My premiere files are so huge!

[Rockguykev]

A 4 minutes avi with no sound came out to 720 mb, yikes! The frame rate is set at 29.97, the NTSC standard but the resolution is like 720x460 or something huge like that. If I make the file like this and then juse TMPEGEnc to convert it to an mpeg can I lower the resolution that way or is there a way to do it in Premiere 6?

Thanks,
Kev

[glubu]

of course you can change the resolution in premiere 6.0, when you export the video go to settings, you have the general settings, audio and video settings, in the video settings you can chose the resolution, frames, the codec and other things...
and did you try to export your video as mpg with premiere? this way you don't need to covert the video with another program. I think with premiere 6.0 you can export videos as mpgs, but don't ask me how, i didn't find out yet )

[Rockguykev]

I got the resolution to change now but that hasn't done much good since it is still uncompressed. I have tried exporting as an mpeg but haven't found out how either. I have found though that if you export it as an avi, Nero 5.5 will automatically convert it when you try to make a VCD. Unfortunately my C drive has a bad sector and my system likes to crash whenever I try to convert mpegs or unzip large files... I'm left using a 2 gig partition which is sadly not where I installed Nero

[glubu]

you can also convert your files into divX files (mpg4) with premiere, than you don't need to convert them again. And you just need a few 100 mb of free diskspace. I don't know if the quality of divX is the same quality as the vcd. just try it. of course you need the divx codec to convert the video file. you can download the codec here: http://www.divx-digest.com in the download or sofware section