smaller size to upload on vimeo

[dada]

Hello Everyone

I made my Demo reel in After Effect, 5 min reel 5.25m to be exact (i dont got AE file with me right now)
I render that in Quick time MPEG 4 High quality 24 FPS, HD 1280x720 audio 44.1 and now its 634MB
and i render the Half HD (Sd) version same as above and its 234 MB

Now I want to convert them in smaller size and H.264 format to upload them on Vimeo

Please tell me which convertor should i used and what setting should i apply to get smaller file size
I tried quick time pro mp4 h264 but the size of SD is like 72 MB man i have see peolple vid files and they are not more then 25 mb there, even the Hd ones are only 35~50mb there. Plus those SD vid got really great result no pixel/color breaking etc so

Please guide me what to do

Regards

[Baldrick]

5 minute in 35MB in HD quality? Nope.

But you can try a x264 gui like vidcoder / handbrake or megui.

[dada]

Hello thank you for replying

So what should be the minimum size of HD 5min and SD 5 min with good quality (i dont want artifacts of compression)

Also can u please share what setting should i follow to upload for Vimeo both for SD and HD

Regards

[intracube]

The bitrate you need to reach a certain quality is very dependent on the content. Noisy, hand-held video with a lot of movement will need a much higher bitrate compared to clean, static or slow moving video.

'High quality' is subjective...

For fairly clean, mixed content source (using h264), I'd aim for roughly 2Mbit/sec SD and 6Mbit/sec 720p.

Do a set of tests on a short (representative) clip and judge the quality for yourself. Video hosting sites like YouTube/Vimeo re-compress whatever you upload - so there isn't much point spending time and bandwidth uploading very high bitrate videos.

[Slipster]

'High quality' is subjective...

For fairly clean, mixed content source (using h264), I'd aim for roughly 2Mbit/sec SD and 6Mbit/sec 720p.

Indeed, and even then, subjective quality is vastly altered by which encoder options you use and how you use them. For example, my personal experiments with x264 show at least a two-fold increase in subjective quality per bitrate by going from a Baseline profile to a High 3.1 profile with all 'bells and whistles' enabled and tweaked to best effect. This dropped me down from 2Mbps to 1.33Mbps for SD material with significantly improved picture quality at just over half the bitrate.

There are quite literally thousands of different combinations of valid encoder settings, some of which won't be supported by some playback hardware, and many of which greatly improve picture quality with some source material, so asking for an ideal bitrate is a bit like asking someone how long a piece of string you're holding in your hand is without showing it to them.