Followed how-to guide, but final file size seems huge

[Houk]

Hey, long-time reader first time poster here. So I just finished my very first shiny new video, and everything went great (thanks to the awesome guides here). However, following all the instructions in the how-to guide, I ended up with an MPEG video that's just under 3 minutes long and just over 100megs big. Doesn't seem right to me. So I'm wondering where I might have gone wrong, and what I can do to cut down the size without cutting down the quality too much. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Scintilla]

However, following all the instructions in the how-to guide, I ended up with an MPEG video that's just under 3 minutes long and just over 100megs big. Doesn't seem right to me. So I'm wondering where I might have gone wrong, and what I can do to cut down the size without cutting down the quality too much. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Reduce your resolution and target bitrate?

And/or switch from MPEG to XviD AVI.

[Houk]

Would I use Premier to encode it to Xvid AVI format then? When I exported it originally, I used the Huffyuv setting and ended up with a 1.25gig file. Then I used TMPEnc to make that an MPEG. So would I just cut out this last step and use Premier to finish the project?

[Scintilla]

Would I use Premier to encode it to Xvid AVI format then? When I exported it originally, I used the Huffyuv setting and ended up with a 1.25gig file. Then I used TMPEnc to make that an MPEG. So would I just cut out this last step and use Premier to finish the project?

No, keep the HuffYUV file. Use something like VirtualDubMod to encode the XviD AVI.

You can find a guide for XviD encoding here:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/xvid.html

[Houk]

Ohh I didn't even think of going back to VirtualDubMod to re-encode the finished file. Thanks very much!