Exporting clips on Adobe Premiere

[doughboy]

Ok, a simple question, when you export clips on Premiere, why are the files so goddamn huge?? I'm using the DV setting, 720 by 480, and a 10 minute clip is about 2 gigs. Is it just me, or is that astronomically high?? Does anyone know if im doing something wrong, or any way to make them smaller without quality reduction?? Cuz I would like to burn these clips on CD, and is there any way to export it into a MPEG format with good quality?? I appreciate anyone's help. Thanks. Later days.

[EricB]

DV video has very light compression. You need to compress with an mpeg encoder to burn VCD, SVCD, or DVD.

If you are using Premiere 6.0, the included mpeg encoder is horrible. So you either use a plugin like CinemaCraft, LSX, Panasonic, or you can frameserve to TMPGenc. I use the frameserving.

The new Premiere 6.5 has a MainConcept encoder included which is very good.

[doughboy]

Thanks for the info, but where can I get these MPEG plugins, can I download them somewhere for free? Converting using TMPGenc, does that take long? Anyone else with more insight on this?? Thanks for the help.

[doughboy]

Oh yeah, and one more question, if I convert the clip using TMPGenc, will the picture quality decrease?? Thanks again.

[EricB]

You've got some reading to do! Check the forum and you'll find a lot more info. Plugins can be found on the web. Yes any compression decreases the quality of the source, but that doesn't mean the output can't look great. DVD mpegs have a pretty high degree of compression.

Length of time for any compression is dependent on your system (processor speed, RAM, hard drive speed), the encoder you use (Cinema Craft is one of the faster ones), and the format you encode to (VCD, SVCD, DVD).