My exported videos are much larger, and then similar files I exported in the past

I recently recorded a funeral, and when I exported it, the file was much larger than similar videos, that I've done in the past. The duration of the project is about 44 minutes long. When I tried to export it as a Quicktime size is 9.35 GB. I exported it a mpeg and the size is passed to 7.8 GB.

I recorded a music festival last year and the same video length would be about 3 GB in the form of Quicktime. And they were smaller that the mpeg files came to be.

Or files had too much editing done for them. No fancy filters or extra 3rd party add-ons have been used. Some transitions, a subtitle or two and maybe a still image.

I tried to change the codes and export of settings, but not a lot of difference. For some reason any the GoPro Cinefrom codec came default one, but who gave me a size and huge audio and no video.

I changed several times and still can't get a decent file size. I can't even fit it onto a DVD so I can give it to my client!

I got a few gigs to mount and export. And I can't work with these large files. They cannot be burned to a disc, and they take so long to download on Youtube that they tend to get partially disturbed and let me it start all over again.

Help!

It is quite possible that you have exported a H.264 file into a QuickTime wrapper, so that it is released as a .mov file. I avoid this, remove the mix of QuickTime and just export using the H.264 format which provides a .mp4 which plays universally pretty much anywhere. It would be for the digital distribution, for example, transfer or give someone a USB key. For a DVD, you would export as MPEG - 2 DVD of first directly, do not go to any other format first.

To download on YouTube in particular, choose H.264 and the YouTube preset that best matches the video source like Meg had shown in a previous post.

Back to DVD and 'less files you are after' - DVD should ALWAYS be DVD MPEG-2. You cannot export anything else first for use on a DVD. Well, you could... but still would like to convert it to MPEG-2 DVD anyway, since the DVD must be MPEG-2. Always. Period. So forget QuickTime or H.264 to that effect.

When you export a video to a DVD (or export any file for that matter), how to control the size of the file is with bitrate. As the size of the DVD disc is fixed, plus the video then liked the baud rate to be used to fit your content on the disc. For any video up to 60 minutes, you can encode at 8.0 and be safe. Over an hour, then you would like to use a bitrate calculator to find the best settings.

As a general rule, you could use 560/minutes bitrate =. For example, 560/120 = 4.66, encode using 2 - pass VBR 4.5 as the target or 'average' bit misses and no worries, it will fit. I round down a little safety margin of the menu load. You can use a bitrate calculator, but you must understand the correct values to plug into each box - spoil one of these values and the whole calculation comes out wrong end!

DVD - HQ: Bitrate & GOP calculator

Thank you

Jeff Pulera

Safe Harbor computers

Tags: Premiere

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