How Do You Render And Format Digital Video?
Video rendering can often be the most challenging aspect of the video production process. None of your digital mojo will matter if the video doesn’t play back smoothly. Rendering involves choosing the final video size, playback speed and compression. Most current software makes the process easier by choosing the best format for you, but you still need to know the process. Make sure every video element is queued. Review the video software timeline to check the location of titles, clips, transitions and effects. 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. 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 f
