Adobe Premiere Video Compression Question

[dazndan04]

Hi, sorry if this has been answered in the forums but I couldn't find the right answer. My problem is that I am having trouble compressing a video I get out or Adobe Premiere. My friend and I are making a music video for another friend, so we recoreded on his Canon camera and had Premiere capture it. The clip is very short, only 2 minutes in length. After the short editing and music syncing with an mp3 audio, I exported it through Premiere with their basic Microsoft avi encoder. The resulting file was 451 mb in length, way to long for a short 2 min clip, so I compressed it in Virtual Dub with xvid codec, and lame mp3 128 kbs at 32000khz with the resulting file being 43.8 mb. I still think that is too big for short 2 min clip and would like to compress it to a smaller size, like say somewhere between the 10-20mb range, because it is only a 2 min clip after all.

[daamon]

Hi dazndan04,

The source file would have been DV AVI, which is approximately 13.5Gb per hour. So 2 minutes of DV AVI (the basic Microsoft encoder you first used) would be around 450Mb - the exact size you got.

You've got Windows XP, load up the output (edited) DV AVI into Windows Movie Maker and pick a resolution / bitrate combination that gets you the filesize you want, to get a WMV file.

Or you could stick with Xvid bu reduce the resolution - this will reduce the need for a higher bitrate and so produce a smaller file size.

The basic principle to bear in mind though, is that quality is directly related to bitrate, and bitrate directly relates to filesize. So, the smaller the file size the lower the quality.

Don't be surprised if your file of 10 - 20Mb looks crappy.

[edDV]

Keep the full DV 450MB DV-AVI clip for future archive. It will fit on a CD after all.

[dazndan04]

thanks for the help, last question is: how do you reduce the resolution size in xvid?

thanks for the help guys

[daamon]

thanks for the help, last question is: how do you reduce the resolution size in xvid?

Don't know - never encoded to Xvid (or Divx). When you select (highlight) the Xvid codec in VirtualDub (Video -> Compression), does the "Configure" button become available? If so, try that...

thanks for the help guys

No problem.