What Premiere Settings to use?

[IPFreely]

Hey guys,
I'm new to this stuff and could really use some help with premiere & VCD's. I'm capturing 1 hour mpeg1's with my capture card (of simpsons ) and editing out the commercials: comes to about 28 minutes. Figure I can get 4 or 5 episodes per disc.

The original capture size is usually around 450-600M. After I take out the commercials and render the size is 3or4x's as big! What gives?! What settings should I be using?

I'm rendering out:
- 352x240 (NTSC)
- .mpg 75% quality
- 44hz 16bit audio
- 29.97fps
- Data rate: recompress (off)

I like the quality that is being captured and am trying not to "double compress" everything, just take out the commercials. Any help is appreciated.

[vcdfreak]

Try to frameserve to TMPGEnc (read the tutorial in this forum). Usually 1 min of video requires 10MB of disk space for MPEG-1 VCD format.

[IPFreely]

hi vcdfreak - yes i realize that it's about 1min:10M for VCD so that's why i was wondering what settings to use i.e. - my resulting renders are ridiculously large!

what my real concern was that in editing out the commercials, that means i have to render out the movie in premiere - and i don't want to have to re-render it AGAIN in another program. so what settings are you guys using in premiere?

thanks!

[vcdfreak]

That's why you need to frameserving and export frames to TMPGEnc.

Encoder comes with premiere usually behave quite differently. I assume you are using the Ligos plug-in which allows you to set a lots of parameter. I hope you are exporting to MPEG-1 instead of MPEG-2 format which will blow up the file size a lot!