22 Gigs, No way!

[Stormcloud23]

Hey guys, I need some help with Adobe Premiere Elements. I have a video that clocks in at about 44:32, however when i try to export it it becomes almost a 22gb file. That's completely ridiculous. What's the best mode of compression to keep the video at decent quality but cut down on the size a little. Thanks again.

 

[Flying-Emu]

Have you tried exporting to AVI? AVI seems to work fairly well for me. About one gig for every five minutes or so of footage.

 

[Stormcloud23]

Have you tried exporting to AVI? AVI seems to work fairly well for me. About one gig for every five minutes or so of footage.

Is it truly that big? Most of the movies i have are only around 600mb and they're twice as long as my video. It just seems odd.

 

[The Shade]

Have you tried exporting as a Quicktime Movie? That's what I usually do.

.mov

It kind of depends on what you need it for. Like, if you need to retain full quality or are okay compressing it, (which I'm guessing you are, since you're asking how to compress it.)

 

[Matronadena]

best would be to play with the compression rates and check what offer the the ideal file size you want, test even a clip to see the quality, if its not good enough, try going up alittle..

also your output format can play a major part in it size as well.

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

I wouldn't doubt if it's HD footage.

 

[Stormcloud23]

Ugh, now it's crashing halfway through the export... any fix for this?

 

[JediMB]

Have you tried exporting to AVI? AVI seems to work fairly well for me. About one gig for every five minutes or so of footage.

Is it truly that big? Most of the movies i have are only around 600mb and they're twice as long as my video. It just seems odd.

What you're doing is that you're exporting the video as a RAW avi file. Completely uncompressed.

Meanwhile, most avi files distributed online use either the DivX or XviD codec for compression.

 

[Flying-Emu]

Have you tried exporting to AVI? AVI seems to work fairly well for me. About one gig for every five minutes or so of footage.

Is it truly that big? Most of the movies i have are only around 600mb and they're twice as long as my video. It just seems odd.

What you're doing is that you're exporting the video as a RAW avi file. Completely uncompressed.

Meanwhile, most avi files distributed online use either the DivX or XviD codec for compression.

Yeah, forgot about DivX. I need to start using that thing more.

 

[Jak The Great]

Hey guys, I need some help with Adobe Premiere Elements. I have a video that clocks in at about 44:32, however when i try to export it it becomes almost a 22gb file. That's completely ridiculous. What's the best mode of compression to keep the video at decent quality but cut down on the size a little. Thanks again.

Download a DviX encoder. You will also have to download a plug in to allow it to play, but it can take a gig of information and compress it to a matter of Megs.

The other option is get an MPEG-4 encoder. That can reduce file sizes almost 8-1.

Finally the last option is to just export the 22G file and then bring that file into an Ipod conversion software (which converts to an MPEG-4). Handbrake works well for the conversion.

 

[Stormcloud23]

Alright I've fixed the compression issue but now premiere crashes at around 25% completion of the render. Anyone know what's happening here?

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

you're probably saving it as an uncompressed .mov file I use .WMV

 

[cleverlymadeup]

if you want something free as in speech and beer and it's a good codec too, i'll suggest xvid, you don't have to pay or "pay" for it like you do with divx and no annoying watermarks for free ones

also good encoding program is virtualdub

 

[Anarchemitis]

Have you tried exporting to AVI? AVI seems to work fairly well for me. About one gig for every five minutes or so of footage.

AVI is a container, it needs a compressor or else it will be a decompressed AVI, which can be up to 2GB per minute.

I found out a delicious video file type that does HD, and excellent quality, at the expense of some sound quality, but not much. It compresses very well, about 10MB per minute, depending on how visually complex the video is.
Use Premiere Pro, go to File>Export>Adobe Media Encoder *Encoder Dialogue Box*
Use these settings (For HD 720p)

• Format: H.264
  *down some*
  TV Standard: NTSC
  Width: 1280
  Height: 720
  Feild Order: None (Progressive)
  Aspect Ratio: 16:9 (Widescreen)
  Level: 3.1
  
  Bitrate Encoding: VBR-2, 2 pass
  Target Bitrate: 5
  Maximum Bitrate: 6
  
  Go to (Audio)
  
  Audio Codec: AAC
  Quality: High
  
  Go to (Multiplexer)
  
  >3GPP

These settings are optimal for an HD Youtube video. The output format is an extension called a 3GP, looking like this: Videoname.3gp. It's designed for Cell Phones, but it's very versatile. For in-compter playing, use Quicktime.