanging in there and I appreciate it. There's one thing -- we are almost at the end here of making your professional looking video -- that you need to be aware of. That's called rendering. Rendering is a process of once you have lined up your clips, titles and everything, you audio edit it -- is the process of telling your computer that now this is the format I need to go to. Whether are going to the web, DVD... you have to render. Tell the computer to make that video that particular size and format that you need to kick it out to. Let me back up a bit. You have to understand that in digital video, we have the power to output in any way we want to. We can put it on the web, stream it, make DVD's of it, we can do all kinds of stuff. We can even export it back out to our cameras to show on a television screen if we half to. So, rendering is really specific on your computer. The faster your computer, the faster your rendering time. That goes back to -- if you are in the market for a computer, try to find the fastest computer your money can buy. If not, it's okay. It just means you may have long dinner while your computer is rendering out the video segment. In this case, I have this edited out and I'm just going to hit 'share' and I have different outlets that I can do this to. I can email this clip, I can go to DVD, I can throw it to my iPod, I can put it on the web or back to my video camera. The main thing is to be aware of the format and the Kodak (how it is compressed) to where you are going. This a complicated area, but not very complicated. It is the science part I was talking to you about that you have to be aware of. We will go into more depth at another time, but just remember -- rendering is important."