4 Replies Latest reply: Nov 22, 2014 7:50 PM by R Neil Haugen RSS

    Output video too big: 42 MB/min

    Carlos___ Community Member

      Hi everyone.

       

      I'm a beginner with Premiere Pro, and I'm struggling on reasonably reducing the size of my export video and maintaining quality. I've tried H.264, FLV, WMP and Quicktime (see attached image).

       

      The source video is quite simple (see attached image). I put my camera on a table and filmed myself speaking, with a mainly white background. The camera is a , and the original file size is 77 MB. The equipment is a Sony DCR-DVD610 camcorder.

      Using Premiere Pro, I just added some opacity effects (at the beginning and end), 1 or 2 short subtitles, and 1 or 2 images appearing for a few seconds. Audio is present.

       

      Since I was trying to reduce the bitrate, the subtitles get very ugly and difficult to read. Concerning it, I could delete the subtitles and add them afterwards, building a MKV maybe. At least, I wouldn't have unreadable subtitles. Still don't know how to create this MKV though.

       

      Anyway, would you recommend me some settings regarding compressing video size and maintaining its quality?

       

      Thanks,

      Carlos.

       

      Settings:

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      Original video:

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        • 1. Re: Output video too big: 42 MB/min
          Carlos___ Community Member

          So far, the following was the best config I got (images). I mounted it from preset H.264 - NTSC DV Widescreen, with VBR 2 pass.

          I got from 77 MB to 27 MB, and quality is acceptable. But still, I think I could have something better.

           

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          • 2. Re: Output video too big: 42 MB/min
            R Neil Haugen Community Member

            There are a few people on here that can ... if they see this ... give good advice on shrinking output files while maintaining or actually increasing playback quality especially for web-based work. The questions will be about your intended usages ... and I know if there are multiple uses you're thinking of, you'll get advice to put out a best-quality original and then take that and export specific settings for say DVD on one hand and Vimeo or YouTube on the other.

             

            Neil

            • 3. Re: Output video too big: 42 MB/min
              Carlos___ Community Member

              Hi Neil,

               

              Indeed, I should have mentioned my intentions with these movies.

              The idea is a 6 short movies as a message to someone. So, there isn't small details that would require high definition, in the other hand I am not sending a 240p either.

              I won't use mail neither youtube, but dropbox. Size isn't really a matter, but as they will be together in a zip file, I wouldn't want to go over 100 MB (total).

               

              Cheers,

              Carlos.

              • 4. Re: Output video too big: 42 MB/min
                R Neil Haugen Community Member

                Thanks ... Jim Simon or shooternz or several others could and hopefully will give some good suggestions ... I still get puzzled by those settings at times ...

                 

                Neil