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1. Re: Trimming to reduce size, yet exporting makes clip enormous. eg) import 11mb = export 500mb!? PE7
nealeh Jul 15, 2010 3:22 AM (in response to MuffinPie)1 person found this helpfulYou're not doing anything wrong. Your original MPEG file is already highly compressed. But PRE works with uncompressed footage (approximately 12GB per hour for standard DV-AVI. For media requiring compression (e.g. DVD) this takes place during the Share process. Note also that PRE re-renders the entire footage, whereas some products use 'smart encoding' that does not re-render unchanged footage.
From the description of what you are trying to do you may be better off staying with Windows Movie Maker for that initial edit. Then bring that footage into a PRE project when needed. For best results in PRE use WMM to export it as DV-AVI, but note that is not possible in Windows Live Movie Maker - grab the WMM 2.6 version from Microsoft.
Cheers,
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Neale
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2. Re: Trimming to reduce size, yet exporting makes clip enormous. eg) import 11mb = export 500mb!? PE7
the_wine_snob Jul 15, 2010 7:14 AM (in response to MuffinPie)1 person found this helpfulAs Neale points out, the file size increase is likely due to the exact Share/Export settings. Aspects, such as bit-rate, can make a major difference in the output file size. If one lowers the bit-rate, they can get quite close to the size of the original, but it the bit-rate is increased (quality goes up), then there is less compression taking place, so file sizes will increase. File size is dependent on Frame Size and on bit-rate.
The great, free utility, G-SPOT, will tell you the bit-rate of your original, and then you can find one that is close, when you go to Share/Export.
Good luck,
Hunt